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Speed limiter tampering sees Singh licence trimmei
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Speed limiter convictions and drivers' hours infrin gements have cost Tipton based Gurmej Singh Tour one of his vehicles for three weeks.
Toor, trading as Singh Transport, with a licence for four vehicles, had been called before West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry.
Traffic examiner Marion Wilson said that following Toor's conviction on three speed' limiter offences, she had checked three months' tachograph charts for four vehicles and nine drivers. There were 36 infringements on the 225 charts she examined, a failure rate of 16%, with four drivers having committed offences.
One driver had violated speed limits in three vehicles on 20 occasions.
He had said he was aware the speed limiter was defective in two of the vehicles but had not reported it. In addition a number of tachograph charts were missing. In reply to Patrick Sadd, for Toor, Wilson said she believed that the driver concerned had been tampering with the speed limiters in some way When interviewed, transport manager Abinder Singh had said that there was no disciplinary procedure in place; the tachograph charts were not sent out for analysis; and they had been lax in checking charts due to a move of premises.
Driver Taygar Singh was said to have taken insufficient break after hours' driving on four occasions and insufficient daily rest on one occasion. He told the IC that it was his first driving job and the mis takes had all been at the beginning of his employment.
He had not been given any specific instruction on the hours and tachograph rules and had just picked it up as he went a Sadcl said all the driverE now been reminded of obligations and were being on a tachograph course. worksheets had been ii duced and there was now a tem to ensure that tachog charts were handed in. Ct were also being sent for ou analysis.
The drivers were paid rate with no overtime payrr so there was no incentivi them to work beyond the lc permitted hours, he added.
The TO ordered the ye Inspectorate to carry out ther examination of the f tachograph charts in 2003.