"Clueless" haulier loses licence
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A Bolton haulier who was said "not to have a clue" about the 0-licensing system has been disqualified
from holding an 0-licence for three years.
Llaquat Ali Majeed, trading as LAM Haulage, of Bolton, appeared before North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell. The previous week the Leigh magistrates has ordered Maieed and three of his drivers to pay fines and costs totalling £12,980 for unauthorised use and a series of tachograph offences.
PG Grahame Robinson, of Greater Manchester Police, said that the offences had been discovered when tachograph records were compared with weighbridge tickets.
Majeed had operated four vehicles during May and June when he was only licensed for two. Many charts for three of the vehicles were missing and on other charts the driver's name had been over-written, disguising the true driver of the truck.
"If all the charts had been produced I feel that a more serious picture would have emerged," said Robinson. "I got the
Impression that Maleed produces what he wants mete sec"
PC David Newton said that when four of Majeeds vehicles were stopped in May one of the drivers had got out of the cab and run away—it turned out that he was disqualified from driving.
Madeed told the Inquiry that he was unaware that this driver, and a second driver, had been disqualified. He had pet additional vehicles on the road after sub milling an application to increase the licence to six vehicles as he had had no problems with the VI.
He added that earlier in the year Merseyside police had seized six weeks' tachograph charts which a driver had kept in the cab. He conceded that ha had also been convicted of unauthorised use in August and promised: "for the future, I will keep everything spot on."
For Majeed, Jane Hedges said: "He has realised he has got things wrong and he wants to put them right in the future. On his behalf I can only apologise."
The it concluded: "It is clear that your client has not got a clue about the operator licensing system. To say that his knowledge of the system can he mitten on the back of a postage stamp is rather overstating it."