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Wrexham haulier Wed Parry has had his 0-licence suspended for two weeks by Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon, who also cut the authorisation from four vehicles to three.
Parry had been called before the IC because of concern over his maintenance records and breaches of the tachograph regulations.
Vehicle examiner David Collings said that since Parry's appearance at a previous public inquiry in November 1999, four prohibition notices had been imposed on his vehicles. The inspection records appeared to show that the stated inspection periods had been extended up to 13 weeks. There was a driver defect reporting system but rectification work was not being recorded.
Producing further inspection records, Andrew Woolfall, for Parry, said the longest gap was eight weeks and that related to a vehicle which had been off the road for bodywork repairs.
Collings agreed that none of the prohibitions related to maintenance. An examination of three months' tachograph charts had revealed a number of discrepancies, he added. One driver had been perfect; one had a number of centre-field offences and had left a chart In the tachograph for more than 24 hours; a third idso had a number of centre-field offences and a week's charts were missing. Collings pointed out that Parry also had a number of centre field convictions.
"Parry Is adamant that the missing charts were handed to the VI but they cannot be traced," said Woolfall.
Collings agreed that hours offences had all but disappeared since the last public Inquiry.
Parry said he had been doing his best. ills wife had been checking the tachograph charts and had concentrated on heurs offences. The charts were low being sent for outside analysis.
The IC asked that tho inspection period be reduced to four weeks and told the VI to check again in August.