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Farm building firm's boss promises to seek advice on hours and tachos

11th October 2007
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A WOMAN WHO employed her farmer husband and other farmers as drivers has admitted fiddling tachograph charts. She now has to wait to see what action will be taken against the two-vehicle licence held by her buildings supply operation.

Corwen, North Wales-based Lena Hughes, trading as Steel Kit Farm Building Supplies, had been called before Welsh Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones alongside three of the company's drivers, including her husband, Dylan Hughes,.

Senior traffic examiner Simon Jenkins said an examination of the tachograph charts revealed apparent offences. When interviewed, Lena Hughes had admitted falsifying tachograph charts by entering her name on the centrefield of charts when drivers had carried on back to the operating centre after running out of hours A total of 18,126km were unrecorded.

Charts had been deliberately withdrawn before the end of shifts in an attempt to indicate that the correct amount of rest had been taken. Jenkins reported driving periods of up to 16hr 7min and duty time of up to 19hr 32min.

Lena Hughes said she accepted that things had not been done correctly. The only driver now was her husband, with other work being subcontracted when necessan,,. She intended to take advice about drivers' hours and tachographs from a former traffic examiner.

She told the TC that she couldn't find the missing tachograph records. She had put her name on false charts when drivers Summary wanted to get home quickly: both the drivers and herself had been at fault. She agreed that charts had been falsified to indicate doublemanned journeys when they had been single-manned, and that the drivers had been paid for the number of hours worked.

The TC is to announce his decision in writing.


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