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Five offences in four years lead TC to trim 0-licence

14th June 2001, Page 16
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Keywords : Tachograph, Tachometer

Five offences in four years have led to the licence held by Blandford, Dorset-based Taymix Transport being curtailed from 40 vehicles to 25 for one month, Managing director Christopher Taylor told Western Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown that the firm had improved its systems considerably following a series of offences.

Of an occasion in 1997 when a vehicle was found to have loose wheelnuts and a loose steering linkage, Taylor said: 'When the vehicle was found to have loose wheelnuts the driver tightened them up at the scene."

He blamed a 1998 offence for failing to have a tachograph put through its six-yearly calibration on "haphazard" bookkeeping.

"Following that, we introduced a system which made sure they were all done when they should be," he said. "My daughters deal with that now. The tachograph was calibrated the same day but didn't need any adjustment because it was in perfect working order."

An offence in 1999 concerned a defective part on a vehicle; Taylor said the manufacturer had recognised this was a common fault and had modified the part. He added that all affected vehicles had had the part replaced with a modified component.

For the company, Chris Over said it had been censured in January this year because one of its flagged-out vehicles, which was registered in Holland, did not have an 0-licence or tax disc. However, he believed the company had been wrongly advised to plead guilty to those offences.

Taylor confirmed that all the company's vehicles were now registered in this country. He said an

offence concerning an axle overload arose

because an animal feed tanker had been overfilled. There was no way the driver could have known of the axle overload from the way the vehicle handled and there were no public weighbridges on his route. "I had a serious word with the driver over that," Taylor added.

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Locations: Dorset

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