Operator's promises accepted
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ail A North Wales
owner-driver who was caught run
ning without an Operator's Licence, falsifying tachograph records and failing to take sufficient weekly rest has been granted an 0-licence by North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna.
Derek Jones appeared before the TC at a Trafford public inquiry to apply for a new national 0-licence for two vehicles based at Caernarfon.
Appearing for Jones, Tim England said that until 1991 he had worked for his father and drove one of his father's vehicles. When he married in 1991 his father gave him the vehicle that he had been driving, but Jones failed to apply for a separate 0-licence. Following a Vehicle Inspectorate investigation, Jones and his father were convicted of hours and tachograph offences; as a result Jones realised that he required an 0 licence of his own. England told Mulvenna that the hours and tachograph offences were committed on journeys of less than 50 miles in February and March 1998. There was no question of Jones or his father being over-tired.
Giving assurances that he would never commit such offences again, Jones said that having earned his CPC he realised that it was too much of a risk. For the time being his father had taken his vehicle back and specified it on his 0licence; Jones had been working for his father.
Granting the licence, Mulvenna said he would require a licence performance appraisal within six months, with particular reference to tachographs. He added that this was Jones' one chance.