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magistrates have ierturned a Deputy :timing Authority's revocain of the licence of a driver nvicted of falsifying tachoaph charts.
Ian Umplehy. of Whinnor, I.eeds, appealed against orth Eastern DLA Norman oody's revocation of his licence last December. le magistrates substituted a months' suspension.
For the Traffic Area, ichael Shepherd said the de'crate falsification of tachoaph charts was a serious fence carrying a maximum te of ‘2,000 or two years' iprisonment.
Umpleby had been sent a truing letter in 1978 about nvictions between 1976 and 78.
He was given a further timing at a public inquiry in pril 1979 following his conviction on a series of offences involving excessive hours and a failure to keep records.
Ile was sent a further warning letter in July [984 following overloading and three speeding convictions in heavy goods vehicles.
In August 1985, he was tined )2378 on 15 offences of falsifying tachograph charts,
The last warning letter sent to Umpleby had been in the middle of the spate of those latest offences, yet despite that he committed a timber seven offences.
In revoking the licence, Moody said he had no alternative in view of the serious nature of the offences. Limpidly had received previous warnings and he was unable to take a lenient course.
For Umpleby, Stephen Kirkbright said that he had worked for meat and livestock him her EWS Transport.
An investigation by a traffic examiner had revealed that all three of the company's drivers had committed offences. In Umplehy's case, on 15 occasions the odometer readings on the tachograph charts had not matched the distance traces.
Distances varying between 50 and 199kin had not been recorded and they represented excess driving time of between 45 minutes and twoand-a-half-hours.
The drivers had transported live animals from markets and they were particularly busy at the time the offences were committed.
Lifting the revocation, the magistrates' chairman said it would he lii adequate penalt' if Umpleby's licence was suspended until June 4.