Trucks reduced from 1510 six
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A series of convictions have led to the authorisation on the Operator's Licence held by Alexander Flynn, trading as Richard Flynn & Sons, of Tranent, East Lothian, being cut from 15 vehicles and 15 trailers to six vehicles and four trailers.
Flynn appeared at an Edinburgh disciplinary inquiry before Scottish Traffic Commissioner Michael Betts.
Traffic examiner Richard Loftus said that since Alexander Flynn's appearance at a previous public inquiry in March 1993, convictions had been recorded against him and his drivers on four occasions for offences of overloading, speeding, failing to take the required weekly rest, and causing and permitting those hours offences.
In August 1998 Flynn's brother Hugh was fined £150 by Leigh, Lancashire magistrates with £100 costs after he was convicted of two offences of falsifying tachograph records.
Hugh Flynn had fitted a length of wire with a crocodile clip attached into a block connector of the tachograph which had the effect of earthing the tachograph so that rest was recorded on the charts when the vehicle was moving.
This was a fairly common method of falsifying tachograph records, Loftus told the inquiry.
Cutting the licence, the Commissioner concluded that Alexander Flynn had breached his undertakings to ensure that his drivers complied with the drivers' hours rules, and that his vehicles were not running overloaded.