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Anonymous complaints lead to formal warning
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A NORTH YORKSHIRE firm of plant hire contractors has been given a formal warning after North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett was satisfied it had done all it could to correct drivers' hours and tachograph problems.
Scarborough-based John Edward Greenwood and John Michael G reenwood, trading as.1 Greenwood & Son, with a licence for three vehicles and three trailers, had been called to a Leeds public inquiry.
Traffic examiner Stephen Ripley said he analysed 228 tachograph charts following several anonymous complaints about drivers exceeding their permitted hours. Charts were missing for all three vehicles, and 8,77 kilometres were unaccounted for. There were many instances in which the centre field had not been completed correctly and, on two occasions,one driver had driven for seven consecutive days.
The traffic examiner agreed that some of the missing charts had subsequently been produced, accounting for a substantial amount of the missing kilometres. Ripley commented that, when interviewed, John Edward Greenwood had said they had had problems with Polish drivers, and two of them had been dismissed. After examining tachograph records produced at the hearing, Ripley said there were no apparent problems.
John Edward Greenwood said about 11 days' charts were still missing. One driver had been dismissed afterjust over four weeks because of problems in collecting charts from him, and allegations that he was using his vehicle for his own purposes.
A second driver had been dismissed because of his poor standard of driving and his insufficient understanding of the tachograph regulations. The driver failed to return any charts after he left the company.
A third driver had been dismissed because he was uncontrollable, and he had failed to return the charts for his last three days of driving.
Tachograph charts were now independently analysed on a fortnightly basis, said Greenwood, and any serious infringements were now being brought to his attention immediately.