Haulier's disqualification lifted
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• North Yorkshire haulier Edward Sadler has succeeded in having his Operator's licence disqualification lifted and a company where he is now a director has been granted a licence.
AS International. of Boroughbridge, had applied for a new international licence at a Leeds public inquiry to run four vehicles and four trailers; it was previously operating under interim authority In February 1993 Sadler was disqualified from holding a licence for five years because drivers had been committing significant drivers' hours offences.
DOT traffic examiner Tracey Collins said she had examined the company's tachograph records. No charts existed for a journey made by Sadler himself, she said: two other drivers had exceeded their daily driving limits and had taken insufficient daily rest. However, she felt that Sadler cared about what was going on and wanted to do things correctly.
Sadler said he had never been convicted of offences involving tachographs and driving hours during 20 years in the industry A firm of tachograph consultants employed to check the tachograph charts had now issued information packs to the drivers, said Sadler.
There was now a logging-in sheet to prevent charts going missing and drivers had been issued with forms to enable them to keep a personal record of their hours.
Sadler admitted that he had been out of order in the past but told the inquiry he had learnt from that. He had since passed the CPC exam.
Waterworth said he felt sufficient time had passed for Sadler to have regained his repute.