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IC imposes a ceiling on an operator who lost interest
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AN OPERATOR WHO "just did not want to know" after he encountered a series of personal and business problems has had his licence cut from seven vehicles and one trailer to four vehicles and one trailer.
Oldbury-based Royston Henderson, trading as Henderson Haulage, had been called before West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry.
Traffic examiner Marion Wilson said an investigation was begun after the driver of one of Henderson's vehicles was unable to produce a tachograph chart when stopped in a roadside check in June 2004. The vehicle had a defective speed limiter.
Analysis of 163 tachograph records for JuneAugust of last year revealed that driver Harry Lewis had committed 204½-hour driving offences and one daily driving offence.The charts also showed that he had driven on 50 occasions after his HGV driving entitlement expired in July 2002. Lewis was prosecuted for 184½-hour offences and one driving licence offence, with fines and costs totalling £1,055. Henderson was fined £2,000 for permitting Lewis's offences.
Henderson said he had moved his operating centre to Bilston without authority after he lost his main contract, which he had held for the best part of 20 years, when the price was cut in half by a cowboy haulier. It had been an ongoing nightmare since then. In May and June of last year he had just not wanted to know and that was when the problems with Lewis arose.
However, he added, everything was now back in order. Initially, the move to Bilston had been temporary but he had since applied for, and been granted, authority for the Bilston site.
The TC said he was putting a ceiling on operations for the time being. Things had clearly gone badly wrong last summer and because road safety was at stake the law was unforgiving.