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Driver 'unfit to hold a licence'
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iik., Falsifying tachograph records and --'s, speeding has led to a driver from Felixstowe firm Newell (1, Wright losing his i HGV driving licence. In addition, Eastern ' Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms
banned driver James McGilllaugh, from holding an HGV licence for a period of 18 months.
McCullaugh had been called before the TC after being sentenced to 60 hours community service, and ordered to pay £250 costs, at Ipswich Crown Court in August for 13 offences of falsification.
The IC said that in October 1998 McCullaugh had been sent a warning letter after being convicted of two speeding offences and a number of drivers' hours offences, one of which involved the falsification of a tachograph record.
Questioned about more recent offences, committed in April, May and June 2000, MoenIlaugh said that the company had been unaware of what he had been doing. He had done it to spend more time at home during the weekend—on one occasion it had enabled him to get home on Friday night instead of on Saturday. He agreed that there had been two further speeding offences since the warning letter, saying he had been caught on camera.
Making the revocation and disqualification orders, the IC said the falsification offences were calculated and deliberate acts committed to deceive the enforcement authorities Into believing that McCullaugh had taken the required amount of rest—itself a safeguard to protect the public from tired drivers.
For that type of offence, and for speeding, McCullaugh had been formally warned less than two years previously. The repetitive nature of the offending, despite formal warning of the likely consequences, caused him to find that McCullaugh was unfit to hold an HGV licence.