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ALLEGED OFFENCES 'NUMBERED IN HUNDREDS'
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A VOSA investigation into McLanachan Transport found hundreds of alleged offences involving tachograph charts, copy driver licences, traffic sheets, fuel invoices and other documents.
Traffic Commissioner for Scotland Joan Aitken suspended the Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire-based hauliers 0-licence for four weeks, with effect from 6 June, following the public inquiry and driver conduct hearings in Edinburgh.
The VOSA investigation, which began in May 2008, revealed 246 alleged offences relating to false records, 60 for drivers' hours offences and two records showing excessive speeds, for the period between 25
February and March 30 2008. There were also 56 instances of failing to produce tachograph record sheets and 68 instances where no driver card/vehicle downloads were produced. Aitken also issued a warning to the operator, directors and transport manager as to their repute.
According to the TO, Matthew McLanachan, director and transport manager, had at best "not kept himself up to date by his ignorance of the detail of what was required" and at worst had deliberately 'chosen to ignore the provision to the company's benefit and to the disadvantage of road safety and fair competition".