Cadwallader licence cut
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• West Midlands Licensing Authority.Roflaid Jackson has cut the licences held by G & IZ Cadwallader and Cadwallader Continental (Oswestry) to cover only the vehicles in possession. They have also been told to submit weekly analyses of their tachograph charts.
The two companies were summoned to appear before the LA following drivers' hours and tachograpii offences which led to them being ordered to pay £2,002 in fines and costs by the Oswestry Magistrates. (CM September 27). The proceedings had previously been adjourned because Jackson required the attendance of directors Russell and Gordon Cadwallader.
Russell Cadwallader said drivers were not paid on an .hourly rate so there was no reason for them to drive excessive hours, but they could not be expected to abandon their vehicles in a layby if they had been delayed in traffic. He had been in haulage for over 30 years and had a good record in the industry.
Jackson said that with his experience Cadwallader must know that allowances should be made for hold-ups when as sessing journey times.
The G & R Cadwallader licence has been curtailed from 90 vehicles and 140 trailers to 82 vehicles and 34 trailers, and the Cadwallader Continental licence from 30 vehicles and 34 trailers to 21 vehicles and 25 trailers. The duration of Cadwallader Continental's licence has also been cut so that both companies' licences expire at the end of September.
In requiring the weekly production of the chart analyses, Jackson said he wants any discrepancies to be pointed out together with a note of what action had been taken plus copies of any warning letters sent to the drivers.