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VI spots more than 500 offences
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• North Wales-based international and livestock haulier LE Jones is facing possible disciplinary action after a VI investigation uncovered more than 500 alleged offences.
The investigation was sparked by a vehicle check at Holyhead where one vehicle was found to have a defective speed limiter. The VI subsequently visited Jones' Ruthin depot in June 2000. The company and its drivers appeared before local magistrates to face 16 sample charges, includ
ing 11 charges against the company of permitting, all of which were dismissed.
However, a number of the drivers were prosecuted and the company pleaded guilty to four charges, including using a vehicle with a defective speed limiter and using a vehicle with a defective tachograph. It was fined £1,000.
The company and its drivers have since been called to a public inquiry for a serious breach of undertakings. Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon heard that the offences allegedly committed by the firm's drivers were among the worst the VI had seen in North Wales.
Traffic examiner Geoff Whitley said it was evident that a number of drivers had broken the speed limiter and hours regulations. He claimed that defective speed limiters and the wrong charts being used in the tachographs created such a level of offending that ever momentary consideration 01 the record sheets would have alerted the company to what was happening.
Dixon warned the driverE involved that they faced losini their HGV licences.
LE Jones and its sister com pany LE Jones (International are licensed for 100 vehicle( and 165 trailers.
The inquiry is three-quarteri of the way through; it is du( reconvene on 26 February a Rhyl Crown Court.