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Driver's hours offence
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Driving for more than 4.5 hours without taking the required amount of breaks has cost Wrexham lorry driver Alan Hughes £675 in fines and costs.
Hughes admitted seven such offences before Welshpool Magistrates. The Court was told that in October 2008 a three-axled vehicle, with a gross weight of 23,400kg, driven by Hughes, was stopped in a roadside check on the A483 at Welshpool. An examination of the tachograph records produced by Hughes showed he had been driving for periods varying between five hours 10 minutes and six hours 56 minutes, with breaks varying between 15 and 28 minutes only.
The magistrates lined Hughes £400 and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of 1275.
Revocation quashed
The Transport Tribunal has quashed the revocation of the 0-licence for three vehicles and three trailers held by Weston-super-Mare-based B&J Evers, trading as BJR Haulage.
In May 2008, a recorded delivery letter was sent to the firm stating it had been impossible to contact it by telephone to arrange for its vehicles to be inspected by VOSA. No response was received, and in January 2009, the Western Traffic Area Office wrote by recorded delivery saying the Traffic Commissioner was minded to revoke the licence unless contact was made within 21 days. Again no reply was received, so the TC revoked the licence.
The Tribunal was told the firm had replied to the TAO on 2 February and again on 23 February, enclosing a copy of the previous letter. A member of the Traffic Area staff said the office had been searched, hut the earlier letter had not been found, and if the firm wanted to challenge the TC's decision it could appeal to the Tribunal. Allowing the appeal, the Tribunal said it had been given a straightforward account of what had occurred, which it had no reason to doubt.
0-licence condition
In granting an application for an 0-licence by Newport-based Mark Rumney. Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Fiona Harrington imposed a condition that it would be used only to take trailers to and from a Goods Vehicle Testing Station in connection with his vehicle/trailer repair business.
Rumney, who appeared before the DTC at a Pontypool public inquiry, also agreed to have his maintenance and compliance systems audited by the Road Haulage Association or another independent trade association within three months and every six months thereafter.
Audit reports were to be kept for two years and forwarded to the Welsh Traffic Commissioner's Office with Rumney's proposals for implementing its recommendations within 21 days of its receipt.