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Operator gets off lightly after multiple offences
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A SCOTTISH operator lost two of its 20-vehicle fleet for two weeks after an examination of more than 1,000 tachograph charts revealed 100 hours offences.
Philip and Colin Hamilton. directors of Ayrshire international operator P&C Hamilton, appeared before Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken.
Traffic examiner Joseph Logan said analysis of 1,038 tachograph charts covering March and April 2002 revealed 100 breaches of the regulations, including taking insufficient breaks and rest and exceeding the daily driving limit.
There were small gaps of unrecorded mileage; four cases of power interruptions and on one occasion a ferry crossing had not been recorded. Charts had been inserted in the tachograph the wrong way without any manual record being kept. There were five cases of excess speeds (CM 11 December 2003). TheTC said the traffic examiner had found a pattern of hours offences relating to taking breaks, the amount of daily driving and the use of the mode switch.
She took into account the fact that the firm had realised the seriousness of its problems. It had launched a training programme, provided in-cab aids for drivers and increased the use of the FrA for chart analysis.
She also accepted that the offences had been committed in 2002 but for reasons outside the firm's control it was only now that a decision was to hand.
In 1999, her predecessor had curtailed the licence by two vehicles for one week. Her decision was that the licence should he curtailed from 20 vehicles to 18 for two weeks. Aitken concluded that if it were not for the passage of time and the investment in putting matters right, the curtailment would have been significantly greater.