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TC cuts OK Millar's licence to one
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Stranraer-based OK Millar & Sons has had its Operator's Licence cut to one artic after the Scottish Traffic Commissioner said its director would be more effective as an owner-driver.
The firm, with a licence for four vehicles and four trailers, had been called before IC Michael Betts at a Glasgow disciplinary inquiry.
In July 2000, the company's licence was cut to two vehicles and two trailers for a period of two weeks after one of its drivers was convicted of five false record offences, and admitted a further four.
The TC was told that a Vehicle Inspectorate investigation was carried out in late 2000 into Scottish sub-contractors working for Lincolnshire fresh produce company, Fowler-Welch. The VI was unable to obtain tachograph records from OK Millar, which claimed that they had been stolen. It was subsequently prosecuted for failing to produce tachograph charts and was fined £750.
In January 2001, and again in May 2001, one of the company's vehicles was found to be fitted with an illegal device to short out the tachograph.
Managing director David Millar said that he drove full-time, doing mostly longdistance Continental work. He had had difficulty in controlling drivers, for which reason he had reduced his fleet to a single vehicle. He had recently put a second vehicle on the road, which he thought he could control. Warning letters had been sent to the drivers after the interrupter devices had been found and satellite navigation devices were fitted to the vehicles so that all movements could be compared to the tachograph charts.
The IC said that he had expressed his concern in 2000 that Millar had effectively left some of his vehicles in the control of the main contractor while he was away. it seemed that this had continued.
Curtailing his licence, the TC said that he believed that this was more appropriate to Millar's style of operating effectively as an owner-driver. There had been no complaints about his own work as a driver, but they had always been about his lack of management and failure to control his employees.