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Tachograph fiddler loses his 0-licence and LGV licence
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Owner-driver used his brother's name to hide serious hours offences.
A SHROPSH IRE owner-driver who was so tired he was in danger of killing someone has lost his 0-licence and LGV driving licence for regularly falsifying tachograph charts and committing serious drivers' hours offences.
West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon disqualified Oswestry-based Philip Morris from holding or obtaining an 0-licence in any Traffic Area for two years and from holding an LO V driving licence for one year.
Mon-is, who held an international licence for one vehicle and one trailer, was called before the TC at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry. In December he had been convicted at Stokeon-Trent Crown Court of falsifying tachograph records, given 140 hours of community service and ordered to pay £1,175.50 costs.
Missing kilometres
Traffic examiner Marianne Barnett said a 44-tonne artic driven by Morris was stopped in a check on the M6 at Doxey on 29 April 2005. Morris produced seven tachograph records. On one chart,191 kilometres were missing and two charts were dated 25 April,with the second of these in the name of his brother Andrew Morris. Morris initially claimed his brother had done the work on the second chart.
When Barnett interviewed Morris in May. he produced another 65 charts and admitted that he had regularly used his brother's name to hide serious drivers' hours offences over a three-month period. As well as 17 false charts, there were also 14 offences of exceeding 4.5 hours of driving without the required break, with driving periods of up to 10 hours 58 minutes. There were 14 offences of exceeding the daily driving limit, with driving of up to 19 hours 43 minutes. There were also 13 offences of taking insufficient daily rest:on one occasion Morris had only one hour 45 minutes rest.
Barnett said Morris had told her he had wanted to work hard during the week so that he could spend the weekends with his son. He said the prosecution had been "a wake-up call" and he was relieved to have been found out.
Making the revocation and disqualification orders. the TC said it was clearly a very serious case. Morris had broken the drivers' hours rules, in some cases to a substantial degree. He had put road safety at risk over a substantial period and was fortunate he had not killed or injured anyone as a result of his tiredness. •