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Formal warning follows second inquiry into hours and tachos
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AN OLDBURY-based operator escaped with a formal warning when he appeared at his second public inquiry within seven months for breaches of the drivers' hours and tachograph rules.
Royston Henderson, trading as Henderson Haulage, appeared before West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry. He had appeared at a previous public inquiry last August, when his licence had been curtailed from seven vehicles to four because of offences by his drivers.
Traffic examiner Robert Lees said an analysis of 200 tachograph records last September had revealed two 41/2-hour driving offences by one driver and failure to use tachograph charts by two others on five occasions. Some 4,200km had been unaccounted for.
Henderson had later fined been £600 with £300 costs for failing to produce charts.
Henderson said the vehicles were parked overnight with the keys in on the instructions of a fire officer. He had been off sick for a month and they might have been used without his knowledge. He explained that he was before the TC hoping to get things back on track. He had taken control again at the beginning of September and hoped the TC could see that he had put things right.There was now no missing distance on the charts and he had stopped the underhand goings on. He would like to go hack to running seven vehicles.
The TC said Henderson's systems needed to work in the future. He was unlikely to grant any additional vehicles until the second half of the year, and then only after a further report from the traffic examiner.