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Missing tacho charts lead to five-year 0-licence ban
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The licence held by James Rae, trading as Newton Stewart-based Raeburn Contracts, was revoked after he failed to appear before the Scottish Deputy Traffic Commissioner at a Dumfries disciplinary inquiry.
In addition, DTC Richard McFarlane disqualified Rae from holding or obtaining an 0licence in any Traffic Area for five years.
In January, Rae—who held an international licence for two vehicles and two trailers—was given four weeks to produce tachograph records together with additional financial information ( CM 13-19 Feb).
Evidence had been given to the DTC that Rae had failed to produce these records for July 2002. Rae maintained that the records had been posted to the Vehicle Inspectorate by William Lambie in Motherwell, who looked after them for him. The day before the hearing resumed Rae offered to surrender his licence, an offer that was refused by the DTC.
Traffic examiner Alistair McCormack said that in January he had asked Rae to produce tachograph charts for all his vehicles, and in particular the charts for Rae personally. No charts had ever been received, despite various promises. Eventually a number of charts were collected from Lambie when they called at his home by chance.
None related to Rae but instead to a driver called Ronald Grey [amble claimed he had never received Rae's charts.
However, the charts produced related to a vehicle on Rae's licence which was registered to a company called as Scotland. This vehicle was parked at Lambie's premises and Lambie maintained that Grey gave him the charts for safe-keeping. A number of offences were detected on these charts.
When contacted, Rae said Grey was out of the country and that he would arrange for him to be interviewed. So far this had not happened.
Holding that Rae had lost his repute both as an operator and a transport manager, the DTC said that his course of conduct was wholly inconsistent with the concept of operator licensing. It was the duty of every operator to comply with the lawful requests of the VI. if Rae had been employed by other operators who had his charts, he should have said so. The DTC directed that the revocation and disqualification orders should take immediate effect.