DTC to consider further details • International haulier JG Osborne
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should not be blamed for its drivers' hours and tachograph offences once they leave the depot, said former traffic examiner Leslie Ridley. He was giving evidence in Osborne's disciplinary proceedings before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner John Hampton. Evidence that an examination of four weeks' tachograph charts revealed a large number of offences committed by 18 out of 20 drivers was also given (CM 31 Dec-6 Jan).
Ridley, a tachograph consul tant, disagreed with some of the alleged offences, saying many of them related to a matter of minutes, and that the tachograph itself was only accurate to five minutes.
Many of the allegations were "nit picking", he said.
Managing director Ronald Osborne said he reported a driver to the police because of the fraudulent use of fuel credit cards and the falsification of tachograph charts and