AXLE/VEHICLE OVERLOADING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS LICENSING HEARINGS DRIVERS' —Ai HOURS COURT CASES AND TRIBUNALS SPEEDING CHARGES VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FORTNIGHTS 1111MIF.
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Scottish OTC Richard McFarlane has suspended the licence for 32 vehicles and 26 trailers held by Turriff-based TPS Distribution for a fortnight following convictions for offences including overloading and drivers' hours.
DIONTWS STOPPAOF.
Breaches of the drivers' hours and tachograph rules have led to Scottish TO Michael Betts suspending five vehicles for four weeks from the licence for 15 vehicles and 10 trailers held by Hamilton-based Thomas Young & Son (Eddlewood Transport).
EXCISE UCENCE FRAUD
Fines of £2,500 for the fraudulent use of an excise licence and operating a vehicle at the wrong rate of tax have resulted in the revocation of the 0-licence held by Gerald Orme, trading as Transgo International, of Ashby-de-laZouch. Eastern TO Geoffrey Sims disqualified Orme from holding a licence for a year,
TACHO TROUBLES Swansea-based Robert Leroy was fined E1,200 plus 135 costs by Llanelli magistrates for using a vehicle without an 0-licence, failing to keep tacho records and not having a tacho calibration check.
OININECION USED
Kings Cross-based Rutland Waste Management has been granted a licence for 10 vehicles and six trailers following an undertaking that Patrick Donaghy will have no connection with the business.