Cameron Young Transport offences: worst that DTC had seen in 14 years
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CM COVER STORY roger. brownfartii.co. u k THE BOSS OF collapsed haulier Cameron Young Transport has been disqualified indefinitely from holding an 0-licence after his firm was found to have wound back tachographs, pulled fuses and used "ghost drivers" to falsify records.
Following a PI held in June in Edinburgh, Scottish Deputy Traffic Commissioner (DTC) Richard McFarlane says that in 14 years he can not recall a "case as bad as this", A VOSA investigation into the haulier at that time authorised for 15 vehicles found 114 false records made by drivers between December 2008 and January 2009, 14 drivers' hours and 45 record of fences committed during the period, as well as 43 instances of aiding and abetting the commission of some of these offences. In total, 124,641km were unaccounted for.
Drivers at the company had employed various means to disguise their true duties and driving times, including using digital drivers' cards that had been issued in the name of other drivers.
VOSA officers discovered that drivers' records had been falsified through so-called -fuse-pulling': winding back tachograph clocks and interfering with analogue and digital tachograph equipment.
According to traffic examiners, they had also been greeted by -obstruction and prevarication on a grand scale" from Cameron Young, sole director of the Dumfriesbased firm, which went into liqui dation in September 2009.
"Mr Young has deliberately nored the drivers' hours rules regulations. It is an attitude complete and utter disregard even contempt for operator licc ing," said the DTC.
Also, Young failed to inform TC's office that Cameron Yo Transport had ceased trading. McFarlane added he was in doubt that "Young has contin the business of the operator u Scheleck (UK) as the trading enti The transport manager Scheleck was Young's bro Jamie, while the director at firm was Young's father-in-law