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• Two directors of a haulage company who were jailed for using a wire to allow them to produce fake tachograph charts have been banned from holding an Operator's Licence for five years.
John Stephenson and Terence Turner, owners of Braintree, Essexbased J&T Transport, were called before Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms after they were sentenced to four months' imprisonment for falsifying tachograph records. They had admitted using a wire to interrupt the tachograph while waiting to load containers at Felixstowe Docks.
The TC also revoked their HGV driving licences and disqualified them from driving HGVs for six months.
Making the revocation and disqualification orders, the TC said that to deliberately disable safety equipment— tachographs or speed limiters—by the means of any device such as an illegal wire would inevitably cause him to consider the revocation of the vocational licence of that driver. It was unprofessional to offend against the drivers' hours rules, but human beings could, and did, make mistakes. He could forgive a mistake, provided it was acknowledged and acted upon. However, the deliberate and calculated falsification of tachograph records could not fall into the category of a mistake. Offences of such a nature called into question that person's suitability to hold a professional licence.