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Off road for four weeks am told to find a new manage!
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Knolton Farmhouse Cheese of Overtonon-Dee has had its Operator's Licence suspended for four weeks for speed limiter offences. The company, which holds a licence for two vehicles and three trailers, appeared before Welsh Trafnc Commissioner David Dixon at a Chester disciplinary inquiry.
PC John Roberts of North Wales Police told Dixon that a Knolton vehicle was caught doing 69mph on the Wrexham bypass. Driver Frank Walsh was given a fixed penalty notice.
Senior vehicle examiner David Collings reported that the company had been unable to produce all the requested tachograph records. However, it was obvious from the charts that were produced that the speed limiter was not functioning. A test confirmed this.
The vehicle had been driven on country roads at motorway speeds, posing a serious threat to road safety, Collings added. Even a glance at the tachograph records would have alerted the company to what was happening.
Walsh and the company subsequently pleaded guilty to six offences of using a vehicle when the speed limiter was inoperative; the company was fined 22,400 and Walsh 21,200, with 2,70 costs apiece.
Vehicle examiner Peter Rimmer said he had carried out a maintenance investigation in April. There was no forward planning system and the eightweek inspection period was not always adhered to. There was no formal driver defect report mg system and the prevli year's test record was poor.
Rimrner told the TC I when he asked Robert Willi2 who the CPC holder v Williams left the room to • out. On returning he appeared very surprised have found that it was him.
Suspending the licence, requiring the nomination a new transport manager by end of the month, the TC this was a bad case. It totally unacceptable for a tonner to be driven at 68mp1 any sort of road.