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Missing mileage could result in adion against 0-licence
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A NORTHUMBRIAN haulier must wait to see what action might be taken against the licence he holds with his wife after tachograph charts revealed more than 3,000km of missing mileage over a year.
Stephen and Sandra Armstrong, trading as S&S Armstrong, of Haltwistle, appeared before the TC at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry Stephen Armstrong has connections to William Martin Oliver & Sons which saw two of its directors jailed last month for conspiracy to falsify tachograph charts (CM 24 March).
Vehicle examiner Gary Nicholson said Armstrong told him his one vehicle was out of service, not taxed, out of test and parked up at Oliver's premises at Bardon Mill. He was told traction-only work was undertaken for William Martin Oliver and maintenance was contracted out to that firrn.Traffic examiner Anusia Bainbridge said analysis of a year's tachograph charts revealed 3245km unaccounted for. Armstrong said William and Stuart Oliver were close family friends. He first worked for Oliver when he was 16. about 25 years ago. In 1992 he decided to start his own business, initially working as a subcontractor for Oliver.
About four years' ago he lost his driving licence under the totting up procedure and went back to work for Oliver.initially in the warehouse before going into the traffic office, and employed a driver to drive his own vehicle.
He was approached by Katharine Oliver to become a co-director of Revilo Logistics, which had sought an 0-licence to keep the Oliver trucks running. Armstrong said he had been unaware that Revilo had been called to a public inquiry and argued with Katharine Oliver about it.
For the Armstrongs, James Backhouse said the majority of the missing mileage occurred when a driver left and took a week's tachograph charts with him.