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The TDG (UK) driver who starred in the Vehicle Inspectorate's Check it Out video on drivers' hours and was then caught falsifying his tacho records has been stripped of his licence (CM 28 June-4 July).
George Davies of Blacon, Chester had been called before North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell at a Trafford disciplinary inquiry.
In June Davies was fined £510 with .£200 costs after pleading guilty to 17 offences of falsification before Chester magistrates. He asked for 74 other offences to be taken into consideration.
Traffic examiner Geoffrey Whitley told Bell that the offences had been committed between the beginning of April and the end of October last year. They all involved the falsification of start and finish points.
The offences came to light during an examination of the tachograph records at TDG's Mold premises. When interviewed, Davies had said that his wife had been severely depressed following family bereavements and he had carried on home to be with her.
However, in reply to the TO Davies admitted that he had done it to make a living wage. He said he had been falsifying tachograph records and claiming night-out payments long before the family bereavements. He had resigned from his employment with T two days before he was due to appear a disciplinary hearing.
Revoking Davies' HGV driving licence 15 months, Bell said she had considerei two-year ban but in the light of Davies' a+ siderable honesty in admitting what he 1 done she was prepared to reduce it to months.