"30-40% of Records are False"
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AN appeal to C-licensees to help to stamp out "the cancer of falsification of records" was made on Monday by Mr. R. A. Devenish, chief enforcement officer for the West Midland Area.
"On average, between 30 and 40 per cent, of drivers' log sheets are false as far as long-distance drivers are concerned," he told the Birmingham Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association.
The courts were taking a much more serious view of offences against regulations concerning records and hours. In the more flagrant cases, the Ministry had preferred charges under the Perjury Act, and. imprisonment could be imposed.
Mr.. Leonard Patrick, T.R.T.A. West Midland divisional secretary, afterwards expressed surprise at the high proportion of falsifications. " From' my experience of the large number of summonses recently, drivers have not followed their
employers' instructions," he • said. :