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Dole-cheat boss loses licence appeal

30th November 2006
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A LIVERPOOL OPERATOR who paid his drivers cash in hand while they were claiming state benefits has lost his appeal against the revocation of his twovehicle licence and his disqualification from holding or obtaining an 0-licence for five years.

North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell made the revocation and disqualification orders after being told that Maghull-based Darren Jones, trading as D Jones Haulage, had also lost touch with his transport manager who was in prison -an that drivers' tachograph records had not bee checked.

The Traffic Commissioner heard that a substan0 number of tachograph charts were missing and th: it appeared that drivers had been falsifying char (CM 6 July).

Dismissing Jones' appeal. the Transport Tribum said it could see no redeeming features apa: from Jones' admission of his own failings and h earnest assurances to the TC that he wanted t run the licence correctly. The history of D Jon( Haulage indicated that a great many things ha gone wrong.

The Transport Tribunal noted that Jones ha said he needed the licence to earn a living, but thi was not correct. There were other ways of earning living in road transport, for example by buying an selling vehicleswhich Jones had told the TC he Nik good at.

Summary

NO ALTERNATIVE The Transport Tribunal could see no alternative course that the TC could have taken to the revocation and disqualification orders.

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Organisations: Transport Tribunal
Locations: Maghull

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