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Infringements 'could not be ignored'
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LONGSTANTON-BASED Malco Freight has lost its appeal against the suspension of its licence for two weeks, despite claims that it would lose business as a result.The company holds a licence for three vehicles and one trailer.
The licence was suspended by the Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms because of drivers' hours and tachograph offences, unauthorised use of a vehicle and unauthorised use of an operating centre for four years.The company had been convicted of 32 offences by Ely Magistrates and lined £3,100.
Before the Transport Tribunal, Tim Nesbitt, for the company, argued that the penalty was exce because there had been only transient failur record keeping, a simple and isolated period there was a modest rate of infringement by driv transient unauthorised use of a site when the aut ties were fully aware of that use, and the unintenti use of an extra unauthorised vehicle.
Disagreeing, the Tribunal said unauthorisec and tachograph infringements were criminal offe and were at the very core of the goods vehicle lk ing system.The infringements could not,in fairne other operators, be ignored.