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e A Wiltshire owner-driver, who had been convicted of falsifying tachograph records, breaching drivers' hours and unauthorised use, has had his Operator's Licence suspended for a week from midnight 30 November.
David Page, who trades as DA Page Transport Services of Swindon, holds a one-vehicle licence. Page told Western Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh that he had not known that he had to notify the Traffic Area of the tachograph convictions within 28 days.
Mervyn Pugh commented that Page should have read the statements of intent in the application form to understand the situation. The convictions were very serious ones and his usual custom in such cases was to either revoke the licence or suspend it for a long period of time.
Page said that he had been very silly to use his vehicle without a licence for a while. As far as the falsification of the tachograph records was concerned, he had not been aware of the importance of what he was doing.
When he started in the business three years ago, he had been 21-yearsold and had just jumped in without realising how serious things like tachograph matters really were.
Suspending the licence, Mervyn Pugh said he had to take some disciplinary action. He hoped that Page had learnt his lesson.