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FedEx licence suspended for missing tad') charts

5th February 1998
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by Michael Jewell • Parcels giant Federal Express was told to park up all the trucks at its Stanstead Airport depot for two days after its Operator's Licence was suspended following convictions for failing to produce tachograph records.

The company, which holds a licence in the Eastern Area for 25 vehicles and 15 trailers, appeared before Deputy Traffic Commissioner Brian Homer at a Cambridge disciplinary inquiry last week.

Traffic examiner Henry Harrison said Federal Express had been asked for tachograph charts from the beginning of September 1996 to the end of January 1997 and 379 charts were found to be missing, covering 140,000km, The company pleaded guilty to 50 specimen charges before the Saffron Walden magistrates and was fined £1,700 with £100 costs.

General manager Paul Minn-am conceded that the company's systems had been inadequate, particularly in relation to charts belonging to agency drivers. He said that a comprehensive new system had been introduced, and charts were now filed for each vehicle.

For Federal Express, Mark Kelly said that since the convictions a number of the missing charts had been found, demonstrating that it had been an administrative failure.

Suspending the licence for two days, Homer said that the company had woefully failed in its duty to keep tachograph records, and he considered it to be a serious failure on the part of management.


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