Licences suspended over hours
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Cyril Knowles has had its licence suspended for two weeks by Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourlet for drivers' hours and tachograph offences. The company was called before the Deputy TC after 23 drivers had been found breaking the drivers' hours rules.
Knowles had initially been fined £53.800 (reduced to 115,450 on appeal) after being convicted
of permitting its drivers to commit several hundred offences. The drivers were fined a total of £20.050 fCM17-23 May).
The Deputy TO said Knowles had failed to exercise the care and diligence needed to ensure that tachograph charts were properly checked.
Bourlet decided that former transport manager David Davies had not lost his repute, but said: "I am especially critical of the role of Mr Davies, who agreed that he should have been m vigilant in checking charl However, the Deputy TO no that Davies had been replac Bourlet suspended the I driving licences of all but on the drivers concerned for and two weeks. The case involi driver Derek Perry adjourned until a date to be ft Perry faces charges of assai ing the company's operati manager after the first day the public inquiry ( CM17-23 M: