Hodnet gets the green light
Page 18
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• No action was taken against the licence of Market Drayton owner/driver Gary Edwards, trading as Hodnet Transport, when he appeared at disciplinary proceedings before West Midlands Deputy Licencing Authority Ivor Pugh. An application to increase the number of vehicles on his licence from one to three was granted.
Edwards had been called before the DLA following convictions for drivers' hours and tachograph offences which resulted in fines and costs totalling £1,050 (Commercial Motor December 5, 1986).
For Edwards, Michael Carless said a false records offence arose out of the employment of casual drivers. One of them failed to enter his name on the centre field of a chart and Edwards entered the name of the man who he thought had driven that vehicle that day when in fact it was someone else. Five offences of failing to produce records arose because Edwards genuinely could not find the records concerned. Offences of excessive hours were due to a miscalculation of driving time.
If the variation was granted Edwards would take on a driver on a permanent basis. Authority for a third vehicle was required so that there was the facility for an immediate substitute vehicle in case of a breakdown.
Pugh made no direction and granted the variation after hearing Edwards had tightened up his arrangements for checking tachograph charts.