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Licence authorisation halved due to drivers' hours and tacho offences
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THE LICENCEAUTHORISATION of Derbyshire specialist bulk powder haulage company Kenneth Twyford has been halved from 21 vehicles and 21 trailers to 10 vehicles and 10 trailers for 14 days because of drivers' hours and tachograph offences. The company has also been fined £6,000.
North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell was told that drivers employed by the company had falsified tachograph records, exceeded 41/2 hours without the required break, exceeded the daily driving limit and taken insufficient daily rest. Managing director Kenneth Twyford appeared to be surprised by the scale of the problems that had been discovered.
The company had been prosecuted on the basis that it should have known what was going on —or that it did know and had shut its eyes to the obvious.
Twyford accepted that the company's system for analysing tachograph charts — using a hand-held analyser — had been wholly inadequate. He said he had been unaware that drivers had been falsifying charts and admitted that the drivers concerned had not been disciplined. The firm was now using the Stoneridge software system for analysing charts, and a transport consultant had been engaged to train the drivers and carry out quarterly audits. Twyford said he might have been too soft with the drivers: they had not been under any pressure and did not need to break the rules. But he agreed that the drivers had been paid a bonus so that the more the vehicle earned, the more the driver earned (CM 2 November 2006).
Cutting the licence, theTC said the repute of the firm and its professional competence had just survived,with the balance being 51% to 49% in the firm's favour.