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I CASE TWO
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Tacho fiddling leads to licence reduction
TACHO FIDDLING by drivers has led to a rental firm's 0-licence being reduced from six vehicles and two trailers to three vehicles and two trailers for six weeks.
Access Rentals of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was called before Scottish Traffic Commissioner (TC) Joan Aitken at an Edinburgh disciplinary inquiry.
Traffic examiner James Sweetin investigated the company after a letter was received alleging noncompliance of drivers' hours regulations, falsification of records, and instructions for drivers to use "dummy charts" on the return leg to conceal periods of driving.
Sweetin found evidence to back up the allegations, and that the drivers were instructed to do it. There was no system for compliance with working time regs and there were problems with drivers' breaks.
The steps taken to remedy the situation were detailed, including the training that had been given to the drivers.
The TC said that here was a company that she heard prided itself on its customer focus and presentation, yet behind that outward appearance lay an operation that had drivers falsifying their charts and where proper rest and breaks were not being taken. She was grateful to the individual who informed Vosa of the offences.
Fortunately for the company, there was the evidence of remedial action. Thus she had decided, though not without hesitation, that she could draw back from revocation.