Wife threw out tacho charts
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• West Midland Traffic Commis sioner John Mervyn ['ugh will decide early next month what action to take against a Wednesfield haulage firm after the wife of a tachograph consultant dumped 12 months worth of tachograph charts with the household rubbish.
The TC is considering taking disciplinary action against the 22-vehicle licence held by haulage firm Impexstone following its conviction for 16 offences of failing to produce tachograph charts, for which it was fined a total of £960.
When the case first came before Mervyn Pugh in March, transport consultant Don Fisher, the VI's former West Midland enforcement manager, said he had picked up the charts from the company on a Friday afternoon using his wife's car, leaving the cardboard box containing the charts in the boot over the weekend as he intended to work on them on the Monday. But on the Saturday morning his wife loaded the boot with rubbish and took it to the tip. The proceedings were adjourned to enable Fisher's wife to be called to give evidence. (CM13-19 March).
Jane Fisher told the TC that there were always cardboard boxes in her car and she went to the tip on a regular basis. One cardboard box looked like another to her; she described her husband's comment on discovering the box had gone as "unrepeatable".
Director Mervyn Appleby said that if the company's' licence were revoked or suspended it would lose its contracts and 21 employees would be made redundant.