Haulage operator defies TC and has licence suspended
Date: 04 March 2008
A Glasgow haulage operator has had his licence suspended for ten days because he defied a request from the traffic commissioner (TC) to see his tachograph records, RoadTransport.com reports.
Saeed Mohammed, who trades as 786 Apollo Foods, appeared before TC Joan Aitken because he had not produced records for the April 1st to May 12th 2007 period.
He said he wished for the charts to be collected personally, but then told traffic examiners to go when they called on May 30th because he was too busy.
On June 4th he said he could not produce them because a member of staff was on holiday, and then on June 7th refused to be cautioned when visited by examiners again.
Then he offered his digital tachograph card so that examiners could download information, but they said it was his responsibility to do that.
"Mohammed admitted he had still not complied with the request to produce tachograph records and had messed the traffic examiners about, especially on May 30th when he had said he was too busy," the website stated.
The TC said that he had deliberately acted to prevent the detection of drivers' hours offences, and gave him a ten-day suspension of his licence.
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