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TRUCKING PENALTIES * UK - 'Ghost drivers' firm loses O-licence
"Obstruction and prevarication on a grand scale"
Dumfries,Dumfries & Galloway,UK -Road Transport, by Roger Brown -21 August 2010: -- The boss of collapsed haulier Cameron Young Transport has been disqualified indefinitely after his firm was found to have wound back tachograph clocks, pulled fuses and used "ghost drivers" to falsify its records... In a written decision, following a public inquiry held in June in Edinburgh, Scottish Deputy Traffic Commissioner (DTC), Richard McFarlane said, Cameron Young, sole director of the Dumfries-based company, which went into liquidation in September 2009, should also lose his HGV licence and that the firm's O-licence be revoked... A VOSA investigation into the haulier - at that time authorised for 15 vehicles - found 114 false records made by drivers between December 2008 and January 2009, 14 drivers' hours and 45 record offences committed during the period, as well as 43 instances of aiding and abetting the commission of some of these offences. In total, 124,641km were unaccounted for... Drivers at the company had employed various means to disguise their true duties and driving times, including using digital drivers' cards that had been issued in the name of other drivers... VOSA officers discovered that drivers' records had been falsified through so-called "fuse-pulling", winding back tachograph clocks and interfering with analogue and digital tachograph recording equipment... According to traffic examiners, they had also been greeted by "obstruction and prevarication on a grand scale" from Young... (Image from photobucket: Young's Scania truck)
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