HGV driver disqualified for poor records and ignoring breaks
Posted by AndrewT on 18th Dec 2015
A West Midlands HGV driver was been disqualified for over twelve months for failing to observe required breaks and keeping poor records. The Traffic Commissioner for Wales and the west Midlands, Nick
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False tachograph records shrinks the fleet for coach operator
Posted by AndrewT on 3rd Dec 2015
A coach operator has had its fleet cut from 91 to just 35 vehicles following a Public Inquiry with the Traffic Commissioner for the North of England.
The operator’s staff were subject of a long trial
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Tachograph cheat is banned for three years
Posted by AndrewT on 24th Nov 2015
An Aberdeen-based owner-operator has had his O-licence revoked and been disqualified from driving HGVs for three years after using magnets to interrupt digital tachograph recordings. The public inquir
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False tachograph records lead to busload of problems for coach firm
Posted by AndrewT on 20th Nov 2015
A coach operator, whose staff were prosecuted at Crown-Court over false tachograph records is now facing a two-day public inquiry in Leeds on December 1. The Office of the Traffic Commissioner for the
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O-licence revoked for drivers’ hours offences
Posted by AndrewT on 25th Aug 2015
Numerous records and drivers’ hours offences led to a haulage firm based in Motherwell being stripped of its O-licence. The offences were unearthed by the DVSA in an investigation where they identifie
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Temporary relaxation of drivers’ hours
Posted by AndrewT on 30th Jul 2015
The Department for Transport (DfT) has agreed to a temporary relaxation of EU drivers’ hours rules to help drivers that are delayed due to industrial action or disruption at Calais with the following
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Haulage firm shut down over drivers’ hours breach
Posted by AndrewT on 29th May 2015
Banned from running haulage firm after failing to give drivers rest breaks to comply with drivers’ hours requirements.
Joan Aitken stripped the Operator Licence for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) for Mi
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Suspended prison sentences for breaching tachograph and drivers' hours regulations
Posted by AndrewT on 15th May 2015
A coach driver admits falsifying tachograph records and was handed out a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years and ordered to pay £500 costs after admitting five breaches of the regulations.
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Tachograph rules changed for Farmers
Posted by AndrewT on 20th Mar 2015
From March 2015 farmers no longer need a tachograph fitted to their vehicles if the distance travelled is less than 100km from their operating base. Before March this distance was 50km.
The base is d
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Banned for life by Traffic Commissioner
Posted by AndrewT on 13th Mar 2015
The owners of two Maidstone haulage companies have been banned for life after an inquiry heard how their behaviour put road users at risk.
The two owners of Euro Logistics London Ltd and Euro Logisti
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HGV driver fined £1000 for tachograph offences
Posted by AndrewT on 20th Feb 2015
A HGV driver has been fined £1,000 for tachograph and drivers’ hours offences after admitting thirteen charges when he appeared at Perth Sheriff Court.
On 11 dates in March and April 2013, he recorde
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Haulage director disqualified for three years
Posted by AndrewT on 4th Feb 2015
The director of a Sheerness-based haulage firm was disqualified for three years from 28 January for breaching several safety and licensing standards. The director was found to have blatantly ignored a
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Tachograph rules to change for local journeys
Posted by AndrewT on 4th Feb 2015
From 2 March 2015 a new European regulation – EU 165/2014 (PDF 2 MB) – will replace EEC 3821/85, setting out requirements for the construction, installation, use, testing and control of tachograph rec
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School coach service suspended for drivers’ hours infringements
Posted by AndrewT on 20th Jan 2015
A Coach firm providing transport for school children was suspended for two weeks for ‘significant shortfalls’ in drivers’ hours records management.
The coach operator was found to have inadequate rec
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HGV Driver Fined £1000 for failing to take a break
Posted by AndrewT on 9th Jan 2015
A County Down Commercial Goods Vehicle Operator was fined a total of £1,000 at Omagh Magistrates' Court for tachograph (drivers’ hours) offences.
The charges came after the driver was stopped by DVA
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Haulage firm to pay almost £2,500 after admitting drivers’ hours offences
Posted by AndrewT on 5th Jan 2015
D Jenkins and Son and five of the company’s drivers appeared in court on charges of failing to take the regulatory required rest breaks following an inspection by the DVSA. All admitted charges of fa
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Gist Expands Use of Cloud-Based Descartes Smartanalysis™ for European Road Transport Compliance
Posted by AndrewT on 4th Nov 2014
Descartes Systems Group today announced that Gist, a leading supply chain services provider, has expanded its use of Descartes Smartanalysis™, a tachograph analysis and compliance management solution,
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Banned for faking tachograph and drivers’ hours records
Posted by AndrewT on 8th Sep 2014
Twelve former employees of a north Cumbrian road haulage operator have been banned from professional driving after faking their tachograph and drivers’ hours records, following conduct hearings in Car
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Transport Manager disqualified for 5 years
Posted by AndrewT on 8th Jul 2014
Stephen Drever-Marshall, the nominated Transport Manager on two licences - in the North of England was disqualified by North East Traffic Commissioner Kevin Rooney for five years after making a false
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Haulier suspended for drivers’ hours offences & false records
Posted by AndrewT on 3rd Jul 2014
A Telford haulage operator has been suspended from running HGVs after Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones found that drivers had driven excessive hours, broken speed limits and created false records.
The
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DfT consults on proposals to make historical drivers’ hours offences subject to fixed penalty notices.
Posted by AndrewT on 16th Jun 2014
The Department for Transport is seeking comments on their proposals to change the legislation to allow roadside enforcement officers to issue fixed penalty notices and financial penalty deposits when
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ILT increases fines for tachograph infringements in Netherlands
Posted by AndrewT on 10th Jun 2014
The Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) recently announced that the fines for manipulation of the tachograph will go up sharply. TLN the Dutch Association for Transport and Logistics support
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Transport Manager loses his repute over CPC training & drivers’ hours infringements
Posted by AndrewT on 5th Jun 2014
A Transport Manager recently lost his repute indefinitely for failing to make sure his drivers had started their Driver CPC training and the drivers’ hours infringements that occurred as a result.
Th
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HGV Driver banned for false tachograph records and drivers' hours infringements
Posted by AndrewT on 19th Feb 2014
The HGV driver was called to the Deputy Traffic Commissioner in Edinburgh in February after the authorities reported him for drivers’ hours infringements. He was originally pulled over by inspectors f
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HGV drivers fined £34,410 in crack down on drivers’ hours and tachograph offences
Posted by AndrewT on 14th Jan 2014
A partnership operation by the police and VOSA over three weeks during November and December 2013 in Devon and Cornwall called Operation Fatigue resulted in fines of £34,410.
The operation involved t
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HGV driver fined £900 for drivers’ hours offences
Posted by AndrewT on 20th Dec 2013
A HGV driver was given on-the-spot fines totalling £900 after he tried to falsify his drivers’ hours record.
The driver was stopped on 13 December during routine checks on HGVs on the M11.
VOSA exami
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Waste disposal firm penalised for drivers’ hours offences
Posted by AndrewT on 11th Oct 2013
Scotland's Traffic Commissioner, Joan Aitkin ruled on 3 October that Dow Waste Management will be prevented from expanding for 12 months. The company’s operations are to be limited, because of drivers
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Fixed penalties increased from 16 August
Posted by AndrewT on 15th Aug 2013
Department for Transport announced that fixed penalty levels will increase from 16 August 2013. Graduated fixed penalties and financial deposits for vans, trucks and buses are also increased as a resu
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Lifetime ban for haulier after tampering with tachograph for a second time
Posted by AndrewT on 1st Aug 2013
Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken informed George Davidson that he would be disqualified from driving HGVs and could not re-apply for his professional licence until his 75th birthday after he was found
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Fined over £40,000 for drivers' hours offences
Posted by AndrewT on 10th Jul 2013
Following a VOSA investigation, Ian John Trussler, a partner and transport manager; and Kenneth Trussler, a partner of Goldline Taxis and Coaches both received suspended prison sentences for admitting
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