Tachograph card misuse leads to loss of licence

Apparently the driver mistakenly used the bosses driver card :smiley: :unamused:

commercialmotor.com/news/co … ss-licence

A haulier’s O-licence has been revoked and its director disqualified after a driver used his employer’s
tachograph card to drive for a “truly shocking” period.

A public inquiry (PI) into Sahota Transport Services was called after a traffic examiner stopped one of its
vehicles and found the driver’s tachograph card photograph did not resemble the driver.

Despite a claim by the driver he was Daljit Singh Sahota, as shown on the card, the examiner followed up
the roadside stop with a site visit in July 2018. He met with Sahota, who was the company’s director and
transport manager, who insisted he had been the driver.

The interview was then suspended on advice from Sahota’s solicitor. Six weeks later the solicitor contacted
the traffic examiner to say the driver had in fact been Amrinder Singh Mann.

Subsequent analysis of the card showed that by using it in conjunction with Sahota’s card, Mann had exceeded
the maximum permitted daily driving time by 44 minutes and the maximum permitted duty time by more
than seven hours. Mann had then taken a daily rest period of just three and a half hours – instead of the
legal minimum of nine hours. On another occasion, the driver had exceeded the maximum permitted daily
driving time by three hours and
46 minutes.

At a PI in Birmingham, the traffic examiner said his roadside interview of Mann was punctuated by pauses
while the driver was on the phone, as though he was being fed the answers.

For the company, Philip Brown accepted that Mann had driven “considerably in excess of his maximum
permitted hours” by driving for 23 hours and then starting work three and a half hours later, but that it
was a one-off incident and Mann had mistakenly used Sahota’s card, which had been left in the truck.

However, in a written decision, traffic commissioner Nick Denton said he found it “inconceivable” the
events as described to him had taken place. He said Sahota had deliberately tried to perpetuate the
falsehood that it was he who had been driving and he could no longer trust the operator or transport
manager to operate compliantly.

As a result, Sahota lost his good repute and was disqualified for five years, while the company’s licence
was revoked.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Benter than a 9 rupee note

They’ll now be running around without an O licence.

Isn’t it disgraceful how ethnic minorities are treated in this country?

After all, the poor fellows were only trying to make an honest living in order that they might not be a burden on the rest of us.
Given that they are unlikely to be Semites, perhaps the people’s champion, good old Jezza Corbyn will be able to get them back up and running pronto.

no wonder it got pulled…
does kinda stand out…

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Trukkertone:
no wonder it got pulled…
does kinda stand out…

Probably get away with it in Southall :smiley: :smiley:

No racism intended but it must be something about our cousins from the East Indian part of the world and work! Call it work ethic or just wanting to make as much money as possible but I don’t know what it is about them that makes them want to run bent, had a guy at work yesterday trying to plead with the dispatcher to let him work 9 days straight lol. Dispatcher was trying to tell him that it is illegal and he can’t and won’t let him but the driver wouldn’t have it and just kept on asking or trying to compromise. Again, no racism intended

:open_mouth: so you can lose your driving licence for driving on someone elses card.

I’ll not do that again :laughing:

Ghiabox:
:shock: so you can lose your driving licence for driving on someone elses card.

I’ll not do that again [emoji38]

No mention of anyone losing their driving licence (or even of having it endorsed)…

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It’s an easy mistake to make when you’re called David Smith

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Roymondo:

Ghiabox:
:shock: so you can lose your driving licence for driving on someone elses card.

I’ll not do that again [emoji38]

No mention of anyone losing their driving licence (or even of having it endorsed)…

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Yeah I realise now they mean O licence :laughing: