Preliminary Hearing over in 30 Minutes as Traffic Commissioner’s Concerns Allayed by Documents Submitted Beforehand.

This Operator, represented at preliminary hearing by barrister Harry Bowyer, was called into a preliminary hearing as one of his drivers tested positive for cocaine at a roadside stop. The operator had suspended the driver as soon as he knew the nature of the stop and commissioned an audit from a competent transport consultant. This audit was “warts and all” and showed a number of minor failings which the operator had fixed or was in the process of fixing which impressed the Traffic Commissioner rather more that an audit that was merely a whitewash. The Traffic Commissioner  decided to take no further action subject to a couple of undertakings.