HGV Driver Keeps Vocational (HGV) Entitlement at Driver Conduct Hearing

Martin Smith, specialist road transport law solicitor, represented a vocational licence holder at a driver conduct hearing who had received 10 points on his driving licence for an offence of failing to provide a specimen of breath. The licence holder was a mechanic and required his vocational entitlement in order to drive large goods vehicles to and from maintenance facilities within military bases only. The Traffic Commissioner was unimpressed that a vocational licence holder had failed to co-operate with the police. After hearing detailed submissions the Traffic Commissioner allowed the driver’s vocational licence to continue but issued a formal warning.