Vocational Driver Escapes with Short Suspension Following Mobile Telephone Offence

This driver, represented by Millicent Dooher, faced a Driver Conduct Hearing before the Traffic Commissioner following a mobile telephone (CU80) offence. The starting point for this offence is a 4-week suspension of a driver’s vocational entitlements.

Millicent was able to persuade the Traffic Commissioner to come away from the staring point and the Traffic Commissioner imposed a 14-day suspension to start 3 weeks later, in order to allow the driver to get into a better financial position before the start of the suspension.

Mobile telephone offences are deemed serious by the police and the Traffic Commissioner. A mobile phone offence carries a mandatory 6 penalty points by the police and the Traffic Commissioner has a starting point of a 4-week suspension. If you are a vocational driver that has a mobile telephone offence, the Traffic Commissioner will call you in to look at your vocational licence. Get it touch with one of our lawyers today and see whether we can help you.