Archive: Driver Conduct Hearings
Two Week Suspension From Traffic Commissioner for LGV Driver After Guilty Plea to Two Mobile Phone Offences.
Millicent Dooher, barrister, represented the driver at the Driver Conduct Hearing, after the driver had pleaded guilty on a Single Justice Procedure Notice to two offences of driving whilst using a mobile phone. As a result of the conviction, the driver received 6 penalty points and a fine. Owing to […]
Good Result for Speeding HGV Driver at Driver Conduct Hearing
Our solicitor Laura Newton represented a driver who had committed 2 speeding offences in a company HGV, both times travelling at 55mph in a 40mph area. He was called to a driver conduct hearing before the Traffic Commissioner. Although the Statutory Document suggests a 6 week suspension, the Traffic Commissioner, […]
Using Phone Behind the Wheel – Suspension Reduced from Starting Point at Driver Conduct Hearing
This driver, represented at the driver conduct hearing by barrister, Harry Bowyer, pleaded guilty when the Single Justice Procedure Notice arrived after he was caught using his mobile whilst driving an HGV. As a result of this conviction and the 6 penalty points accrued as a result the driver was […]
HGV Driver Avoids Revocation for Fraudulent Behaviour at Driver Conduct Hearing
Martin Smith, specialist road transport solicitor, represented a vocational licence holder at a driver conduct hearing. The driver had obtained, but never used, a vocational licence prior to gaining employment in an office. Although he had not undertaken his driver CPC training and did not have a driver CPC card, […]
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 […]
Driver Conduct Hearing: Driver has both HGV and PSV Licences Returned after Disqualification
Helen Newbold, specialist road transport barrister, represented this driver who was facing a driver conduct hearing to regain his vocational licences for both HGV’s and PSV’s after a disqualification of his private driving licence. With a new position of professional driving work having been offered it was critical that this […]
Driver Conduct Hearing: Vocational Licence to be returned following offences of failing to provide a specimen of breath, driving whilst disqualified and driving without insurance.
Martin Smith represented at a Traffic Commissioner’s Driver Conduct Hearing a driver who had been disqualified from driving by a Magistrates Court for an offence of failing to provide a sample of breath. The case was complicated as police officers parked near to the driver’s house had seen him driving […]
Driving Licence Sanctions Avoided after Frank Driver Conduct Hearing
A self employed driver, represented by Barrister Helen Newbold, avoided receiving any sanctions on his driving licence at a recent driver conduct hearing. It was alleged that the driver had previously failed to cooperate fully with the DVSA at an interview and failed to attend an earlier Public Inquiry. After […]
HGV Driver Regains His Vocational Licence At Driver Conduct Hearing
Barrister Helen Newbold was instructed to represent a driver in his application to regain his LGV licence after an unhappy history of road traffic offences. In order to satisfy the Traffic Commissioner that he could trust the driver not to commit similar offences in the future, Helen Newbold was able […]
Driver Avoids Suspension for Tachograph Offences
An HGV driver, represented by SBC, had been called to a Driver Conduct Hearing for tachograph offences. At the roadside, the DVSA had found evidence of a second driver card in use in potentially suspicious circumstances. SBC were able to demonstrate to the Traffic Commissioner that the driver had not […]
