The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland has disqualified a truck driver for 15 months, due to "unacceptable behaviour".

James Tominey's vocational licence will be revoked from 23:59 on 17 July 2015, after she ruled he was no longer fit to be a professional driver.

During hearings in Edinburgh in January and March this year, traffic commissioner Joan Aitken was told that Mr Tominey had committed a number of offences, including not taking the correct legal breaks and rest while driving. Investigators found 39 occasions when he had removed a card designed to record his duties.

In a written decision issued after the hearings, the traffic commissioner said his behaviour was unacceptable.

She added: "Yet again, I use a Traffic Commissioner's written decision to say that these rules on drivers' hours and tachographs are all about protecting drivers from their own fatigue and protecting the rest of us from the driver's fatigue and all the errors of judgement that flow from fatigue. Falling asleep at the wheel is responsible for fatalities and very serious injuries and distress. Mr Tominey imperilled himself, but much worse, he imperilled the rest of us."

The industry regulator also dealt with the driver's former employer, Uddingston based firm DGG Transport.

Aitken made an order to curtail the company's licence to run HGVs for eight weeks, starting at 23:59 on 17 July 2015. The licence will be cut to 22 vehicles.

She said that the company's rapid expansion and impact of a contract for Wiseman had affected the business and "generated heat within the traffic office". There was a failure to ensure compliance.

William Nelson, a former transport manager for the company, was warned as to his professional competence and repute.