Relief for Cl trailer work
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• Hauliers with a standard national licence may now pick up Channel Island trailers from Portsmouth docks and deliver inland.
This follows a magistrates' decision over Portsmouth owner driver Anthony Sprake, which the police are now willing to accept.
"While this was only a magistrates' decision, we are reliably informed that the police will not appeal and therefore any contractor with a national standard licence may pull Channel Islands trailers," Sprake's counsel, transport consultant Ward and Associates says.
The decision states that any haulier picking up Channel Islands trailers from Portsmouth is only completira national journey.
Following EEC definitions, no frontier is crossed when hauliers travel between the mainland and the islands, the Portsmouth magistrates decided.
Sprake had been collecting Jersey trailers from the docks when he was charged by police for failing to produce seven day's tachograph records and carrying out an international journey on a standard national licence. But the magistrates dismissed the charges.