Hours and Records: Many Fines
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E'INES totalling £100, with £25 10s.
costs, have recently been imposed on. three Yorkshire defendants for various offences, particularly in connection with drivers' records and hours.
For aiding and abetting a driver to alter a record, Thomas Roland Turner, of High Street, Bridlington, was fined £10, with £3 3s. costs, at Bridlington Magistrates' Cciiirt. He was also tined .E3 for carrying goods which he had not authority to carry.
For using a vehicle without having appropriate insurance cover he was fined £5, with a further £2 for permitting the vehicle to be used without such cover, and his driving licence was suspended for 12 months. On one charge of unauthorized use of motor fuel he was fined £1, with £4 10s. costs, but another charge of the same nature was withdrawn.
In the same case, James Arthur Pickering, of Havelock Crescent, Bridlington, was fined £5, with £2 2s. costs, for altering a driver's record.
Fines totalling £74, with £15 15s. costs, were imposed upon W. Hinchliffe and Sons (Sheffield), Ltd., Pitt Street, Sheffield, at the local magistrates' court, for convictions on 37 charges concerning drivers' hours. These charges included 12 of employing persons to drive for more than 11 hours in 24, 18 of employing persons to drive without 10 consecutive hours for rest, and seven of employing persons to drive for a continuous period of more than 5i hours.