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Fine of £300 for hours offences
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A series of drivers' hours offences cost Bedford lorry driver Anthony Oatt £300 in fines and costs when he appeared before the town's magistrates.
Oatt, of Durham Close, Bedford, pleaded guilty to three offences of taking insufficient daily rest, one of exceeding the daily driving limit and seven of taking insufficient weekly rest, Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Anthony Ostrin told the court that last September an artic driven by Oatt was stopped in a routine check. When his tachograph charts were examined it could be seen that offences had been committed. Further charts were examined in November and they revealed the remainder of the offences. Oatt said that it was difficult to comply with the hours and rest regulations with traffic conditions as they currently were.
Fining Dan £200, and ordering him to pay 1100 towards the costs of the prosecution, the magistrates said that these were serious matters. The fines were lower than usual because of his financial circumstances, but should he appear before them again for similar offences far more substantial penalties would be imposed.