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Unwitting hours offences lead
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to suspension and £800 fine A DRIVER'S REPEATED failure to take rest breaks has cost his employer an 18-day suspension of its 0-licence plus an £800 fine for permitting offences to take place.The driver was fined £160.
Pendeford Metal Spinning& which runs only one vehicle, appeared before the West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Roger Seymour. Traffic examiner David Parry said that when the WillenhaU-based company's truck was stopped in a check in July, it was found that the driver. Philip Potter, had twice driven for more than four and a half hours without the required break. Potter had claimed to believe that all the small breaks he had taken would add up.
When the company's tachograph records were examined in September, it was found that Potter had committed a further 13 four-and-a-half-hour driving offences. Asked why the offences had continued, Potter said he had not realised that he could not move the vehicle during a break. Potter was subsequently fined £160 for eight offences and the company was penalised £800 for permitting four of them. Managing director Ralph Humphries said his co-director, who had been in charge of the transport, had left the company. They had not knowingly broken the law and he was now sending the tachograph records for outside analysis.
Suspending the licence, the DTC said these were very serious offences. A lot of accidents involving heavy vehicles were a result of companies and drivers not complying with the hours rules to get ahead of competitors, and it was resulting in an increasing number of serious injuries. Although that was not the case here, he felt some action was appropriate to demonstrate how seriously TCs regarded such offences.