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F CASE FOUR
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Driver knowingly breached hours rules
A FAILURE to take a daily rest period has cost Port Talbot lorry driver Simon Woollard £382 in fines and costs.
Woollard, of Cathedral Way, Bishop Mead, Port Talbot, admitted the offence when called before Wrexham Magistrates.
Nia Lloyd, prosecuting for Vosa, said that an artic belonging to Dundalk-based Dublin Trinity Transport, which was being driven by Woollard, was stopped in a check in June at the Ewloe check site on the A494.
An examination of Woollard's tachograph charts showed he had failed to take a minimum daily rest period. Having started duty at 16:30 hours the previous day, he should have commenced a daily rest period at 07:30 hours that day.
His vehicle was stopped at 10:00 hours and the traffic examiner believed he would have carried on his journey to Holyhead Port, a journey of about two more hours.
Woollard made no comment to the traffic examiner about the alleged offences. Woollard said he wished to apologise. He knew that he had been wrong, but the reason he had been driving so long was because he was delayed from Calais to Dover on the boat and he had an urgent load of pharmaceuticals on board. He was shipping them from Holyhead to Dublin.
The magistrates fined Woollard £200 and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £182.