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Boat omissions earn 2900 fine
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Drivers' hours and tachograph offences led to a driver employed by John Smith Bulk Powders being ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £900.
Kevin Pryce Williams pleaded guilty to five offences of falsifying tachograph records, four offences of failing to use a tachograph, two of exceeding the daily driving limit and one of taking insufficient daily rest at Liverpool Magistrates Court.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, John Heaton said that Williams had falsified charts by failing to record ferry tourneys and there were occasions when the odometer readings did not match the 'V trace. In addition, on one occasion Williams had driven for a total of 16 hours 22 minutes with only seven hours 20 minutes rest.
Williams said that the drivers' hours rules were complicated, particularly in regard to ferry Journeys and he had not realised how he should deal with the movement off the boat. He had been driving for five or six years but it was only in the last two years that he had been driving abroad and using ferries. Since the offences, his employers had issued him with the VI's drivers' hours manual.
District Judge Lomax commented that the offences were serious, particularly the five false records offences, which carried the threat of imprisonment at the Crown Court.
Williams said that he had not realised the severity of the offence at the time.
Fining Williams £150 on each of the false records offences, and ordering him to pay E150 prosecution costs the District Judge said: "These are serious offences. I have to be practical however, about your means and I have to look at the offences as a whole as a course of conduct. I am going to fine you for the false records offences and give you a conditional discharge for 12 months on the other matters."