Driver fined £90 for hree offences
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1 The case before the court was a good icample of the worst sort of offence ommitted by lorry drivers, with records eliberately falsified to conceal the working f excessive hours. They then, very often, id not appear, believing they could earn tote by staying at work than it would cost iem in fines.
This was submitted to Wigan magistrates 1st week by Mr J. S. Lawton, prosecuting Jr the North Western Licensing Authority .1 the case of Harold Bond of Wigan Road, Vesthoughton, Lanes, a driver employed iy Sterling Mansell Ltd, Horwich, who was harged with two offences of falsifying ecords and one of exceeding 11 hours ontinuous duty.
Bond failed to appear and Mr Lawton said that, on April 26, his 1.ory was seen by Mr H. C. Brooks, a DoE traffic examiner, parked at Hindley on the outskirts of Wigan. Subsequent inspection of his records for the period concerned disclosed that at the time it was seen at Hindley it should have been in Farnborough, -lants.
Bond made a statement admitting drawing two nights subsistence from his employers, who were in n9 way to blame and had believed he had stayed two nights at Farnborough delivering a load and reloading for the return journey. In fact he had driven home each night, returning the following day.
The magistrates ordered Bond to pay a total of £90, fining him £25 for each offence plus £15 costs.