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Driver with two jobs fined 000 for hours offences

9th December 2004
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A PART-TIME driver has been fined £300 for daily and weekly rest offences because he failed to include as duty time the hours he spent working full-time for another employer.

Gareth Evans, of Anglesey, employed part-time by Isle of Anglesey haulier Dylan Parry, trading as DL Parry, appeared before Holyhead Magistrates and pleaded guilty to eight offences of taking insufficient daily rest and two of taking insufficient weekly rest.

Traffic examiner Geoffrey Whitley said Parry held a licence for five vehicles and five trailers and his core business involved the haulage of trailers on behalf of Norfolk Line. He had visited Parry's premises in March and examined tachograph charts. It appeared that casual drivers for Parry were not recording other work prior to and after the duty time recorded on the charts.

In Evans' case he was a part-time employee who was employed full-time by Homebuild Supplies, a division ofJewson. An inspection of iewson's records revealed the offences. The daily rest taken by Evans varied between three hours 45 minutes and seven hours five minutes. He had also worked for 11 and 19 consecutive days without taking the required weekly rest.

The magistrates tined Evans £300 with £70 prosecution costs.


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