Dock drivers' 0-Licence holder
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• A number of drivers appeared before Lewes Magistrates following checks carried out by Department of Transport traffic examiners on lorries at Newhaven Docks.
Falsifying tachograph charts by pulling the fuse from its electronic tachograph cost David Ingram of Seaford, East Sussex, £375 in fines and costs. Three falsification offences cost Steven Harris of Brighton an identical fine.
John Novell of Mitcham, Surrey, paid £300 in fines and costs for failing to produce tachograph charts and failing to use his tachograph.
Also fined for similar offences were Andrew Gallup of Melts near Frome, and Derek Hawkes of Brighton. • Newhaven haulier Daniel Ersser has been found guilty of using vehicles without tachograph charts, plating or test certificates, despite defence arguments that he did not 'own' the vehicles.
He was fined £1,625 and ordered to pay £250 costs.
The defence case rested on the argument that there was no solid evidence that the drivers of the vehicles, who had already admitted tachograph offences at an earlier hearing, were Ersser's employees, or that he owned the trucks in question.
Stephen Wedd, prosecuting for the South Eastern Traffic Area, said that an 0-Licence had been issued to Ersser.
He had an agent relationship with the drivers and, on that basis, Ersser had a duty to make drivers aware of the tachograph and hours regulations.