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Fined for use of car driver
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A Pinner, London-based haulier has been ordered to pay £950 in fines and costs after letting an unqualified driver use one of her trucks without insurance or a tachograph. Carole Mullery, who trades as Eagle Transport, admitted the offences before Uxbridge magistrates.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, said that in February last year a 17.5-tonne two-axie rigid was stopped in a roadside check at Yeading. The driver, Anthony Phillips, produced his driving licence but an inspection revealed that he only held a car licence which meant he did not have valid insurance cover. He was unable to produce his current tachograph disc.
Mullen/ said that Phillips had been available at the last moment to drive and she had previously seen him driving HGVs for another company. She therefore assumed that he had the full entitlement on his licence.
She admitted that she had not checked Phillips' licence. claiming that he had misled her by telling her he didn't have it with him at the time.
Ostrin pointed out that although Mullery had not checked Phillips' licence, it had been produced to the traffic examiner later that day.
Fining Mullery £700 with £250 prosecution costs, the magistrates said she was aware of the regulations and it was her duty to see that they were kept, They did not accept that she had been misled.