Hours breaches cost Tweed £4,535
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• Permitting drivers to exceed the hours limits and take insufficient rest has cost a South Yorkshire company £4,535 in fines and costs.
Rotherham-based GW Tweed & Sons pleaded guilty before Doncaster magistrates to eight offences of permitting drivers to exceed the daily driving limit and to take insufficient daily and weekly rest. It was fined 24,500 and ordered to pay 235 prosecution costs. The court was told the company had been working as subcontractor for the Redland Group and the work scheduled could not be completed by the drivers within the permitted drivers' hours limits. The vehicles were leased from Redland and the charges before the magistrates were specimens of 98 offences revealed by a check on the company's tachograph charts.