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Shearinis chart gaps
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• Coach operator Smiths Shearings does have a case to answer with respect to a series of alleged tachograph offences, Wigan magistrates have decided.
The company had been accused of 150 offences of permitting drivers to fail to use tachographs, 150 offences of (Ong to ensure drivers handed in tachograph charts within 21 days, and 150 offences of failing to produce tachograph charts. However, 63 of the permitting charges, 12 of the charges relating to failures to hand in charts and 12 relating to failing to produce charts were withdrawn.
Prosecuting, David Eccles said that observations had been kept on Smiths Shearings vehicles entering and leaving the company's teaming and lading point at Cranage, in June and July 1988.
When the company was asked to produce charts for the vehicles concerned there were "great and glaring gaps".
Traffic examiner Harry Buckley said there were no drivers' hours offences arising out of the examination of over 3,500 charts produced, and agreed there had been no observation of the vehicles concerned on many of the dates on which it was alleged offences had been committed.
PC Graham Robinson of Greater Manchester Police, said the investigation followed allegations from drivers employed both by the company and other operators that Smiths Shearings were not using tachgraphs on tour "feeder" services.
Robinson accepted there would be no tachograph charts for vehicles engaged on "out of scope" work, but did not accept that tour "feeder" services into Cr.mage were regular services and therefore "out of scope".
The magistrates adjourned the hearing.