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ProsecutionDrop Hours Test Case

13th February 1959
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ATEST case to decide whether a lorry driver can drive home by car after completing his permitted hours of driving away from base was completed at Spilsby on Monday (The Commercial Motor, January 23).

At an earlier hearing it was said that drivers employed by Shaw Bros., -produce merchants, Friskney, drove home after completing their hours using cars brought by the relief drivers. This could involve considerable additional mileage, the prosecution pointed out.

Two summonses brought by the East Midlands Licensing Authority against a driver for failing to have at least 10 hours' consecutive rest in 24 were dismissed after the defence had staled that

once the driver left the lorry he was not under the direction of his employer.

Two summonses against Shaw Bros. for permitting the alleged offences were then adjourned to allow the prosecution to consider the matter. Also adjourned was a summons against another driver. coupled with another summons against the employers.

Can Monday the court was told that the prosecution had decided to withdraw the charges,

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