£4,200 for no breaks
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• A Spanish i■ wry driver spent a night in the cells after a traffic examiner found he had driven for 12 consecutive days.
Pedro Maria Ranajo-Zayora, of Luismara. Tolosa, pleaded guilty through an interpreter to six offences of failing to take a weekly rest period and one offence of exceeding four and a half hours driving without taking the required break.
He was fined £4200 by Coventry magistrates. Traffic examiner Dominic Green said Ranajo-Zayora's vehicle was stopped on the A45 in Coventry. When asked why he had driven for five and a half hours without a break. Ranajo-Zayora said he was in a hurry.
Green said that he doubted Ranajo-Zayora's claims that he had used his tractor unit for private purposes on Sunday, as tachograph charts showed that he drove 205km that day The magistrates fined RanajoZayora £600 per offence and ordered him to pay £75 prosecution costs.