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A Liverpool haulier who sold a vehicle to one of
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his drivers and then provided him with work admitted aiding and abetting the driver to use the vehicle without an Operator's Licence when he appeared before the city's magistrates.
Bootle-based Jeffrey Stobbs, trading as JR Stobbs Transport, admitted four offences of failing to produce tachograph records, six of aiding and abetting the unauthorised use of the vehicle by the driver David Reston and 14 of permitting its use with a defective tachograph. He was tined £900 with £100 costs.
Reston pleaded guilty to eight offences of failing to produce tachograph records and six of unauthorised use. He was fined £250 with £100 costs.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Stephen Rodgers said tachograph charts produced in August showed that the vehicle's tachograph had been defective for some time while used by another driver. As the defect was obvious he had at the very least been reckless over its condition and had permitted its use.
When Stobbs had been asked to produce further tachograph records for the vehicle he had said that he had sold the vehicle to Reston and had since employed him as a subcontractor car rying timber from Birkenhead Docks to a processing plant.
Rodgers added that when Reston was interviewed he said he had thrown the tachograph charts away because as he was working for himself he did not think he had to produce them for anybody.
Tim Culpin. appearing for Stubbs and Reston, said that Reston had now obtained his own 0licence. Stobbs had sold the vehicle to Reston to try and help him and had given him an operating base and work. But he accepted that he should have checked that Reston had acquired a licence.