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R employed by Sleighthohn (Potatoes), York, was found to have two sets of record each day, Selby magistrates were told. If stopped by police or traffic examiners in the le showed them book no. 1 which appeared to be in order, and if stopped in the afternoon I book no. 2 which also appeared to be in order. only when the two were "married" that it became hat excessive hours g worked.
vas revealed by 'aterson, prosecuting arkshire traffic area, company was fined a :1,130 on hours and ffences and ordered 1 costs.
npany pleaded guilty mces, including failise current records to permitting excessive I failing to maintain a f the issue of drivers' )oks.
tded not guilty to .wo drivers to make les on 12 occasions ie charge of permitriver to exceed 60 ty in a working week. aterson said the :ame to light when a Is arrested by police other matter and )und in the cab of his rere passed to traffic amination showed driver concerned, Antony Binns, had ,eping two record 'he other driver inthe false entry alleWilfred Gordon id, had in addition to iary driving record ,me" sheet.
howed hours far in 7 those shown in the It revealed he had t. total of 93 hours in < and as much as 20 each of two separate lence Mr Sutherland Lad worked excessive it was the only way in could get the work him done and he norrked around 70 hours 5 paid £85 cash in his the week in which he had worked 93 hours.
Derek Sleightholm, managing director, said he had only issued Mr Binns with one record book and he had no knowledge that he had been keeping two books.
Mr Binns had been dismissed for deceiving the company in another matter — his disqualification from driving.
Time sheets had been printed for the company in May but had never in fact been -issued to the driver. He did not know how Mr Sutherland could have got hold of one.
If his time sheet was right it would have meant something like 73 hours' driving in the week, which was impossible.
He maintained that evidence from a traffic examiner that he had said Mr Sutherland was the only "bloke" who made time sheets out was a fabrication. He had no idea why Mr Sutherland should have filled the sheet in. •