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Drivers fined after admitting failure to take breaks
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DRIVERS' HOURS offences have led to two Irish lorry drivers being ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £390 by Holyhead Magistrates.
Liam Colbert, of Limerick, pleaded guilty to taking insufficient daily rest and exceeding the daily driving limit. Patrick Lenehan, of Wexford, pleaded guilty to one offence of taking insufficient weekly rest.
Traffic examiner Geoffrey Whitley said that when Colbert was asked why he had failed to take the required daily rest, he said he had promised his wife he would be home and that when his load was cancelled it was his only other option. He understood that he had also exceeded the daily driving limit.
In Lenehan's case, his vehicle, which was carrying groupage between Italy and Ireland via the ports of Dover and Holyhead, had been stopped in a check at Dalar Hir, Anglesey. The eight tachograph charts produced showed he should have started a weekly rest period the day before.
Colbert was fined £150 and Lenehan £100 and they were each ordered to pay £70 costs.