£201 Penalties for Record Offences
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ACASE which had been investigated by the Minister of Transport, following questions in the House of Commons, came before Hull Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. I). N. O'Sullivan, last week, when E. Tait, Ltd., Scarborough Street, Hull, were fined a total of £180 and ordered to pay 121 costs.
The company, represented by Mr. R. Keating pleaded guilty to 12 summonses of failing to cause current driving records to be kept and asked for 43 similar offences to be considered. They were fined 05 on each of the 12 summonses.
Mr. E. Wur/al, prosecuting, stated that the company had C licences for seven vehicles and a trailer and their secretary had said they were using log sheets as instructed by the Ministry a few years ago when fuel rationing was in force.
In some cases drivers had worked 821 hours, and in one instance 89i hours, of which 34 hours were not on the records that were shown on the man's time sheet. Mr. Wurzal said that such offences were becoming widespread and something drastic would have to be done.
Mr. Keating said the company were not summoned in respect of excessive hours; but only for failing to keep
records. Therc was no question of deliberately evading the statutes. The prosecution, he said, had not summoned the drivers in relation to records, because they had unwittingly been given the wrong forms to keep.