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Hours rules confusii

17th December 1998
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• A driver was given a conditional discharge by West Bromwich magistrates for exceeding his hours after he became confused over the regulations for domestic and European driving.

John Collins, 56, who drives for Wrexham firm Humphries & Williams, admitted eight charges of exceeding the iihour working day as a domestic driver.

Malcolm Seward, prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, told the magistrates Collins was stopped near the M6 at Perry Barr, Birmingham, driving a cargo of animal carcases.

He had exceeded the 11-hour working day eight times in March, by between 1 three hours.

But Andrew Woolfal ing, said Collins h; involved in an unusual where he had been cor to whether the domesti limit of 11 hours api whether the European 1 was more appropriate.

"He chose the E timescale which was lc he should have been under the domestic lit working hours," said "My client has been a 38 years. He has a got and suffers from slippe Collins was given a c al discharge for six me told to pay £65 costs.


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