E155 fine for poultry firm
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P A Yorkshire poultry firm which had gned the impression that its drivers were quired to record only the number of hours -..tually spent behind the wheel found itself :fore Bradford City magistrates last week iced with 31 charges of _failing to cause rrent drivers' hours and records to be kept 'id causing drivers to exceed the permitted 21 hours duty period in any one day.
Mr N. Patterson, prosecuting on behalf the Yorkshire LA, said that the company, /ebb's Poultry Products (Bradford) Ltd, hich pleaded guilty to all the charges, had :en running vehicles from Bradford to :otland carrying two drivers, one of whom .ove the vehicle on the return trip. owever, when the log books of the four turned drivers involved were examined ere was no record whatsoever of the urney up to Scotland_ The offences had been discovered following an investigation by DoE traffic examiner Mr R. Hewitt, who had been given reason to believe that offences of this nature were being committed. Mr Hewitt had interviewed the managing drector of the company, Mr B. Webb, and had told him of the offences. Mr Webb said that in that type of business, time was of the essence but added that warning notices regarding this sort of offence had been fitted in all vehicle cabs.
The magistrate took into account another conviction when Webb's Poultry Products had been fined £1 on four counts on March 21 1969 for failing to cause drivers to keep current records.
In all, the magistrate fined Webb's Poultry Products a total of £155, £5 on each of the 31 charges and allowed 28 days for payment.