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'Guilty' plea goes in Gipping drivers' favour
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EIGHT DRIVERS employed by Liverpool-based Gipping Container Services have been ordered to pay £4,070 in fines and costs for a series of hours and tachograph offences.
Appearing before the city magistrates Ronald Tankard pleaded guilty to five offences of falsification, three of driving for more than 4.5 hours without the required break,one of taking insufficient daily rest and one of exceeding the daily driving limit. He was fined £650 with £200 costs.
Paul Delmonte admitted six 4.5-hour driving offences, two daily driving offences and three daily rest offences. He was fined £500 with £200 costs.
John Tyler admitted two daily rest offences, two daily driving offences and one mode switch offence. He was fined £300 with £120 costs.
Andrew Kermode admitted one 4.5-hour offence. He was fined £75 with £780 costs. Malcolm Lewis ad mitted one daily driving offence, one daily rest offence and one mode switch offence, being fined £225 with £100 costs. Michael Barnes admitted one daily rest offence and three mode switch offences, being fined £300 with £100 costs. Robert Kay admitted one offence of falsification, one daily driving offence and one daily rest offence. He was fined £300 with £100 costs.
Patrick Coulter admitted one offence of falsification, one daily rest offence and one daily driving offence. He was fined £300 with £100 costs.
Prosecuting for VOSA, John Heaton said the offences came to light when traffic examiner Sarah Bell examined 346 of the company's tachograph charts for July 2004.The drivers had told her they had received no training from the company on drivers' hours.
Fining the drivers, District Judge Lomax said the fact that they had pleaded guilty had made a significant difference to the penalties.