Fined for "false" name
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nA crane driver employed by Fergusons Transport of Speen Bridge has been ordered to pay £330 in fines and costs for allowing another driver to use his name on a tachograph record.
Michael Oliver, of Speen Bridge, Inverness, appeared before the Wallasey magistrates. He admitted aiding and abetting Robert Lloyd, who drives for Ruthin-based LE Jones, to falsify a tachograph record, to exceed 10 hours driving and to take insufficient daily rest. Lloyd admitted four offences of falsification, four of taking insufficient daily rest, and one of exceeding 10 hours' driving.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Albert Oldfieid said the offences came to light following a check on LE Jones' tachograph records as part of an ongoing investigation. The company's vehicles were used to haul timber from Birkenhead Docks to a processing plant at Chirk; Ferguson Transport was contracted to use mobile cranes to unload the ships at Birkenhead.
When asked how his name came to be on a tachograph chart when the driving had been done by Lloyd. Oliver had said: "The original driver asked me fill out the card for him. I did n stop to think about the cossit consequences."
For Lloyd, Steven Aylis so the offences were out of chara ter. Pointing out that the VI N examined a substantial numb' of tachograph records, he so that the charges were not spei men charges—the offenci before the court were the or ones Lloyd had committed.