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SIX DRIVERS working for Seville Tank Cleaning of Salford were fined a total of £930 with £210 costs last week after they admitted falsifying tachograph records and breaches of the drivers' hours and rest provisions before Leigh, Lancashire magistrates.
Christopher Worthy, prosecuting for the North Western Licensing Authority, said that the hours and tachograph regulations protected the public from drivers suffering from fatigue.
The offences had come to light during a routine check of the company's tachograph records for a period of three months.
David Phelps was fined £50 on one charge of making a false entry in a tachograph chart. He said that he had only worked for the company a week and had left because he thought he was being given more work than he could cope with.
Joseph Kimmer was fined £240 on two charges of making false entries, six of excessive hours and insufficient rest and one of failing to enter the required information on a tachograph chart.
He said that in one instance he had been threatened by pickets at Hull docks and he had driven out of the area to spend the night, thereby going over his hours.
In another his vehicle was travelling at 6 Omph on a motorway service area slip road, where he was going to stop, and he had opened the tachograph too soon.
John Noon was fined £160 on two charges of making false entries and three of excessive hours. Colin Warrington was fined £120 on two charges of making false entries and one of excessive hours.
Lawrence Oliver was fined £150 on two charges of false records and three of excessive hours.
Timothy Hourigan was fined £200 on two charges of making false entries and five of excessive hours. The drivers were ordered to pay £35 costs each.
The company pleaded not guilty to causing the drivers to make false entries, to permitting the hours and rest offences and to 26 allegations that it had failed to produce records. The magistrates adjourned the hearing until a date to be fixed in February.
• In December 1983 Hennessey Transport of Mort Lane, Tyldesley, and its transport manager, Ronald Hennessey, were fined a total of £75,400 by Leigh magistrates for drivers' hours offences including the falsification of tachograph records. That sum was subsequently reduced to £53,950 following an appeal in March 1984.
• Seville Tank Cleaning has been summonsed to appear be fore Huddersfield magistrates on January 22 on two charges alleging breaches of regulations governing the carriage of dangerous substances by road.
The prosecutions, brought by the Factory Inspectorate, allege incorrect labelling of a tanker and failure to provide a driver with information about his load and follow an investigation into an incident in which a poison gas cloud was created while chemicals were being delivered to a company at Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield.