Fined for tacho and tyre
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• A police check at a Derbyshire tip has cost Stokeon-Trent-based driver Robert Lewis .C400 in fines and costs with three penalty points Appearing before High Peak magistrates, Lewis pleaded guilty to failing to keep a tachograph record; failing to produce tachograph records and using a vehicle with a defective tyre. His employer, Paul Higton of Leek. admitted using the vehicle with a defective tyre.
He was fined £70 with £30 costs and three penalty points.
Lewis said there was a fault on the tachograph and it was not recording. He had not exceeded his hours, so there was no reason for him not to use the tachograph. "I wasn't trying to swing it," he said. He had checked the tyres on the truck, hut he had not noticed the defect.
A letter from Higton's solicitors said he had been in business for a number of years and this was the first time he had been charged with an offence. He was not driving the vehicle at the time and the defect was a minor one.