Starfleet cleared on tachos
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• Starfleet Commercials of Manchester has been cleared of failing to issue a driver with tachograph charts. Leyland Magistrates also cleared driver John McCormick of failing to use a tachograph.
The prosecution said that a vehicle displaying trade plates, and driven by McCormick, was stopped in a check at Salmesbury. The vehicle was unladen. McCormick was not using the tachograph and had kept no record. The prosecution's contention was that he was required to use the tachograph.
Evidence was given that the company had 80 sets of trade plates and had been contracted by Iveco Ford agents Chatfields of Stoke-on-Trent to move the vehicle, which had been damaged, from the main agents at Bootle to bodybuilders in Accrington.
Defending, John Backhouse argued that the term "rebuilt" included vehicles that had been partially rebuilt and were going elsewhere to have work done to them. The definition of "carriage by road" in the tachograph regulations was "any journey by road of a vehicle, whether laden or not, used for the carriage of passengers or goods".