Custom Speed is warned on hours
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• Merseyside haulage company Custom Speed escaped with a warning when it appeared at disciplinary-proceedings before North Western LA Martin Albu, following convictions for drivers' hours and tachograph offences.
The LA was prepared to authorise the company to change the operating centre of its licence, for six vehicles and four trailers, from a site in Newton le Willows to the Sankey Valley Industrial Estate, Earlstown.
Director Paul Clement said Custom Speed had been prosecuted by the police for 22 offences, the bulk of which related to faults on the centre fields of tachograph charts; for instance, not doing the subtraction for the mileage, not entering the finishing date, and entering the name wrongly. There was also one offence relating to excess hours and a number for driving 41/2 hours and taking 14-minute instead of 15-minute breaks.
Since the convictions, the company had made sure its charts were checked by the Freight Transport Association.