Tacho trips up a Yorkshire operator
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IVERS' HOURS and tachograph offences led to Fred K. Holman imbleforth) Ltd, and nine of its drivers, being fined £1,015 with 18 costs by the Selby, North Yorkshire magistrates.
he company was fined £535 h £108 costs after admitting le offences of failing to keep hograph records, seven ofices of permitting drivers to ..:eed their hours, and one ofice of permitting a driver to ve insufficient rest.
rhe drivers were Thomas Cordele (fined £50 with £10 costs two charges of making false ;hograph charts); Keith Bilm (fined £50 on two hours ofIces); Bruce Harris (fined £15 one hours offence); Graham !son (fined £105 with £10 sts on one hours and two false :.hograph record offences); 31vyn Carr (fined £65 with £10 sts on one false tachograph .:ords offence, and one hours fence); Kevin Lofthouse (fined 20 with £10 costs on three se tachograph records ofnces); Christopher Teinor ned £40 with £10 costs for a Ise tachograph record ofrice); Peter Buck (fined £100 on ree hours offences, and one of
lying insufficient rest); and Ar ur Dines (fined E90 with £10 'sts on one false tachograph cord offence, one hours of fence, and one charge of having insufficient rest).
Prosecuting for the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Michael Paterson said the offences came to light during a routine Department of Transport check of the company's tachograph records.
The company was based near Selby, and the drivers were employed on delivering fresh vegetables overnight to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The drivers parked their vehicles when they arrived at the destination, but because the customers required the produce early in the morning, they moved the vehicles during the period they should have been resting.
On some occasions when this had occurred, the drivers had either withdrawn the chart from the tachograph, or had switched the mode to the second man position, giving the impression they were resting.
Some of the hours' offences were obvious on the face of the charts themselves. When interviewed, some of the drivers said they did not understand the tachographs properly.
In mitigation, it was said the offences had been committed at a time when the tachograph legislation was so new that nobody had really understood it.