PROSECUTIONS FOLLOW ROAD CHECK THIRTY-FIVE lorry and van drivers I
1st December 1961, Page 37
1st December 1961
Page 37
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— PROSECUTIONS FOLLOW ROAD CHECK THIRTY-FIVE lorry and van drivers I
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and a number of employers were fined a total of £79 10s. at Worthing on Monday for offences under the Road Traffic Act, 1960, in not keeping a record of hours worked.
Mr. J. A. P. Bartlett, who prosecuted for the Ministry of Transport, said the prosecutions arose from a check made on the Upper Brighton Road, Worthing, on July 14 by Ministry of Transport traffic examiners.
Mr. Bartlett said the summonses against the drivers were for failing to keep records and, in the case of employers, failing to cause the records to be kept. He said the law was that journeys had to be recorded as soon as they occurred. In the cases before the court, in some instances records were deficient, and in others they had not been kept at all. •