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Administrative errors blamed for drivers' hours offences
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A MANCHESTER operator has been ordered to pay £6,148 in fines and costs after permitting a driver to breach the drivers' hours rules, failing to produce tachograph records and using an unauthorised operating centre.
Geometric Furniture pleaded guilty at Rochdale magistrates court to four offences of permitting Robert Burden to drive for more than four and a half hours without the required break; three of permitting him to exceed the daily driving limit:and one of permitting him to take insufficient daily rest.
It also used an unauthorised operating centre and failed to produce tachograph charts.
Burden was fined £350 with E115 costs after he pleaded guilty to driving for more than four and a half hours without the required break, exceeding the daily driving limit and taking insufficient daily rest.
Prosecuting for Vosa, John Heaton said the hours offences were discovered during a routine check on company tachograph records. The traffic examiner had called at the authorised operating centre at Heywood. but found a sign indicating that it had moved to Middleton.There were significant gaps in the tachograph records with an initial 37.152km unrecorded; this was subsequently reduced to 28,660km.
Burden said he was not an HGV driver and had learned about hours and tachographs from another driver.
In a letter to the court, the company said that the offences had occurred because of administrative errors and there had been no malicious intent.
Burden's offences came from his misunderstanding of the rules governing tachographs due to the company's failure to deal with them as soon as they occurred.
They had learned from this and additional administra Live staff had been employed to help oversee the transport documentation. •