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Driver fined 050 for hours offences
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A DRIVER ARRESTED for failing to attend a magistrate's court on hours offences was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £350. In fining Darwen truck driver David Simpson, Rochdale Magistrates warned that drivers' hours and tachograph offences "can be a matter of life and death". Simpson, who works for Bolton haulierW Johnson Haulage,pleaded guilty to falsifying a tachograph chart,three of fences of exceeding 4.5 hours driving without taking the required break. two of exceeding the daily driving limit and one of taking insufficient daily rest. He had been arrested after failing to attend a previous hearing.
John Heaton, prosecuting for Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), said the offences came to light during a routine check of the firm's tachograph records. He pointed out that the purpose of the regulations was to prevent the danger that arose from tired drivers being behind the wheel of heavy vehicles. Simpson said the 4.5-hour driving offences were mainly a miscalculation, but on one journey he received a call saying his father had died which affected his concentration. He nevertheless had to go on with the job. He now had a tachtrack instrument to help him comply with the hours limits. He and the other drivers employed by Johnson's had attended a Road Haulage Association drivers' hours and tacho graph course. He was engaged on multideliveries and it was hard to keep a recor admitted falsifying a chart. He earned £ week after tax but had high outgoings. I Simpson £200, with £150 costs, the magis said: "These offences can be a matter of lii death but we are satisfied now that you t stand the seriousness of this. The offenc serious but you are of modest means al fine you accordingly."