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AP: absolute discharge
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• Associated Projects, a sister company of HoIme-onSpalding-Moor haulier B M Cassidy, was last week given an absolute discharge by Doncaster magistrates, after admitting failing to use a tachograph in accordance with the regulations.
The prosecution said one of the company's vehicles had been stopped by police on the M18 motorway last October. When the police officer examined the tachograph chart, it was seen that the driver had driven for more than 41/2 hours without taking the required break and that he had failed to use the mode switch. He said he did not have the previous two days' records because his boss made him hand his charts in every night. On 22 November director Bernard Cassidy was asked to produce the charts but said that he could not find them.
Defending, Stephen Kirk bright said the company, together with B M Cassidy & Co, had traded for 30 years with no previous convictions for tachograph offences. The driver concerned had been with the company for only six weeks.
The vehicle had been involved in a minor accident that day, which the driver had not reported. Neither had he reported that he had been stopped by the police. He was involved in a further accident two days later and he left without telling the company about the accident or that he was leaving.
The company's drivers were given instructions about the requirements with relation to tachographs. Bernard Cassidy denied saying that he could not find the records.
He said it was normal practice for the company's drivers to keep two weeks' records in the cab and when the driver concerned left, the records had not been there.