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Owner-driver fined for using hire vehicle
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AN OWNER-DRIVER who failed to use a tachograph and drove an unauthorised vehicle has been ordered to pay 1450 in fines and costs.
Ramsgate-based Nathan Fuller, trading as Fuller Freight, pleaded guilty to the offences before the Bexley magistrates.
Anthony Ostrin,prosecuting for VOSA, said Fuller had been driving a 7.5-tonner carrying domestic ap pliances which was stopped in a roadside check. Fuller was asked to produce his tachograph record sheet but was unable to do so.
No 0-licence identity disc was being displayed. Enquiries revealed that the vehicle was not specified on any licence and a margin did not exist for it to be included on the day of the check.
Fuller told the court he had hired in a vehicle because his own was under repair. He thought he had a margin on his licence and therefore had a month's grace before informing the Traffic Area Office of the replacement vehicle. He subsequently found out he did not have a margin so on paper he was operating more vehicles than permitted.
He was used to driving vehicles that did not require the use of the tachograph, so he had not inserted a chart on the occasion in question.
Fuller was fined a total of £250 with £200 costs.