Court accepts exemption for highway maintenance
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• Brompton-on-Swale-based Bruce Cook Planing was cleared of using a vehicle without a tachograph after magistrates accepted it was being used for road maintenance, making it exempt from European rules.
Senior traffic examiner Malcolm Bentley told Sleaford magistrates that when a tipping vehicle pulling a trailer carrying a mad planing machine was stopped the driver produced written records. Sean O'Callaghan, the firm's regional manager, said that its drivers had used record books since 1982 because the vehicles were working on highway maintenance.
John Hodgson. for the Vehicle Inspectorate, argued that the road planing machine was exempt, but not the tipper, which could be used for other purposes.
But the court accepted that the regulations referred to the use of a vehicle for the carriage of highway maintenance equipment.