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Using vehicles with defective speed limiters has cost Northop, Flintshire based Brooks Haulage £4,085 in fines and costs.

21st June 2001, Page 21
21st June 2001
Page 21
Page 21, 21st June 2001 — Using vehicles with defective speed limiters has cost Northop, Flintshire based Brooks Haulage £4,085 in fines and costs.
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When it appeared before the Flintshire magistrates the company pleaded guilty to 38 limiter offences: driver Peter Manuel pleaded guilty to 18 offences. The company was fined £4,000 with £85 costs. Manuel was fined £750 with £70 costs.

In an associated case driver Paul Francis had previously been fined 21,000 with £70 costs for 20 limiter offences.

Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Peter Edwards said the offences were discovered during a routine check on the company's tachograph records in March. An examination of the speed limiter systems of the two vehicles concerned revealed that they were inoperative.

When interviewed, Manuel had said that he had been aware of the problem and had reported it. When asked when that was, he had replied: "Early to mid-February at a guess." Asked if he had ever reporte( the defect in writing, Manuel ha( replied that he hadn't as he ha( no defect book.

When asked if he had any thing further to say to thi hearing, Manuel had repliec "Only that I did not know it wa such a serious offence an' that the vehicle had to be take off the road."

Jones said that when Franci had been asked when he ha first realised that the speed lirr iter on his vehicle was defectivE he had replied: "It must hay been about October."


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