£1,900 for hours breaches
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• Breaches of the 41-hour driving rule have cost JHM Pargiter Transport, of Stroud, and five of the company's drivers £1,930 in fines and costs.
Appearing before the Stroud magistrates, Stephen Field, Kevin Hall and Peter Hook each admitted one offence, and David Dunne and Peter Butcher admitted two offences. They were fined £120 per offence and ordered to pay £30 costs apiece. The company admitted permitting the offences and was fined £840 with £120 costs.
Prosecuting for the Department of Transport, Edward Lyons said that a routine check had resulted in traffic examiners visiting the company's premises and inspecting tachograph records. The offences had been obvious on the faces of the charts. For the company, it was said that it had no previous convictions. The offences were all of the same type and a new procedure had been instituted to ensure they did not recur.
In January another of the company's drivers, Stewart Wall, of Nailsworth, was fined £480 and ordered to pay £30 costs, after admitting one 41-hour offence, one offence of exceeding the daily driving limit and two of taking insufficient daily rest.