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• A defective speed limiter and using an unauthorised operating centre have cost Thornton Rubber, Manchester £475 in fines and costs.
The company initially pleaded not guilty but failed to appear before the Rochdale magistrates to answer the charges and was convicted in its absence.
Traffic examiner Michael Power said that last December a Renault six-axle 38-tonne artic driven by director Andrew
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Thornton was stopped in a check at the Thornham Island dynamic axle weighbridge. A check of Thornton's tacho graph charts showed speeds over the 90kmfh limit going up to 120km/h. The speed limiter was clearly not working. Tachograph charts for the vehicle were obtained for 6 October to 24 November. These showed the vehicle regularly started and finished work at Ogden.
Thornton had given his personal address as Charity Farm, Higher Ogden, Newhey, Rochdale. The nominated operating centre on the company's licence was Jersey Street, Ancoats, Manchester.
The magistrates fined the company £200 per offence with £75 costs.