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Four hours offences cost driver £600
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FOUR INFRINGEMENTS of the drivers' hours rules have cost an Essex driver £600 in lines and costs.
When Mark Clark of Stanford le Hope appeared before the Harlow magistrates he pleaded guilty to three charges of exceeding four-and-a-half hours' driving without the required 45-minute break ,and to one charge of taking insufficient rest in a 24-hour period. He was fined f100 for each offence with £200 costs.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, told the court that Clark's record sheets had been inspected at the premises of his employer, Sensa Transport UK, of West Hornden.
In the first case, Clark had driven for 7hr 43min with only a 21min break. On a second occasion he had driven for 7hr Omin with only a 21min break: and a third chart showed he had driven for 5hr 56min with no break at all.
"In respect of the fourth charge," said Ostrin, "Mr Clark had taken only eight hours 22 minutes' rest in a 24-hour period when he should have taken a minimum of nine hours."