Goodway loses on training fine appeal
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• Felixstowe-based haulier Goodway has lost its appeal against a £13,000 fine imposed for causing drivers to take insufficient weekly rest by sending them on weekend hazchem training courses.
Judge John Turner ordered the haulier to pay .C1,000 of the Department of Transport's appeal costs.
'rhe company was fined £500 on each of 26 offences in September after a director ignored advice from a traffic examiner that what it was planning to do was unlawful (CM 814 September).
The company paid its drivers "out of pocket" expenses amounting to eight hours pay. For Goodway, Christopher Hough argued that the company should not have been fined because it had made no financial gain and that "rest" had a peculiar meaning in road haulage.
But Judge Turner said "rest" means that the driver should not be at work or training for work. He concluded that the offences had been deliberately permitted and that the fines were not excessive.