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Direct hours charges
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• Bury, Lancashire-based Direct Parcels has appeared before the town's magistrates on 127 drivers' hours and tachograph charges, with 13 of its drivers.
The company is accused of permitting drivers to exceed 41/2 hours driving without taking the required amount of break, permitting them to exceed daily driving limits, permitting them to exceed 90 hours' driving in a fortnight, and of failing to produce tachograph charts.
Three of the drivers have been dealt with by the magistrates. Wayne Mullins of Roch
dale was given a conditional discharge for 12 months for three offences of exceeding 41/2 hours driving and one offence of exceeding 10 hours driving in a day.
Mark Goulding of Bury was fined £10 for two 41/2-hour offences and two daily driving offences. Paul Barnes of Bury was given a 12-month conditional discharge for 10 41/2 hour offences and one daily driving offence.
The case followed a routine check on the company's tachograph charts for October and November of last year. In Barnes's case, he had driven for as much as eight hours five minutes without taking the required 45 minutes break. When interviewed, Barnes had said that it was practically impossible to do the amount of work and the number of drops within the hours limits.