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19 drivers fined for tacho offences

22nd November 1986
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• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences cost Northern Ireland operators Montgomery Transport, its associated company Gaskells Transport (GB) and 19 of their drivers a total of 22,945 in fines and costs when they appeared before the Leyland magistrates.

Montgomery Transport admitted 40 offences of permitting drivers to exceed the drivers' hours limits and to take insufficient rest. Gasket's Transport admitted 19 similar offences.

The drivers admitted a total of 67 offences including four of falsifying tachograph records. A further 56 charges against both the drivers and the two companies were withdrawn.

Jeffrey Brailsford, prosecuting, said drivers had exceeded the daily driving limit by up to two hours 22 minutes. When the general manager of the two companies was interviewed he had said they had checked the charts for mileages and speeds but not for small amounts of excessive hours; he was aware that the Stranraer run was tightly scheduled.

Defending, Bryan Green said roadworks on the A75 with four bypasses under construction had led to delays and that was why there were so many offences on the Stranraer run; the drivers being tied to ferry times.

Montgomery had used a "jump jockey" system at one time whereby the "jump jockey" drove the vehicles to and from the docks from a point close to the end of their journey.

The drivers, however, complained after a "jump jockey" turned a vehicle over and the company withdrew the facility. That turned out to have been a mistake. Montgomery Transport was fined £1,000 with 2500 costs, Gaskells Transport £475 with £240 costs and the drivers between 210 and 2100.


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