£2,100 for hours and load offence!
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• Several overloading offences and a failure to produce tacho records has cost Wetherhy-based AB Couriers 1.:2,100 in fines and costs.
The firm's partners, Ian Slorach and Ann Baker, each admitted exceeding the permitted gross weight of three of their vehicles and the permitted second axle weight of one vehicle, and an offence of failing to produce a tacho record, when they appeared before the town's magistrates. They were fined £950 with £100 costs each.
The three drivers concerned, Ricky Cullen, Mark Wolsey, and Richard Jones, were tined £650 with £250 costs. A fourth driver, John Simpson, was given an absolute discharge for failing to use a tachograph chart and was ordered to pay .£55 costs.
Defending, Gary Hodgson said the firm carried only carpets and it was difficult to judge the weight of these. The firm was not given weights by the customer. The amount of carpet carried on each vehi had since been reduced and firm was now check-weigh its vehicles at the Gilderso
dynamic weighbridge— nearest available site in the ea hours of the morning.
The firm had moved into operation of 7.5-tonners with realising it needed an 0-licet said Hodgson. It was subsequt ly granted a licence after be prosecuted for unauthorised and a series of drivers' ho offences. Its reaction had bi positive, as was shown by the I that no hours offences had b revealed when 1.500 tacho ch2 were checked by VI examiners.
The partners had to ph guilty to failing to produce a d after Simpson had failed to pt chart in his tachograph, follow the High Court's ruling in Murfitt Transport case that operator was guilty of failing produce a chart whatever the son for the failure—even if chart never existed.