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• Gordon Millership, transport manager of Rowley Regis-based Millership Transport, has denied causing a driver to falsify tachograph charts. Appearing before the Warley Magistrates, Millership pleaded not guilty to four offences of causing Maurice Whitehouse to make an entry on a record sheet which he knew to be false, and to one offence of causing Whitehouse to drive when not qualified.
But he amitted a second offence of causing Whitehouse to drive when not qualified and an offence of causing another drivcer, Frederick Slater, to drive when not qualified.
For the prosecution, Kathryn Young said that Millership effectively ran the business, though the licence was held by his wife and son.
The prosecution case was that on four occasions Millership had told Whitehouse to use his name on the tachograph charts.
The magistrates adjourned the case for trial.
Paul Hadley, of Falcon way, Dudley, a driver employed by the firm, admitted two offences of making a false tachograph record and two offences of driving an LGV unaccompanied with only a provisional licence.
Defending, Geoffrey Davies said that all Hadley had done was to move an empty vehicle between a customer's depots. There was no question of exceeding the hours limits. He had put his uncle's name, Brian Hadley, on the charts, thinking that he could not put his own name on the charts. Hadley was fined £500 with £30 costs.