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No-licence directors fined
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• The unauthorised use of vehicles, drivers' hours and tachograph offences cost Stoke-on-Trent based Amber and the company's two directors 24,175 in fines and costs when they appeared before the Fenton Magistrates.
Director Peter Gordon admitted six offences of exceeding 41/2 hours driving without taking the required break, one offence of exceeding nine hours driving in a day, and eight offences of not using tachographs comedy. He was fined 2400 with 2100 costs. Director Patrick Mangam admitted six offences of exceeding 4% hours driving without the required breaks and three of failing to use tachographs correctly. He was fined 2325 with 2100 costs.
The company admitted permitting the offences by the directors and 19 offences of using vehicles without an operator's licence; it was fined 23,150 with 2200 costs.
Patrick McKnight, prosecuting for the West Midland Traffic Area, said an investigation had started after a 24-tonne
vehicle driven by Mangam had been stopped by a traffic examiner and found not to be displaying an 0-licence disc. It had turned out to be the tip of the iceberg, there being over 100 occasions when vehicles had been used without an 0licence in October and November 1987. The company had been unable to obtain an 0licence at the time, as nobody involved had been the holder of a Certificate of Professional Competence.
When interviewed, Mangam had said that they would apply
for a licence after he had E the CPC examination.
Tachograph charts had I obtained and analysed, anc offences before the court specimen charges only, sa McKnight. He was happy say that the company's oti drivers had been complyin with the hours limits and t their tachographs correctI3
Gordon said that they NN not cowboys. He and his nephew Mangam had estal fished the business in 198', had not fully understood ti graphs. They had now obt CPCs and the company ha been granted a licence. Tt offences had arisen out of ignorance when they had I started the business. He agreed with magistrate Re Beech, however, that the3 continued to operate know they were breaking the la% Imposing the fines, Bee. said the defendants had pc themselves outside the lay knew, and they knew, the were gaining an unfair adv tage over their competitor cutting corners in that wa3 The magistrates would no tolerate anyone working NI; out an operator's licence, ; the fact that the defendant had continued to operate c compounded the offences.