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• 'Staffordshirebased haulier Robert Sellars and seven of his drivers have been ordered to pay £2,015 in fines and costs for falsifying tacho charts and breaking drivers' hours rules.
The drivers admitted a series of offences before Derby magistrates. Sellars. of Sellars Transport, Ilam, admitted permitting them to exceed 41/2 hours driving and to take insufficient dailyand weekly rest.
company profits and this was an incentive to drive longer, said Gill.
But lan Rothera, for Sellars, said the drivers were always delayed loading at Sheerness steel works for as long as eight hours.
For security reasons they had to wait outside the steel works overnight, and that small piece of driving — about 200m which caused them to break their rest period, had not been recorded.
Sellars had not caused drivers to falsify charts, said Rothera. He had not been to the steel works and did not realise that his employees had to park outside.