C Licensee Fined For Hours Offences
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IDEAL CASEMENTS (READING). I LTD.. of Shepherds House Lane. Earley. were fined a total of £200 with £10 10s, costs by Reading County magistrates last Friday for 25 offences under the Road Traffic Act.
Nine of the firm's drivers were fined a total of £12 10s, on a further 25 summonses.
Guilty pleas on behalf of the company and employees were entered by Mr. E. Hatch.
The drivers were charged with failing to keep records of work, driving without proper rest periods, and driving longer than the permitted period. Ideal Casements were alleged to have permitted the offences, which came to light when a traffic examiner inspected the records. Ideal Casements had two previous convictions for offences relating to records of work and hours of driving.
On behalf of the defendants, Mr. Hatch said the firm had 44 lorries, four vans and 43 drivers. Most of them were " not particularly literate or very clever chaps and did not find it easy to fill in forms.
Since the firm's last offence in 1960 a new transport manager had been appointed, and he introduced a simpler type of form. The records had, on the whole, been kept quite straight, but he left in April and his successor did not arrive until May, It was during -that period that the offences occurred.