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• ERTION by managing director of Seamans Transport Ltd, Eric Seaman that he had not driven a vehicle on the United sections of a round trip to Milan led to the company being of a charge of unauthorised use before Felixstowe ates last week.
ever, fines and costs £235 were imposed on
• s, Norfolk-based corner it pleaded guilty to the trip without an interjourney permit and to rges of having an imcalibrated tachograph vehicle. Mr Seaman also ,d guilty to failing to 3a record book.
icuting for the Eastern .ing Authority, John said the charges related And trip to Milan in June ly last year. The journey at the Diss base and at Lynn, the vehicle con
cerned (which was not specified on the company's licence) picked up a trailer. From there it was shipped by via Felixstowe to Milan.
On its return, the same unit left Felixstowe with a load for Stockport and Manchester. An interview with a traffic examiner and an invoice for the total journey pointed to the vehicle being driven throughout by Mr Seaman.
Mr Seaman, however, said he had employed sub-contractors for both UK parts of the journey and he had only driven inside the docks and on the Continent.