Ace Link fined on records
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• Drivers hours and record offences cost Ace Link Limited and a director of the company a total of £445 in fines and costs when they appeared before the Bury, Lancashire magistrates.
The company admitted three offences of failing to produce tachograph records and were fined £120 with £175 costs. Director Malcolm Price was fined 2240 after admitting three offences of failing to keep a record and five offences of exceeding eight hours driving in a day.
The prosecution said the company had been unable to produce charts for one vehicle for three days. On three occasions there was a difference between the odometer readings and the V trace on Price's charts and the excess driving varied between 30 and 50 minutes.
Defending, John Backhouse said the three missing charts had been lost. In two cases Price had forgotten to put a chart in immediately he started driving and on the third occasion he had taken a chart out after being held up on the motorway.
The excess hours related to a journey to Scotland which could normally be done within the limits. Under the new hours rules the driving would not have been excessive.