Fined for tacho sheet shortage
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• A shop fittings firm was fined 4150 by West Bromwich magistrates after one of its lorries was found to have insufficient tachograph record sheets.
Kenneth Taylor, who helps run Plaza Interior of Ipswich Road, Slough, Berkshire, was also ordered to pay 430 costs after admitting issuing a lorry driver with insufficient sheets.
Taylor apologised to the magistrates for the error and said his firm was offering to pay the fine of the driver who also appeared in court.
The driver, James McMillan of Hythe Road, Folkestone, admitted having insufficient charts, making a false entry on a tachograph sheet and exceeding 40mph in his lorry. He was fined a total of 4235 with 430 costs. He was also disqualified from driving for six months.
McMillan said: "I may well now lose my job." The magistrates said they had no option but to disqualify him under the "totting up" process—he had several previous convictions for motoring offences.