Manager cleared on tacho charge
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• Gordon Millership, transport manager of Rowley Regis-based Millership Transport, was cleared of causing a driver to falsify tachograph charts when he appeared before Warley magistrates.
Millership had pleaded not guilty to four offences of causing driver Maurice Whitehouse to make an entry on a record sheet which he knew to be false.
He admitted two offences of causing drivers to drive when not qualified. He was fined £250 and ordered to pay £50 prosecution costs.
Prosecuting, Kathryn Young said it was conceded that the four charts concerned were false in that Whitehouse had used Millership's name on the charts. However, Whitehouse was now saying that he had done so under the direct instructions of someone else and not Millership. Consequently the prosecution did not propose to proceed any further with those charges.
The partners in the firm, Christopher and Mary Millership, each admitted 11 offences of permitting unqualified drivers to drive. Christopher Millership also admitted one offence of failing to use a tachograph and one of failing to display an 0-licence identity disc. They were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £2,650.