VI holds a 40-tonner
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• Vehicle Inspectorate officials "confiscated" a 40-tonne Scania owned by a Dutch haulage firm after its British driver was found to have broken the hours rules.
Simon Phillips, prosecuting for the VI, told Atherstone and Coleshill magistrates last week that the truck, owned by HSF Logistics In Holland, was taken off the road for 24 hours after being checked on the AS at Borden, Warks in March.
Colin Counsel!, from Weston-super-Mare, was fined £750 with 170 costs after admitting two charges of failing to take the regulation rest period and one count of falling to produce tachograph sheets.
Phillips said the Scania, carrying meat, was travelling from Holland to Bilston in the West Midlands.
He added that the firm could not be prosecuted because it is based outside the UK.