30-hour drive
27th October 1984, Page 17
27th October 1984
Page 17
Page 17, 27th October 1984
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A WEST GERMAN driver was fined about £2,000 by a court in the Ruhr this month after police discovered he had been working for 50 hours and had spent the previous 30 hours non-stop at the wheel.
The driver's marathon shift was discovered when he fell asleep at the wheel of his 32.5tonne vehicle and overturned on a grass verge — causing no injuries — at Burgsteinfurt, near Dusseldorf.
Examination of the tachograph showed he had made six round trips of 200 miles collecting potatoes and delivering them to a store-chain in the Ruhr.
His employers were also fined around £2,000.