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• Drivers hours and tachograph
offences cost Pm-fieet-based B J Myers (Haulage) and one of the company's drivers almost £2,000 in fines and costs when they appeared before Chippenham magistrates.
The company and driver Derek Pooley each admitted three offences of using a vehicle when the tachograph was not functioning correctly. Pooley also admitted six daily driving and daily rest offences Defending, Jonathan Lawton said that the tachograph offences resulted from a break in the distance stylus. Every other part of the tachograph was working properly. The company had been hoping to obtain a replacement part, rather than to have to replace the whole head. FIowever, that proved impossible and, after the vehicle was stopped by the police, the tachograph head was replaced.
Pooley had constantly reported the defect but had been bound by the company's decision. Nobody had tried to conceal anything The company was fined £750 with £80 prosecution costs. Pooley was fined £1,120 for the hours offences, with no separate penalty for the tachograph matters. He was ordered to pay £30 costs.