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Absent driver pays for hours offences

2nd July 1998, Page 23
2nd July 1998
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• A Port Talbot driver was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £200 after being convicted by Llanelli magistrates of a series of drivers' hours offences in his absence.

Leighton Ifold, of Taibach, Port Talbot, was accused of one offence of failing to take sufficient weekly rest, two offences of taking insufficient daily rest, one offence of exceeding the daily driving limit and one offence of exceeding 4.5 hours without a 45minute break.

Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate,

Rhian Prichard said Driver failed to take required daily rest.

that the offences came to light when traffic examiners carried out a routine check on the tachograph records of Ifold's employer, Swansea based Anglefold, for August and September 1997.

The magistrates fined Ifold 30 per offence with £50 costs.

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