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Driver gets day in cells to 'pay or £1,250 fine
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A LITHUANIAN lorry driver was kept in the cells for the best part of a day at Barnsley Magistrates Court after he was unable to pay£1 ,250 in fines for using a vehicle in a dangerous condition and taking insufficient daily rest. Juozas Mocevicius admitted the offences through an interpreter.
David Friar, prosecuting, said motorway police had noticed the trailer of Mocevicius" artic listing to one side. It was immediately apparent that the wheel and brake assembly on that side were completely missing. When Mocevicius' tachograph chart was examined it was seen that he had stopped driving at 01.50 before commencing again at 08.40. instead of taking the required nine-hour rest, as he had to make a delivery by 11.00.
For Mocevicius, Ged Hale said he had not realised the wheel and brake assembly were missing. Police had said the wheel bearing had failed. Mocevicius accepted the trailer was dangerous and said it was being repaired.
He was fined 050 for using the trailer in a dangerous condition and £500 for taking insufficient rest.
After District Judge Gwyn Jones was told that Mocevicius had only 125 Euros on him and that there was no chance of him getting any money until he got to Belgium that weekend, he directed that Mocevicius should be kept in the cells until the court rose in lieu of payment of the fines.