Boss fined £2,180 on tachos
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• Drivers hours and tachograph offences have cost a Lancashire haulier £2,180 in fines and costs.
David Hesketh, of Longridge, pleaded guilty before Preston Magistrates to two offences of permitting Gary Harvard to exceed the permitted driving hours and to take insufficient break; he was fined £500 per offence. Hesketh also pleaded guilty to four offences of using vehicles when the destination had not been entered on the centre field of the tachograph charts, and was fined £250 per offence with J.:180 costs.
The prosecution offered no evidence on 22 further allegations of permitting drivers to breach the hours rules and four of using vehicles when the tachograph was not properly used.
Richard Green, prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, said the offences were revealed by tachograph charts seized by traffic examiners. The four drivers concerned in the offences had been dealt with earlier by the magistrates and fined a total of 422,360.
For Hesketh, John 13ackhouse said he had had difficulty in educating Harvard. He had felt sorry for him because he was going thmugh a divorce, so he had treated him leniently though eventually he had to sack him.
The other offences were all committed away from base, said Backhouse. In one instance the driver concerned had started and finished in Liverpool and he had forgotten to enter the destination, On the other three occasions the driver concerned had been shunting at the docks and at a customer's premises at Purfleet. Nothing had been concealed, said Backhouse: it was perfectly obvious to anyone looking at the charts what had occurred.