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The Monte and the M4 lorry drivers
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THE hours spent at the wheel by a lorry driver and a Monte Carlo Rally driver were compared at Helston-Kerrier Magistrates' Court last week when two caravan haulage drivers were charged with not taking proper rest and not keeping records, and their company with permitting the offences.
Prosecuting, Mr. C. W. L. Jervis said the company's articulated caravan haulage lorry was checked at the junction of the M4 by Ministry officials. Inspection of the drivers' log sheets showed they had not taken sufficient rest.
Mr. Shelton Allen, defending, submitted that the men and company were victims of involved legislation which even solicitors and the police themselves were hard put to understand.
"In the past few days Monte Carlo Rally drivers have been at the wheel day and night for two and half days without stopping for sleep. They are not breaking the law; yet lorry drivers who do not leave their vehicles for the prescribed time do break the law.
"These lorry drivers were shift-drivingone sleeping while the other drove. They had their rest, but the fact that this was in the lorry and not away from it means that they were breaking the law," said Mr. Allen.
Douglas Herbert Holt, BOugyhere Caravan Site, Mawgan, and Carlos Williams, Triniry Close, Car-nmenellis, were each fined £5. Their employer, Travellers Rest Caravans Ltd., Melrose, Helston, had to pay £.10 for permitting the offences, and a 5-guinea advocate's fee.