Hours cost UFO £4,450
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• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences have cost the Dewsbury-based Universal Freight Organisation and 12 of its drivers £4,450 in fines and costs.
The drivers admitted a series of offences of taking insufficient daily and weekly rest, exceeding 41 hours driving without the required break, and failing to keep records. They were fined between £50 and £150 and were each ordered to pay £25 prosecution costs.
The company denied 10 offences of permitting drivers to take insufficient rest.
Prosecuting for the Department of Transport, Stewart Layle said that 17 of the company's drivers, including a number now before the court, had been convicted of committing similar offences in 1989 (CM 7-13 Sept 1989). It was clear that effective action had not been taken to prevent such offences recurring.
The magistrates found the company guilty, fining it a total of £1,700 and ordering it to pay £1,250 prosecution costs.
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