Haulier fined for tacho offence
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• A haulier has been fined £1,200 for not using tachograph sheets on two lorries after she claimed the vehicles had not been on the road.
Narinder Kaur, the owner of Jyote Haulage of Europa Avenue, Sandwell Valley, West Bromwich, was also ordered to pay £65 costs after being found guilty on two counts of using a tachograph without record sheets. Kaur did not attend the hearing at West Bromwich Magistrates' Court.
Karen Salisbury, prosecuting, said two lorries owned by Jyote Haulage were stopped within hours of each other on the A44 Stafford Road, at Wolverhampton, on 12 March and inspected by traffic examiner Malcolm Donalds.
He found the tachograph on each vehicle did not have record sheets. But when Kaur was approached she denied they had been on the road. 0 Brian Thomas and Elizabeth Fairbrother, proprietors of Birmingham Forwarding Agents, of Padgetts Lane, South Moons, Redd itch, Worcestershire, were each fined £150 after admitting using a lorry on March 21 without a two-year inspection of tachograph equipment.