Driver had used an assumed name • An unlicensed driver
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who drove a lorry under an assumed name to get the work has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £150 by Manchester City magistrates. Barry Lane admitted five offences of driving an LGV when not qualified and five offences of making false entries on tachograph charts.
Prosecuting for the DOT, John Heaton said Lane had been putting a false name on his tacho charts to hide the fact that he was not licensed to drive LGVs.
He had been driving a tipper belonging to J O'Shea & Sons when a check revealed he did not hold an LGV licence. The company said it knew the driver as Martin Furey and 30 tachograph charts were produced in that name. Lane had given his employer a P45 in the name of Lane, explaining he had changed his name by deed poll. Lane holds a PCV driving licence and told his employer he had regularly driven a coach to Spain, implying that if he was safe enough to drive passengers that far he could drive an HGV.
The magistrates fined Lane £24 on each of the chart offences and gave him a conditional discharge on each of the LGV licence offences. They endorsed his ordinary driving licence with three penalty points and ordered him to pay 130 costs.