FOUR DRIVERS FINED £1,900
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FOUR LORRY DRIVERS charged with hours and records offences were fined a total of £1,900 by Keighley Magistrates last week, for what the Bench described as a "deliberate attempt to flout the law."
Thirty similar charges against the drivers' employer, Nelsons Transport Ltd, Keighley, were adjourned.
Prosecuting for the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Mr Jeremy Schumann, said it was a case the Licensing Authority regarded as very serious. The offences had come to light following comparisons of the drivers' records with the records kept by the gate-men at the Basildon factory of the Ford Motor Co. The times shown on the drivers' records were completely different.
Only one of the four drivers, Mr George Coppin of Wignall Street, Beechcliffe, Keighley, appeared. Pleading guilty to two offences he said that he was no longer employed by Nelsons Transport.
The Magistrates found the charges proved against all four drivers and imposed fines of £100 for each offence.
Mr Coppin was ordered to pay £200; Mr Charles Starkey of East Morton, Keighley (12 offences) £1,200; Mr Robert Clay of Allerton, Bradford (three offences) £300; and Mr George Lonsdale of Keighley (two offences) £200. The four men were ordered to share £60 costs.