Fined for excessive hours
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• Two lorry drivers found to have driven excessive hours when stopped in a check in South Wales have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £850 by the Llanelli Magistrates.
Kenneth Ackroyd, of Hightie.ld Road, Keighley, was convicted in his absence of driving for more than 4.5 hours without the required 45-minute break, exceeding the daily driving limit and taking insufficient daily rest.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Bill Rees said that Ackroyd's 38-tonne artic had been stopped in a routine check on the A98 at Cross Hands. An examination of his tachograph charts revealed that he had driven for more than 10 hours, and that he had gone back on the road six hours before he should have done. The magistrates fined Ackroyd £600 and ordered him to pay £55 prosecution costs.
Alan Bland, of Gaimsford Crescent, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to exceeding the daily driving limit. Rees said Bland had been on the road for 11 hours when stopped in the same check.
The magistrates fined Bland £140 and ordered him to pay £55 costs.