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Woodside driver is fined E350

6th December 1990
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Keywords : Tachograph, Law / Crime

• Woodside Haulage driver Andrew Hannah, of Newton Stewart, Scotland has been fined £350 and ordered to pay 230 prosecution costs after pleading guilty to seven drivers' hours offences at Leyland magistrates.

He was originally accused of 10 offences.

The court heard that the offences were discovered when Hannah's Volvo artic was stopped by police and his tachograph charts analysed. The results showed he had driven for seven hours 52 minutes with a 45 minute break on one occasion and for 10 hours 24 minutes on another.

Defending, John Backhouse said that the latter offence happened when Hannah was travelling north on the Al. He had planned to stop at a transport cafe, but it had been turned into a Little Chef and he went to a service area on the MI for the night.

If Hannah had written an explanation on the back of the chart, he might not have been prosecuted for that offence, said Backhouse.

A prosecution against Hannah's employer was dropped.


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