Jailed for no surety
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• A French lorry driver has been jailed for 45 days because his employers' agents could not guarantee that fines and costs of ,C2,075 would be paid, Dominique Poulain, of 17 Rue Haendel, Beauvais, pleaded guilty to one offence of exceeding the daily driving limit and one of taking insufficient daily rest, when he appeared at the court.
Traffic examiner Dominic Green said that a vehicle belonging to Jean Jacques
Magnier, of Grand Villies, was checked on the A45 whilst carrying Peugeot car parts to Gefco UK's factory in Coventry.
An examination of the tachograph charts produced by Poulain showed he had driven for 13 hours 50 minutes in a 24hour period and that the longest period of uninterrupted rest was the one and a half hour ferry crossing.
Magistrates fined Poulin £1,000 per offence and ordered him to pay £75 costs