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Hours offences cost driver
DRIVERS' HOURS offences have cost a North Wales lorry driver £446.37 in fines and .;osts. Richard Jones of Leeswood, Mold, Dleaded guilty by post to exceeding 10 hours' Jriving and taking insufficient daily rest breaks Defore the Isle of Anglesey magistrates.
The court was told that a 40-tonne artic Jriven by Jones was stopped in a check last July pri the A55 at Dalar Hir, Anglesey.
An examination of his tacho charts revealed hat Jones had failed to take the required mount of daily rest on three consecutive Jays — the rest taken being seven hours 50 ninutes, seven hours 15 minutes and five hours 10 minutes respectively.
As a result, his aggregated driving time between daily rest periods was 29 hours 13 minutes. Jones confirmed he was aware of the required rest periods. He was fined a total of £265 and ordered to pay £166.37 prosecution costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
Driver fined for Lack of rest
TAKING INSUFFICIENT rest breaks after 4.5 hours' driving have cost a Powys lorry driver £525 in fines and costs.
Gerald Rogers, of Lyndon, Arddleen, Llanymynech, had pleaded guilty to four such offences before the Welshpool magistrates.
The court was told that a vehicle driven by Rogers, and carrying confidential waste from Pontypridd to Welshpool, was stopped in a check on the A483 at Welshpool in December.
An examination of the tachograph records produced by Rogers showed that on 29 October he had driven for seven hours 14 minutes, with a 19-minute break; on 18 November for five hours 38 minutes with a 23-minute break; on 20 November for seven hours 27 minutes with an 18-minute break; and on 2 December for six hours 30 minutes with a 20-minute break.
The magistrates lined Rogers a total of £300 and ordered him to pay £225 prosecution costs.
No action taken by TC
NO ACHON WAS taken against the licences held by the associated Shifnal, Shropshire-based Paul Hillman and 7 Valley Transport (LLC) after they gave Nick Jones, the West Midlands Traffic Commissioner, two undertakings in regards to drivers' hours and tachographs.
Hillman and the company appeared before the TC at a disciplinary inquiry in Birmingham.
They undertook that all tacho records would be independently analysed, and monthly reports would be prepared, acted upon and retained for at least two years.
Second, that a training programme provided by an independent trade association and relating to drivers would be implemented, and fully completed by 31 December 2009.
Written details of the sessions and those that attend to be submitted to thell.affic Area Office within 10 days of the course.
Thereafter, they would ensure all existing and new drivers would receive annual training, and records of all training sessions and attendees would be kept for at least two years.