/900 speed limiter fine slashed
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Underwood, Notts-based Bailey Taylor Haulage has successfully appealed against a fine of £900 imposed by the Liverpool magistrates for using a vehicle with a defective speed limiter.
Reducing the fine to 5.250 at Liverpool
Crown Court, Judge Mark Hedley directed that the company's appeal costs should be paid out of public funds.
Sarah Williams, prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, said that when one of the company's artics was stopped in a check at Maghull in March the tachograph charts showed that it had been breaking the 90km/h limit. The speed limiter was subsequently found to be disconnected.
When director Peter Dykes was interviewed, he had said that the speed limiter cable had seized making the vehicle undrivable. They had had to bypass the cable at the fuel pump to get the truck going_ He admitted knowing about the defect for about two weeks.