Check reveals long list of offences
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• Birkenhead haulier Kilco Dairyfarm Chemicals has been fined a total 23,900 after admitting a catalogue of tachograph and drivers' hours offences before Wallasey magistrates.
The company pleaded guilty to one offence of using a vehicle where a driver failed to use a tachograph correctly and 29 offences of permitting two drivers to drive excessive hours and take insufficient rest and breaks.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, John Heaton said the offences the company had _pleaded guilty to were specimens of the large number of offences with which it had been charged. They had come to light out of a routine check of three months of the company's tachograph records. The court heard driver Barry Court had a long catalogue of false tachograph records and if any worthwhile checks had been carried out the falsifications should have been spotted.
Defending, Kate Heap said there was no question of collusion by the company in the drivers' offences, and tachograph charts were now being sent out to an independent professional analyst.