Six out of 11 allegations dropped
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• Offences involving two Special Types vehicles cost Carrington, Manchester-based J Wright (Heavy Haulage) £1,065 in fines and costs.
The company originally faced 11 alleged offences before Wigan magistrates: one for using a vehicle with a defective tachograph; two of using vehicles without an 0-licence and three of using untested vehicles. Also alleged were two offences of failing to display a test certificate, failing to display a plate on a trailer, one of failing to display a ministry. plate and one of failing to have a two yearly check on a tachograph.
Following discussions with the defence, the prosecution abandoned six of the allegations_ Jonathan Lawton, defending, said the defective tachograph charge arose because it was recording 201cm/h below the base line—a simple malfunction of the tachograph_ Two offences of unauthorised use arose because the vehicles were on the licence held by a related company and were being transferred.
The failure to have a two year tachograph check was an administrative error, said Lawton.
As far as the offence of using an untested vehicle was concerned, the vehicle had run out of test only a day or two beforehand.
The magistrates fined the company 1300 for each offence of unauthorised use, £160 for using a vehicle with a defective tachograph, £160 for using an untested vehicle, £120 for not having a two yearly tachograph check and £25 prosecution costs,