Warned over tacho charts
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• Porthlevenbased Christopher Miners has been warned about permitting drivers' hours offences and failing to produce tachograph charts by Western Licensing Authority Major-General John Carpenter.
Miners said that he had given adequate instructions to drivers engaged on a contract transporting potatoes from Midhurst to Corby. The vehicles had been double-manned and there was no reason why the regulations should have been infringed. The drivers had just not complied with his instructions, Miners said.
He could not explain the absence of a week's tachograph records, but said that they could have been left in a vehicle which was off the road for several months after being involved in an accident.
Carpenter ordered a full check of Miners' vehicles and tachograph records. He said that it appeared Miners' drivers had either not understood the advice they were given or had deliberately disobeyed it.