Haulier caught lying about waiting times
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• by Pete Swingler A haulier who illegally claimed money from a quarry operator for bogus waiting time has been fined nearly 16,000 on 25 charges.
Shivrag Singh Gill had claimed 118 an hour from TiIcon, which had recently been taken over by Tarmac. for time spent waiting to load at quarries in Bickenhall. Solihull and Hadley Heath. On one occasion he falsely claimed that he had waited at a quarry for five hours 30 minutes.
His deception was discovered when Vehicle Inspectorate officials checked his vehicles' tachograph charts and found that he had spent most of the claimed waiting time on the move.
Gill, who runs Bilston-based Gill Haulage, was fined a total of £5,900 with 2550 costs after admitting two charges of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception; nine of making a false entry on a tachograph sheet; eight of failing to produce tachograph records sheets on time; five offences of using an unspecified place as an operating centre; and one of failing to take the required rest after six daily driving periods.
He had also kept his trucks at Warwickshire-based Mancetter Quarry which was not his authorised base.
Michael McKnight, defending, said Gill had a contract with Tilcon and although his trucks had been involved in the offences he had not always been the driver.