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9th September 2004
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AN AGENCY driver who was unable to produce tachograph charts at the roadside has cost a Liverpool company £400 in fines and costs.

The Desk Centre pleaded guilty to using a vehicle when the driver failed to produce charts when it appeared before the Wirral Magistrates.

The driver, James Waring, admitted failing to produce charts and failing to use the mode switch. He was fined £100 with £50 costs, Prosecuting for VOSA,John Heaton said that when Waring's vehicle was stopped at Milton Keynes on 30 May he produced tachograph charts for 2829 and 30 May but was unable to produce charts for the rest of the week and for the last day of the previous week in which he had worked.

For Waring, David Kirwin said that he had been told to drive a different vehicle at very short notice. The previous week's chart was locked away in his previous vehicle which was in a locked compound and he had had no opportunity to go back and get it. The missing charts had been faxed across and revealed no offences.

The mode switch offence arose because Waring had no experience of using the automatic tachograph fitted to the vehicle he was driving.The logistics manager had just told him to put a chart in and the tachograph would work automatically, he said.

David Caldow, MD of the Desk Centre, said that there had been two false dawns in recruiting a logistics manager before they got the right man. The manager previously in charge of transport was no longer there.

The magistrates fined the company 1300 and ordered it to pay £100 costs.

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Organisations: AN AGENCY, Desk Centre
Locations: Liverpool

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