2,800 fines for hours breaches
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")rivers' hours and io.,Traph offences, including falsification of tachograph rts, cost an Essex haulier eight drivers £2,809 in s and costs when they eared before the Clacton zistrates.
(lartin Pinfold, prosecuting, la police investigation of It Haulage of Frating ted after one driver, Alan er of Tollesbury, was found lave tampered with his iograph.
'he eight drivers had all n on the road for longer a allowed by law, and en had falsified their lograph charts.
Ider admitted 14 offences flaking false tachograph ords and was fined a total 630.
lryan Hyam of Witham iitted four similar offences was fined £180; Raymond ris of Colchester admitted such offences and was fined 0; Alan Mason of Clacton and Stephen Connor of Ingatestone each admitted three offences of falsification and were each fined £135.
Christopher Hadgraft of Tollesbury admitted eight offences of false records and was fined £360: David Mackie of Colchester admitted four such offences and was fined £180. Lawrence Seaborn of Colchester admitted eight charges of exceeding the permitted hours limits and was fined £240.
The company pleaded guilty to permitting Seaborn's offences and was fined a total of £400. The company and each of the drivers were ordered to pay £11 towards the costs of the prosecution.