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Huge tacho breach fine
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• An overdrawn haulage firm in Alcester, Warwickshire has been fined a total £4,350 on 56 charges of permitting drivers to break tacho rules, endangering the safety of other road users.
The charges included driving without sufficient rest, failing to keep records and making false entries on tacho charts, said Helen Bradin, prosecuting for VISA.
Jon Lewis Transport admitted 34 charges of permitting drivers to drive without sufficient rest, and 13 counts of permitting drivers to fall to enter information on record sheets in front of the Stratford-Upon-Avon Magistrates.
The firm admitted a further nine charges of having defective speed limiters on its vehicles. Four drivers were also charged with a variety of tacho and hours offences: Joseph Williams was fined £150 with £.200 costs; Philip Davies was fined £1,250 with £200 costs; David Parkes was fined £450 with £200 costs; and Bernard Harbor was fined £700 with £200 costs.
Bradin said the offences came to light during a VOSA tachograph check. She added: "A lack of sufficient rest can cause accidents. The firm had not monitored the driving hours of its employees, and drivers told VOSA officials that the firm had not given them formal training about their driving hours."
David Tandy for the firm said that it had operated 14 vehicles for 13 years and had never been in trouble before. He said a new system of checking the tachographs was now in force to make sure there were no further offences. "The firm, however, is in a perilous situation," he said. "The last 12 months were hard and the firm is overdrawn by £130,000. But the owner Mr Lewis loves his job and is putting in more hours."