Hours cost Bulldog £12,645
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• Permitting drivers hours offences, and failing to produce tachograph charts, has cost Andover-based Bulldog International Transport Express and two of its directors £12,645 in fines and costs.
The company, managing director John Ward and director Les Emery, each pleaded guilty to 119 offences before Andover magistrates. They were each fined £4,165 plus £50 prosecution costs.
Prosecuting, Maureen Truss said that in November 1990 the police had gone into the company's premises, expecting to obtain about 5,000 tachograph charts used on 21 vehicles. Only 40 charts could be produced and it was eventually admitted that charts had been disposed of. The company was later able to produce some more charts and the police found a further 1,000. The permitting charges before the court were specimen offences.
Graham Dickinson, defending, said it was a family business and the drivers had been with the company many years. In those circumstances it had been difficult to discipline drivers and stop them when they wanted to get home quickly.