Liverpool firm fined £2,500 in its absence after failing to produce tachograph charts
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FAILING TO PRODUCE tachograph records on demand has cost Liverpool-based Maguire Trading £2,648 in fines and costs.
The company failed to appear before the city's magistrates and it was convicted in its absence of failing to produce tachograph records when requested to do so at its premises.
Traffic examiner Colin Rowlands told the court that in October the company had been sent a letter requiring it to produce tachograph records and daily running sheets for the period January-September 2006. Director Robert Maguire had written in reply stating that the previous three months' charts were with its tachograph analyst consultants and that the charts prior to that had been sent to the Inland Revenue for audit.
Maguire had gone on to say that he hoped to have them available within the next two weeks. Various tachograph records had been produced on 26 October and 29 November. However, analysis of those records revealed that 3,269km covered by seven vehicles were unaccounted for.When interviewed Maguire had said that the charts that had been produced were the only ones that he could produce.
The magistrates fined the company £2,500 with £148 costs.