Team let down by director and driver
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DRIVERS' HOURS and tachograph offences have cost Liverpool-based Team Event a total of £3,050 in fines and costs.
When the company appeared before the Hertford magistrates it pleaded guilty to using a vehicle when the driver had failed to enter details on his tacho chart and using a vehicle when the driver failed to use tacho charts. It was fined £1,000 with £1,000 costs.
Director John Parkinson pleaded guilty to failing to use a tachograph chart; he was fined £250 with £200 costs.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for Vosa, said that a 38-tonne artic driven by Pawal Andrzej Klaczynski had been stopped in a roadside check. Examination of his tachograph charts revealed that on one chart he had failed to enter full details on his record sheet and not indicated his finish point. The second chart revealed that Klaczynski had failed to take the required break after 41/2 hours' driving: he had only done so after 4hr 50 min.
When interviewed, Parkinson had accepted that a chart in the name of Klaczynski had been used by him and he had not created his own chart.
Klaczynski did not appear at court — the two charges against him were found proved in his absence. He was fined £2.50 for each offence with £100 costs.