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Brewery pulled for limiters
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Carlsberg Tetley Brewery has been fined £4,500 after its drivers used nine trucks with defective speed limiters. The company admitted 19 charges at Solihull Magistrates Court of having defective speed limiters on their trucks.
The firm was also ordered to pay £85 costs after one of the magistrates said that the court had been lenient, and could have imposed tines totalling £6,700.
The brewery was not represented in court, and magistrates were told that there had been no explanation from the brewery, although it had admitted the offences by letter. Green told the magistrates that the offences came to light following VI spot checks on two Carlsberg trucks at Erdington, Birmingham.
'The speed limiters were not working in either truck and the brewery was asked to produce tachograph charts Involving seven other lorries. They were also found to have defective speed limiters.
The brewery simply did not have an adequate checking system for their lorries and were, in effect, permitting drivers to drive vehicles without speed controls. This put the drivers and other read users at risk,' said Green.