Law up against the wall
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Nagle-eyed reader might have spotted what seemed to be a blatant piece of driver's hours lawbreaking in our Law on the Wall chart, enclosed in last week's issue. The poster, on drivers' record-keeping, showed as an example an actual t, tacho chart, belonging to CM's vehicles editor John Kendall.
On close examination, the thick line showing the day's first driving period revealed that Kendall had actually been behind the wheel for four hours and 40 minutes — ten minutes longer than the law permits, Or is it? True, all drivers carrying goods must adhere to hours law at all times — and had Kendall been driving commercially he would indeed have been guilty. Fortunately the chart in question was completed during a Commercial Motor roadtest, when he was driving on trade plates.