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More Fielding drivers in dock
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More drivers working for RE Fielding have been to court on tacho and
hours charges. Mike Jewell reports.
ANOTHER 11 drivers for Cheshire haulier RF Fielding (Cheshire) appeared before District Judge Geoffrey Brailsford at Rochdale Magistrates Court last week, charged with tachograph offences.
Four drivers have already pleaded guilty to 49 tacho offences and face possible jail sentences (CM 7 October).
Prosecuting for VOSA, John Heaton said most of the offences occurred when drivers ran out of duty time and sought to hide the fact that they had continued working and taken insufficient daily rest.
He added that Kenneth Grimshaw, of Manchester, who had pleaded guilty to eight offences, had deliberately defaced his distance trace to hide an overlap resulting from winding back the clock. Committing Grimshaw to Bolton Crown Court for sentence. Brailsford said the offences had been committed in a period of just six weeks and there were aggravating feature& Philip Taylor, of Manchester, who had committed 14 offences within two months,was also sent to the crown court for sentence.
In both cases Brailsford decided that financial penalties were insufficient as these were offences of "considerable significance-.
The remaining drivers were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £3,010.
For the drivers, Andre Woolfall said the majority of the offences were not sophisticated. Work into and out of regional distribution centres was notoriously difficult for drivers and hauliers as the drivers had to "dance to the RDC's tune". Drivers had fallen into the habit of pulling the card out of the tachograph while queueing at RDCs. He added that the company had given its drivers little instruction and training about the hours and tachograph rules.