Hectic life led to driver's carelessness
3rd June 1999, Page 21
3rd June 1999
Page 21
Page 21, 3rd June 1999
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A Dublin lorry driver spent the night in police cells in West Wales after police found problems with his tachograph records.
Llanelli magistrates were told that when Thomas Kearns, of Killinarden, Dublin, was stopped in a spot check while carrying furniture from Ireland police found that he was using dirty tachograph charts, that he had failed to enter the starting point on the centre field of the chart he was using that day. and that he had failed to operate the mode switch.
Kearns, who pleaded guilty, said that his hectic schedule had made him careless. He promised the court that he would be careful in future as he had no intention of going to prison for something so silly.
The magistrates fined Kearns a total of £160.