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given a 12month conditional discharge after Leigh, Lanes magistrates heard that they had been keeping records of the driver's work but had been using the wrong system.
Wigan-based McCann Waste Management and driver Peter Manning pleaded guilty to using a vehicle when a tachograph was not being used.
Defending, Andrew Woolfall said that the T.5tanner had been carrying a mini-skip laden with waste.
The company had mistakenly believed that it was exempt from the tachograph regulations for vehicles carrying waste, and came under the domestic drivers' hours rules. Manning had therefore been using a domestic hours record book.
This was a simple case of confusion, said Woolfail. The law was changed some two years ago by a European Court decision which defined "waste—but that decision was still not widely known in the industry.
The magistrates ordered the company to pay £.35 costs.