Tacho offences
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A FELIXSTOWE haulage firm has been fined £280 and four of its drivers ordered to pay £1,000 in fines and costs for tachograph related offences.
David Betts Haulage pleaded guilty at Felixstowe Magistrates Court to seven charges of using a vehicle when the tachograph was not being operated by the driver.
Graham Consitt, prosecuting for the Department of Transport, said the drivers were given the wrong tachograph charts for the type of equipment they were using.
He said that some lorries are equipped with manual tachographs while others had automatic ones. The charts were not interchangeable. The defendant company's drivers had been using the wrong sort of chart and the tachograph markings did not correspond with the correct parts of the record sheet.
It was the responsibility of the haulage company to make sure correct cards were issued to employees.
Jonathan Rickman, for the company, said the company was "more than a shade unlucky" to find itself before the court. It had been sent the wrong tachograph charts by its regular supplier by mistake.