Coal convoy firm gets discharge
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A SOUTII YOl).KSlllIth hatifier has been Cound guilty of permitting seven I its drivers to take insufficient rest and to exceed duty time during the miners' strike, hot the company and drivers have been given 12-month conditional discharges.
The company, G. C. and I). Gill (Transport) Ltd, and the drivers appeared before 1)oncaster niagistrates (CM, November 3) I).
David Gill, a director, said it had been a very difficult period. The company had a system of making mainly visual random checks on tachograph charts, and when discrepencies were spotted the company was given what it regarded as reasonable explanations by the drivers_ In most cases, the police instructed drivers what to do. They were being held up in convoys.
In reply to Michael Broome, prosecuting for the North-Eastern 'Iraffic Area, Gill did not recall being told by a traffic examiner in July P/84 that the company's drivers were not taking sufficient rest breaks.
The drivers. Paul Chapman of Hiorne; George Cox of Rawmarsli; Edward Wright of Skellow; Edward Baker of Arksey: Stephen Shuffiehottom of Woodlands; Graham Bull of Town Moor and Bernard Moore of Candy were
each ordered to pay towards the cost of the prosecution and the company was ordered to pay ti _1.51).