On the naughty step, tea and biscuits with the Traffic Commissioner

Fined for exceeding 90 hours of driving time in two weeks three times, but the article doesn’t say by how much the driver exceeded the 90 hours driving time.

The driver could deserve the fine or not but we won’t know because of the lazy reporting by the Express :frowning:

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Yep.
A lack of detail there. And the article talks a lot about UK Domestic regs which we know is not usually relevant.
A longish piece about what is probably an everyday occurrence.

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What is most interesting to me, and assuming the report is accurate…a very big assumption…
The article says
“The driver was arrested after the vehicle was pulled over by police on the M62 near Manchester after a tachograph showed they had driven in excess of 90 hours.”

Does that mean that the vehicle was pulled over after the tacho was known to show 90+hrs driving?
Or it was pulled over for some other reason, and the driver arrested after the tacho was then examined?

If the former, is this an early example of the new smart tacho being interrogated in a moving vehicle?
I understand such things are happening, but this is the first actual example I have heard of.

If it was PC Angus Nairn, he would have got to the bottom of this lazy reporting,he was an ex owner driver, a poacher turned gamekeeper to know every trick in the book.

It says as you pointed out that he had broken the 90 hour rule on three occasions. So 200 quid for each time. However each offence would of triggered three infringments for each time. So 600 quid for 9 infringements so 66 quid roughly for each infringment.

Seems like the max fine is 1500 for a max of 5 offences so yes he got off lightly

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Why three infringements ? :confused:

Reduced daily, reduced weekly rest or over daily driving limit as well as going over the fortnightly limit

Not necessarily mate ^^^^^; week one 4x 9 hour drives and 2x 10 hour drives gives you 56 hours driving. Week two (assuming a 5 day week) 3x9 hour drives plus 2x 10 hour drives gives you a fortnightly drive total of 103 hours. Perhaps he/she hadn’t exceeded 3x 15 working periods in either week. It’s unlikely, but entirely possible

You have other work and breaks to fit in as well but i take your point

Why has the newspaper mentioned GB domestic hours when the police photo depicts a foreign registered LGV?

Must be a new reporter and new sub-editor.

The story didn’t start with “Foreign juggernaut…” and end with “this is another Brexit benefit” and “leave the Euro Court of Human Rights now, so we can string the furriner up” :wink:

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