Cash-in-transit Company fined £600 for tachograph offences
Posted by AndrewT on 18th Oct 2013
Following an investigation by DVA Enforcement Officers into the operation of 19 vehicles owned by Brinks Ireland Ltd, the company was fined £600 on 15 October 2013 for failing to produce tachograph re
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Smart tachograph specification informally agreed
Posted by AndrewT on 17th May 2013
Improving road safety and ensuring fair competition in road transport in the EU.
The Specification for a new generation of digital tachograph for trucks and buses was agreed informally by the Irish p
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£1,500 fine for tachograph and drivers' hours offences
Posted by AndrewT on 26th Mar 2013
A haulage company was fined a total of £1,500 and ordered to pay court courts at North Antrim Magistrates’ Court on Fri 1st March.
Patrick Bradley Limited was convicted on 15 charges relating to tac
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Convictions for drivers’ hours and tachograph offences fall
Posted by AndrewT on 25th Jan 2013
According to the latest figures from VOSA the number of convictions for drivers’ hours and tachograph offences has almost halved since 2009.
However, breaches of drivers’ hours regularly tops the li
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Suspended custodial sentence for tachograph cheat
Posted by AndrewT on 19th Dec 2012
On Monday 17th December 2012, Richard Samuel Dewart, 44, owner of Dewart Transport, Waringstown, Northern Ireland was convicted of forgery and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for 3 year
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Progress in Europe on the Smart Tachograph
Posted by AndrewT on 31st Oct 2012
Euro Ministers reached agreement on 29 October for new regulations on the tachograph used in road transport across the EU. The objective of the new draft legislation is to make fraud more difficult an
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Changes to Digital Tachographs from 1 October 2012
Posted by AndrewT on 18th Sep 2012
The EU Commission introduced a number of changes to digital tachographs. These design changes are being implemented in two phases known as second generation and third generation digital tachographs.
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