Two directors of Landmark Haulage Ltd have been disqualified.

Two directors of Landmark Haulage Ltd, a haulage company in Northern Ireland, have been disqualified from acting as company directors for 11 years after devices for interfering with tachographs were found in 12 of their trucks.

More than 40,000 kilometres of driving had not been properly accounted for between October 2009 and November 2009.  Magistrates fined the firm £500 on each of 12 counts of producing, supplying and/or installing a device designed to interfere with the proper operation of tachograph recording equipment. The company was also fined a total of £2,700 for 16 other offences.  Eight drivers had previously been to court and fined a total of £2,900 for tachograph and drivers’ hours offences.

Superintendant Muir Clark said the operator and its employees had risked the lives of other road users. He hoped the “fines and disqualifications will serve as a strong warning to others”.