HGV Driver sent to Prison

Andrew Clorley 48 of A Clorley Transport admitted breaking tachgraph regulations 11 times.

Clorley was jailed for 30 weeks for using a fresh sheet in the name of an ex-employee Eric Groves, who at the time of the offences was not even in the country.

Clorley regularly drove his 44-tonne artic from Kronospan down the A470 to south Wales.

Following on from a VOSA investigation it was discovered that on seven separate occasions he had driven more than 13 hours a day when the limit was nine.

Judge Rhys Rowlands told the hearing the fact Clorley was driving along a difficult road, over long distances he said “You were behind the wheel of a very large vehicle, driving long distances around Wales, when it would been unsafe for you to have been driving”.