⚠️Driver of a 3,500 kgs car transporter towing a 3,500 kgs trailer, loaded with cars, was stopped at Hotel Badbury.
✅Tachograph fitted - Yes
❌Using tachograph - No
⚠️Vehicle prohibited, fixed penalties issued
#drivershours
ALT Close-up of a Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency marked vehicle with reflective yellow and black checkered pattern on the side.
ALT Close-up of a Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency Fixed Penalty Notice document on a desk.
ALT Tachograph report showing vehicle daily activities with odometer readings, driving time, average speed, and speed chart for April 16, 2026.
It’s Drivers’ Hours Focus Week! 🚛 Fatigue is a silent risk, responsible for up to a quarter of serious road incidents. This week we’re reinforcing the basics that keep everyone safe: rest, compliance & wellbeing. #DriversHoursgov.uk/government/news/drive…
If you decided not to follow #DriversHours rules, putting other road users in danger from tired driving 😴 , we will take action✅
We can also immobilise the vehicle ⛓️
Drivers Hours Advice ⏰ ⬇️
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Immobilisation Advice⛓️⬇️
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ALT Immobilised vehicle
ALT Picture of fixed penalty and prohibition paper
Have a rest this Christmas🎄
➡️HGV driver failed to take a 4️⃣5️⃣minute break when nearing the 4.5hour limit
➡️Continued to drive for another 3 hours❌
➡️Fixed penalty✅
Brush up on the rules and know your numbers👇
ow.ly/Nn6650Vb6KQ#DriversHours#KnowTheRules#HaveABreak
ALT Tachograph data showing a driver failed to take a 45 minute break after driving for 4 hours, and then recommencing another 3 hours of driving.
#Coldra - Drivers Hours Offender💥
Driver found to be using a driver card in someone else's name to get past on 20 hours driving when should be resting!
✅Vehicle immobilised
✅Driver made to take his rest
✅Fined £980
✅Roads made safer
#DVSA#KeepingRoadsSafe#DriversHours
ALT Driver found to be using 2 driver cards to conceal his driving when he should have been resting
ALT Heavy goods vehicle with a driver found to be using 2 cards to conceal driver hours offences
Spotted #M25👇
1️⃣6️⃣ serious driving infringements
❌Daily rest too short
❌Daily & weekly drive times too long
✅Delayed
✅Disrupted
✅Roads kept safer
Another example of why #DVSA#Enforcement do what we do…helping to keep the roads that little bit safer💪
#drivershours
ALT Serious infringements of drivers hours rules and regulations by this heavy goods vehicle driver
ALT Prohibited heavy goods vehicle for serious drivers hours infringements
#DVSA mobile checks proving fruitful👇
£1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣in fixed penalties for numerous #DriversHours offences from 2x drivers
1x driver parked up for a 4️⃣5️⃣hour regular weekly rest he'd failed to complete
❌Rules & Sanctions are in place for #RoadSafety
❌Avoid fines
❌Avoid delays
ALT Drivers hours offences
ALT Drivers hours offences
ALT Immobilised heavy goods vehicle. Driver needed to complete a 45 hour regular weekly rest.
#Partnership working with @NSRAPT👇
£2️⃣4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣in fines for #DriversHours offences - daily rest, weekly rest, & exceeding drive times in a fortnight
6️⃣Prohibitions - Indicators, warning systems, parking brake performance & fluid leak
5️⃣Overweight LGVs
#DVSA#Disruption#RoadSafe
ALT Police Commercial Vehicle Unit van and DVSA roadside van
Have a break...Have a rest✅
➡️HGV driver failed to take a 4️⃣5️⃣minute break when nearing the 4.5hour limit
➡️Continued to drive for another 3 hours❌
➡️Fixed penalty✅
Brush up on the rules and know your numbers👇
ow.ly/Nn6650Vb6KQ#DriversHours#KnowTheRules#HaveABreak
ALT Tachograph data showing a driver failed to take a 45 minute break after driving for 4 hours, and then recommencing another 3 hours of driving.
A #HGV driver has pleaded guilty to circumventing #DriversHours rules, by using 2 digital driver tachograph cards,on 23 occasions⏰
They were sentenced at #Cardiff Crown Court-
Suspended 12-month prison sentence,250 hrs of unpaid work,15 rehabilitation days, £2️⃣3️⃣6️⃣5️⃣ costs🛑
The driver of this #HGV had not taken sufficient daily rest 😴
They were prohibited from driving for 9 hours, the vehicle was immobilised & a fixed penalty notice was issued 🚫
You can read about #DriversHours rules, below 🔽
gov.uk/drivers-hours
#HGV encountered by the team at Todhills #Carlisle 🚔
The vehicle passed us with a ramp just about to fall off the back of the trailer 😳
Inspected & prohibited for the insecure load ⛓️
There was also multiple #DriversHours issues discovered ⏰
Driver dealt with ✍️