Limerick truck driver narrowly avoids prison for ‘undermining regulations’
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A COUNTY Limerick truck driver was saved from being sent to prison for allowing a third party use his driver card because he looks after his elderly mother.
Donal Noonan, of Old Street, Galbally appeared before Judge Alan Mitchell in Kilmallock Court. He pleaded guilty to a number of summonses in relation to allowing his driver card be used on a number of dates.
Aidan Tierney, an inspector with the Road Safety Authority (RSA), said he stopped a heavy goods vehicle in Loughrea, County Galway on October 1, 2018.
Mr Tierney said he carried out an inspection of the tachograph. He said it was Mr Noonan’s driver’s card in the tachograph but Mr Noonan wasn’t driving the vehicle.