Owner Driver

Work diary quandary

OVER THE PAST decade as a trucking lawyer, I’ve worked with a lot of professional drivers. All of them have been charged with heavy vehicle offences, but most of them are not bad drivers. In fact, the majority are good people who want to do the right thing. Unfortunately, with such complex laws, it’s easy to get tripped up by an honest mistake.

One such driver came into

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