Yellow box offence 12 months ago

paddedjohn

seen on another site that a truck driver has had money deducted from his wage for a fine dated last March.
The driver worked for the agency last March when the incident allegedly occurred but has had no contact with them or anyone else until this month when he worked a week and they deducted the fine from his wage.
Is there a time limit for such fines? Are the arency allowed to pay the fine and just take it out of his pay without allowing him the chance of appeal? If the ticket was redirected to him at the time he would have appealed it but has been denied the chance by the agency.
Any advice please that can be passed on.

Johno100

I'd have been tempted to post this in the Employment sub-forum. Deductions from wages is what we are talking about here.

nosferatu1001

Indeed, i they didnt have any agreement allowing them to do so, then its an illegal deduction.

Coupon-mad

paddedjohn wrote: »

seen on another site that a truck driver has had money deducted from his wage for a fine dated last March.
The driver worked for the agency last March when the incident allegedly occurred but has had no contact with them or anyone else until this month when he worked a week and they deducted the fine from his wage.

Is there a time limit for such fines? Are the arency allowed to pay the fine and just take it out of his pay without allowing him the chance of appeal? If the ticket was redirected to him at the time he would have appealed it but has been denied the chance by the agency.

Any advice please that can be passed on.

Post on pepipoo about it, if you think the actual PCN was issued a year late.

A YBJ offence is never the business of the driver, it goes to the registered keeper by post as a PCN that also serves as a Notice to Owner, and yes, most firms might pay them because there is no right of appeal for a driver that would not risk their own position, because the 'owner' stays liable throughout.

paddedjohn

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Post on pepipoo about it, if you think the actual PCN was issued a year late.

A YBJ offence is never the business of the driver, it goes to the registered keeper by post as a PCN that also serves as a Notice to Owner, and yes, most firms might pay them because there is no right of appeal for a driver that would not risk their own position, because the 'owner' stays liable throughout.

Thanks, as far as I know the PCN was issued at the correct time but instantly paid by the agency without any contact to the driver involved thus taking away any chance he may have had of appealing the fine. A year later and he has just done some more driving for the agency and they deducted the money from his wage (probably allowed in the small print when he signed up for them)

Coupon-mad

He never had a chance to appeal a YBJ penalty, it's their liability not his and it would be a rare company that 'lets' the driver appeal a moving traffic offence.