Stobart driver told to use false name
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• .A driver employed by Eddie Stobart has told Knutsford Crown Court that he was instructed to put a chart in his tachograph with another name on it, when he ran out of hours away from the depot.
The claim was made at the trial of Reginald Motley, one of the management team at Stobart's depot in Woolfox, Leics. Motley has pleaded not guilty to nine counts of aiding and abetting drivers to falsify tachograph charts and to one count of falsifying a chart.
Stobart driver Graham Busby
told the court that if he failed to return to the depot within the hours limits, he would be told to put in another chart and bring the vehicle back. When he initially refused. Busby said he was told that if he would not falsify charts, Motley would find someone who would. Busby said he had worked a 17.5hr day on four or five occasions.
In evidence Motley said he knew or assumed that the tachograph records were false but had signed the timesheets under orders so the drivers would be paid.