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• Lancing lorry driver Stephen Gascoigne had to pay fines and costs totalling £1,100, after he admitted falsifying tachograph charts, before Lewes magistrates.
Gascoigne, of Valley Road, Sompting, Lancing, pleaded guilty to eight offences of making false entries, one offence of taking insufficient daily rest and one offence of failing to use a tachograph.
Prosecuting for the Department of Transport, Stephen Wedd said that following silent checks carried out at Newhaven
Docks, traffic examiners had called for tachograph records from Gascoigne's employer, Newhaven haulier James Boniface. When Gascoigne's charts were analysed, it could be seen that he had opened the head of the tachograph between three and eight times a day. He had either been "pulling the fuse" or running without a chart in his tacho.
Gascoigne said that he had been put under pressure by his
employers to do more hours. He had been told that if he could not get the job done, there were plenty of people who could.
He was fined £1,000 with £.100 costs.