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Chart fiddling at supermarket costs f21:1

2nd February 2006
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A DRIVER with a perishable load removed his tachograph chart so he could complete a supermarket delivery but this offence cost him a total of £200 in fines and costs.

Shaun Stone of Ilminster. Essex pleaded guilty to knowingly making a false tachograph record and exceeding the daily driving limit when he appeared before the Harlow magistrates. Stone was ordered

to pay £100 in fines and costs for the false recur, given a conditional discharge for exceeding hist Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for VOSA. the court that Stone had been asked to produ■ tacho charts and paperwork at a roadside chec produced his Tesco supply-and-delivery re which showed that he had removed the chart fro tachograph after arriving at Tesco. Stone had unloaded the vehicle and left Tesco, none of v was recorded. Ana lysis of his records showed h, driven for 10hr 50min when the limit for daily di is 10 hours.

Appearing for Stone,Jeremy Fear said the bo4 for the delivery had been put back. causing the to exceed his hours.

-Commercial pressure had been brought this driver who was carrying a perishable load situation was therefore not of his making." he ad

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