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Driver fined £800 for falsifying records A DRIVER has been
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ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs after he pleaded guilty to offences including fiddling his tachograph and taking insufficient rest.
When the alternator of his truck stopped working Alistair Maplethorpe alleged that he was told by his employers to ignore his rest period by pulling the fuse from his tachograph.
Maplethorpe, of Wyburton, Lincolnshire pleaded guilty before the Harlow Magistrates to knowingly making a false record, taking insufficient rest in a 24-hour period and failing to use a tachograph record sheet. He was fined a total of £600 and ordered to pay £200 prosecution costs.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for VOSA, said that an articulated outfit driven by Maplethorpe had been stopped in a roadside check. When he produced his tachograph records, one chart showed a full-scale deflection and no further recordings. The charts also showed insufficient rest with no mileage recorded for a journey between Cambridge and Harlow.
Maplethorpe accepted that he had pulled the fuse to lose the trace and that the intention was to get to the workshop to have repairs done to his truck that day.
For Maplethorpe, Richard Tinkler told the magistratesthatthealternatoronhisvehiclehadceased operation.When he rang his employer to ask him what he should do he was told to go immediately to the workshop. When he explained that would eat into his rest period,he alleged that his employer told him to pull the fuse from the tachograph so that there would be no record of him not taking the appropriate rest.