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Heavy fine for excessive hours
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A NORTHERN IRISH driver who falsified a tachograph record to hide the fact he had taken insufficient weekly rest has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £600.
William Strain, of Annalong, Co Down, pleaded guilty to the offences before the Leyland magistrates.
Prosecuting for VOSA. John Heaton said the offences came to light when a vehicle belonging to Angus Cochrane Transport and driven by Strain was stopped in a roadside check.
Strain had misdated a chart to conceal the fact that he had not had a weekly rest. It was also clear that he had taken less than a full daily rest in the Netherlands the previous day, and had only had 7.5 hours rest before starting to drive on the day that he was stopped. A 45-hour prohibition was imposed for the weekly rest he had not taken.
Heaton pointed out that it was only because Strain was caught while still driving with his current weekly records in the cab that the offences had been detected.
Other documentation in the cab enabled the traffic examiner to piece together what Strain had been doing — but for that documentation the offences might later have been very hard to detect.
For Strain. Ian Whalley said that the weekly rest and the false chart were linked, making it in reality only one mischief.