Scam costs 13,000
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• An owner-driver
who gained up to 45 minutes a day by falsifying his tachograph record was fined .23,000 by Wrexham magistrates.
Cyril Bailey, of Burton Rossett, near Wrexham, admitted 21 offences after ajoint investigation by traffic and vehicle examiners uncovered his scam.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Albert Oldfield said Bailey had been transporting materials from quarries in North Wales to construction sites in north-west England. When his tachograph records were analysed it became clear that he had started driving in the morning without putting a chart in his tachograph, and drove about 25km between his base and the quarry.
Bailey then entered a false starting place on the centre field of his chart before inserting it into the tachograph. The motive had been to gain 30-45 minutes at the end of each day For Bailey, it was said his action had been neither malicious nor intentional but a mistake.
He was fined nom on the first offence with no separate penalty for the remainder. He was ordered to pay £.75 costs.