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Fine for out-of-hours driver who wound his clock forward by 11 hours
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THE FALSIFICATION of a tachograph record and exceeding the daily driving limit cost Dungannon truck driver Stephen Curry £470 in fines and costs when he appeared before the Leyland magistrates. Curry admitted the offences.
John Heaton, prosecuting for VOSA, said that when Curry's artic had been checked at Cuerden the chart taken from the tachograph bore the following day's date. It was clear that Curry had wound the clock on 11 hours and put a new chart in the tachograph and had continued to drive when his driving hours were up.
For Curry, Michael Cunningham said he had only been working for Dungannon hauliers Ewing Brothers for three weeks and his previous experience was limited. If Curry had not decided to wind on the clock after speaking to another driver at Sandbach Services he would only have committed the hours' offence and would have had 10 hours' rest on the ferry from Fleetwood.
He was only 30 minutes over his hours when stopped, Cunningham added. and would have been in Fleetwood in another 30 minutes. It had been an important load for his employer and he had been open with the examiner about what he had done.
A more experienced driver would have disposed of the false record but he left it in.
Curry had been given a final warning by his employer and he had learnt his lesson.
Cunningham pointed out to magistrates that Curry had flown over to attend court, losing two days' work at a cost of £300.
The magistrates fined Curry £350 with £120 costs.