Haulier 'falsified records for police'
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Edward Ball. who traded as Scott Trans International, of Britignorth, Shropshire, failed to appear before West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry.
In June he was given a conditional discharge for two years and ordered to pay 21,000 costs after pleading guilty to 17 offences of falsifying tachograph records and 44 offences of using a tachograph record as a false instrument.
Traffic examiner Patricia Earn said Ball's tacho charts for the first six months of 1999 had been completed in hi; name and that of his six Graham. Ball had said he wa: running a two-man operation He had told her he was giv• ing the police information whili travelling abroad. Fie said or occasion he had been operatim on police instructions.
Graham Ball said he hal never worked for his father oi driven the vehicle, and cook not understand why his narre was being used.
Earn said the police hai confirmed Ball gave then information, but deniN instructing him to use his sorn name or to falsify tachos.
'Mr Ball was unhappy thi police did not support him ii the false tachograph allege. 'Lions." said Earp.
The TC said he would be considering Ball's fitness to hok an HGV driving licence.