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Driver says he didn't know tacho tampering was wrong
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FAILING TO USE A tachograph and falsifying a tachograph record has resulted in Romford lorry driver David Sayers being ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £525. He claimed he did not know what he did was wrong.
Sayers,of ChadwellHeath, Romford, pleaded guilty before Harlow Magistrates to making a false record and three offences of failing to use record sheets. He was fined £150 for the former.L75 on each of the latter and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £150.
Prosecuting for Vosa, Anthony Ostrin said Sayers had been working for Dixons Haulage as a driver, and his tachograph charts had been produced by the company to traffic examiner Clare Hall. The charts showed that, on 14 November 2006,Sayers had deliberately falsified a chart to hide a distance totalling 187 kilometres and, on three further occasions in November 2006, had failed to record parts of his journey.
Sayers said he could not understand what he had done wrong. He accepted he had run out of time and had stopped at motorway services areas, but had failed to record that he had done so on his charts.