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Driver exceeded hours and fiddled tachos
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A DRIVER WHO falsified tachograph records and in one instance drove nearly twice the permitted hours has been ordered to pay £825 in fines and costs by Harlow magistrates.
Ian Stevens of Luton pleaded guilty to seven offences of falsification, being fined a total of £475 with £350 prosecution costs.
Prosecuting for Vosa, Jacqueline Devonish said Stevens was employed by Danjak as an HGV driver.
An examination of Stevens' tachograph records by traffic examiner Martin Faulkner had identified that the charts had been removed from the equipment during the driving time and not at the end of the daily driving time as required by law. Stevens had on at least one occasion driven for up to 181/2 hours when daily driving should not exceed nine or 10 hours a day. The charts had also revealed missing mileage of between 4km and 25km a day.
The offences had all occurred during a 12-day period last July.
In mitigation, Stevens told the court that he had been stopped by Vosa many times and nothing had been found wrong. His boss had -read him the riot act" regarding the current charge.
Fining Stevens, the magistrates said the falsification of tachograph charts was a serious offence to commit in a 44-tonne lorry. They could not tell how long Stevens had been driving on any day.