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Defective limiter and false tacho cost UM
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Driving a vehicle when the speed limiter was not working and falsifying a tachograph record cost Northern Irish driver Robert Welch i€175 in fines and costs when he appeared before the Chester magistrates. Welch, of Culcavey, Hillsborough, admitted the offences.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, David James said that an artic belonging to J Murray &. Sons and driven by Welch was stopped in a check on the A5117 at Dunkirk,
Cheshire in February. When traffic examiner Peter Edwards inspected the tachograph records produced by Welch he could see that the speed limiter was not restricting the vehicle to the legal limit.
The examiner became suspicious about one of the charts when he saw that a break period had overtraced some of the driving period and the driver had failed to enter the finishing location.
It appeared that Welch had removed the chart from the tachograph at approximately
22:33hrs and had reinserted it at approximately 23:15hrs, winding the clock forward to indicate the break and then winding it back. When asked about that matter, Welch said he had nothing to say.
He agreed that the speed limiter had not been restricting the vehicle's speed but denied disabling it, said James. Asked whether he had reported the fact that the speed limiter was defective. Welch again said he had nothing to say.
The magistrates fined Welch 8700 with £175 costs.