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Foreign driver fined for tacho falsification
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A MOLDAVIAN lorry driver, who used a magnet in order to falsify digital tachograph records, has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £200 by Rochdale Magistrates after being kept in the cells overnight.
Ivan Kayryak had pleaded guilty to knowingly falsifying digitallyrecorded data.
The magistrates were told that a 40-tonne artic operated by Romania-based Avis Tran, and driven by Kayryak, was stopped in a VOSA check at Thornham Island at the junction of the A627M and the M62.
Detailed analysis of the vehicle's digital tachograph data revealed no driving being recorded at the time the vehicle entered the check site. Driving hours recorded before that point showed that Kayryak should have been observing a daily rest period.
An examination of the vehicle by VOSA examiners revealed a high-powered magnet attached to the sender unit at the gearbox.
Police officers were called and Kayryak was arrested on suspicion of falsifying digital data.
He was held in cells at Rochdale overnight.
Through an interpreter, Kayryak said he had done what he had to in order to find a secure parking place.
Magistrates fined him £100 and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £15.