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Interfering with his speed limiter and tachograph has cost a driver employed by Essex-based
Express International UK
21,775 in fines and costs.
David Todd, of Parkeston, Harwich, pleaded guilty before the Chester magistrates to 16 offences of using a vehicle when the speed limiter was inoperative and to nine offences of falsifying tachograph records.
As a result of information received traffic examiner Geoffrey Whitley had carried out an investigation into the companyy.
An examination of Todd's tachograph charts showed that on journeys between Essex and Holyhead the tachograph had been interrupted for part of the journey on a stretch of road between Tongue and Chester. The charts also showed that the speed limiter had been disconnected on various occasions.
Oldfield said Todd had admitted that not all the journeys had been recorded. Asked how he had interfered with the tachograph, Todd had said he had used a paper clip in the socket or the front of the
tachograph. He had been t how to do this by an Irish drh
Todd had said that sometimes left the depot but still needed to get to I ferry on time. He said that I speed limiter had been int fered with using a wire and had done it so that he co get to Holyhead faster.
"These types of offen( are treated very seriously the Vehicle Inspectorate," s Olcifield. "This is a deliberi falsification of tachogra records."