Off-road tacho offence
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• A tipper driver, who admitted that he stopped his tachograph functioning during quarry work, has been fined £240 for falsifying a tachograph chart.
Reginald McCoy, of Smalldale Cottages. Peak Dale, pleaded guilty to the offence before Buxton magistrates.
Joan Bermingham, prosecuting, said police had stopped McCoy's vehicle in February in a routine check. Discrepancies were apparent when his tachograph chart was examined and compared with the weighbridge documents issued when the vehicle was loaded.
When the police officer put it to McCoy that the chart showed a break when he left the Derbyshire quarry, and asked whether he had "pulled a fuse", McCoy had said that he had because he was in the quarry, not on the road.
The magistrates fined McCoy £240 and £25 prosecution costs.