False charts cost £1,699
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• Huddersfield haulier Geoffrey Brown Naylor and one of his drivers had to pay E1,699 in fines and costs after being convicted of falsifying tachograph charts by the town's magistrates.
Naylor, of Taylor Hall Road, Berry Brow, Huddersfield, was accused of two offences of falsification and driver Roger Waller, of Ashburton Road, Ickburgh, Thetford, of one offence.
Richard Wadkin, prosecuting for the DOT, said Brown's first offence involved a journey to Deeside when false mileage had been entered on the chart. The second offence occurred when a vehicle driven by Brown entered Bernard Matthews' premises in Norfolk at a time when the tachograph chart showed the vehicle to be stationary at another location.
Similarly, Waller's vehicle was seen leaving and then re-entering Matthews' premises when the chart showed it to be stationary elsewhere.
Naylor maintained that the tachographs must have been malfunctioning.
The magistrates fined Naylor 2450 with E.666 prosecution costs. Waller was fined £250 and ordered to pay E333 prosecution costs.