Charter: jobs harder
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OBS ALLOCATED by Tharter Roadways became larder to accomplish within he hours limits, a lorry !river told the fake tacho;raph records trial at Preston 2rown C:ourt last week.
William Graham and Gorton (;reenwood, directors of :hatter Roadways; Gordon v1cLeod, thriller general manger of Charter; and traffic lerks Philip Lonsdale and )avid Lindley deny conspirng together and with drivers o make false entries in tacho;Tapia charts (CM February 15).
Anthony Westwood, of 2oppull. Lancashire, said that Lonsdale and McLeod told hint he would earn a lot of money if he did as he was told. Lonsdale had shown him how to remove the fuse from a tachograph.
He had worked 16 to 20 hours a day, six days a week, sometimes running into seven.
He falsified the charts to allow himself time to complete the jobs and every time he complained he seemed to be given awkward jobs.
When he complained, he was told that he was not planning his day properly but said that it was impossible to have done some of the jobs within the hours limits.
He had spent as much as 30
hours on duty, and the Company must have known the hours he was working.
He accepted he had been interviewed by the company about falsifying charts, but said that interview was prompted by suspicions that he was stealing derv.
He told the company that he was falsifying charts because he had to work excess hours and left the company a few days later.
Ile was owed about S.1,500 and he initially kept his vehicle until it was sorted out. He later returned it, but his money was never sorted out.
The trial continues.