Driver sacked for extra 35km
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• A driver who falsified a tacho graph record because he was worried about the security of his load of whisky has been fined £30.
Appearing before the Macclesfield Magistrates, Peter Slater, of Brookdale Avenue, Audenshaw, Manchester pleaded guilty to one offence of falsification and to taking insufficient daily rest.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, John Heaton said that Slater's 38-tonne at-tic, belonging to Lex Transfleet, was stopped in a check at Rostherne, Cheshire. It was carrying spirits for Bell Lines.
Slater produced his tachograph records and a traffic examiner noticed that some
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35km were unrecorded and that the speed trace ended at about 60mph, indicating that the chart had been removed from the tachograph while the vehicle was still moving Slater admitted that he had "pulled the chart" because his spreadover was up. He explained that he was carrying Scotch and when he got to a service area he felt unsafe. He did not want to park up with a load worth £500,000, so he carried on another 35km to the Sandbach Services.
He had been driving for 27 years and had lost his job as a result of this matter.
The magistrates fined Slater £30 for the falsification with no separate penalty for the daily rest offence.