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False tacho appeal lost
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• A Cumbrian owner-driver who was jailed for four months for the falsification of tachograph charts has lost his appeal against the revocation of his LGV driving licence, and his disqualification from holding a licence until the beginning of next year.
William Ross, of Griffel View, Wigton, had appealed to the Wigton magistrates against the decision of North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Cattell. Ross had also appealed to the Transport Tribunal against the revocation of his 0-licence, but has since withdrawn that appeal.
For the DOT, John Heaton said the Deputy TC had revoked the licence and disqualified Ross in July. In reaching that decision, he had taken account of Ross's convictions. In September 1995 Stafford Crown Court had sentenced him to four months imprisonment for two convictions of fal
sifying tachograph charts in
October 1994. Four days later Penrith magistrates fined him for six drivers hours offences in March and April 1995.
Ross's 38-tonne livestock trans porter was found to be fitted with a device to short out the tachograph to conceal driving in breach of the drivers hours rules, said Heaton. The second set of offences were committed while Ross was awaiting criminal prosecution for the false records offences.
Ross said that his vehicle was now specified on his father's 0 licence and his father wanted to employ him to drive it. He had no other means of earning a living He agreed that when the false records offences were committed his vehicle had been brand new and he had admitted to the police that he had fitted a wire to the vehicle to short circuit the tachograph. He accepted that the vehicle had been doing a very high mileage at the time; around 2,000 miles a week.
For Ross, John Backhouse said that he was no longer running his own business. He would be under the scrutiny and control of his father's transport manager.