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Peter Gray, of Grays Transport in Andover, has been found
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guilty of permitting drivers to drive excessive hours and take insufficient rest, and of failing to produce tachograph charts.
Stipendary Magistrate Terence English last week fined Gray 22,500 and ' £3,000 towards costs.
Gray had denied 45 offences of permitting and 31 of failing to produce charts, when he appeared at Andover Court in March. (CM March 23-29). He was cleared of six charges of failing to produce charts.
The court was told during a police raid last May, 5,500 of the firm's charts had been siezed. That led to the discovery of a large number of offences and the prosecution of 26 drivers. (CM 19-25 January). The prosecution maintained that Gray had taken no effective action to prevent offences being repeated.
Defending, John Backhouse said Gray had operated a system for warning drivers who had infringed the regulations. It could not be said that Gray had been reckless.
Backhouse argued that Gray could not be guilty of failing to produce something he never had.