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Driver fined for fiddling tacho
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Prl A driver who falsified entries on his tachograph charts because he had not taken enough rest and overloaded his truck has been ordered to pay 1350 in fines and costs by
Leyland magistrates.
John Charnley, who worked for Cumbrian firm S&E Jackson, pleaded guilty to two offences of falsifying tachograph charts and to using an artic when the permitted train weight was exceeded.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle inspectorate, John Heaton said that in March Charnley's artic was stopped in a check at
Cuerden, Preston. The vehicle was loaded with frozen food being brought from Belgium for delivery in Sedbergh, North Yorkshire. When the vehicle was weighed the train weight was found to be 41,530kgan excess of 3,530kg, or R.29%.
When Charnley produced his tacho
graph records they showed that there were no mechanical recordings on any of the records, only manual entries. He blamed this on a defective tachol claiming that neither mode nor distance were being recorded, The manual entries on the reverse of the records for 20 and 21 March had no notes to indicate getting, on or off a ferry, which would have involved interruptions to what was recorded as a minimum daily rest, though there were ferry tickets among the documentation produced, Charnley had falsified the manual entries on those two charts to disguise the fact that he had failed to take the legal minimum daily rest. When that was put to him, he replied: "That's correct. I can't say anything else."
Heaton emphasised that the journey to France and Belgium to collect the load had been omitted from the chart for 20 March. He pointed out the road safety problems that arose from a greatly overloaded vehicle being driven by a someone who had not taken the proper daily rest.
The magistrates fined Charnley £100 on each of the false record offences and £50 for the overloading offence. They also ordered him to pay £100 towards the costs of the prosecution.