Hungarian driver jailed for tacho fraud
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A TRUCK DRIVER who travelled 1,300 miles from Hungary to north Wales without taking a proper break has been sent to prison.
Hungarian Zoltan Kelences, 32, was stopped by the north Wales CV unit – a joint police and VOSA operation – in a routine check on the A55 near Bangor last month.
Following a police investigation, Kelences appeared at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and failing to ensure that proper tachograph records were being kept.
He was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for each offence, and disqualiied from driving for 12 months. Magistrates also ordered his artic and semi-trailer to be forfeited. VOSA area manager Dave Collings says: “From the moment he left the depot in Hungary, the driver has tried to deceive the authorities with false documents, a magnet device to disrupt his tachograph, and fake tachograph records.
“He placed other road users across the route at risk, and by the time he reached north Wales he was on the last leg of his journey when he would have been at his most tired.”