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Owner-drivers may be jailed for chart fiddling
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TWO OWNER-DRIVERS, guilty of numerous offences of tachograph fiddling, face possible prison sentences after a magistrate referred the case to the Crown Court for sentencing.
Stoke onTrent-based operators Phillip Hartless and Heath Jukes,a director of Heath JukesTransport,faced District Judge Clancy at Liverpool Magistrates Court. 'The judge decided that the number and sophistication of the offences of falsification of tachograph charts to which the pair admitted was too serious for him to deal with. The men were sent to the Crown Court for sentence after they had each pleaded guilty to 20 offences of falsification.
John Heaton, prosecuting for VOSA, said that on the tachograph charts the speed and distance traces appeared continuous and consistent, with no missing mileage on the face of the charts. However, other timed information, for instance fuelling records and gatehouse records, showed that the charts were false in that the vehicle was moving at a time and location when the chart suggested it was stationary.
The men had gained a commercial advantage, working excessive periods in a business where they stood to gain financially. They had made it clear through their solicitors that the offences had been committed by means of pulling the fuse, with an attempt to hide what they had done by the use of a sacrificial chart to hide the full scale deflections caused by the interruption to the electrical supply.
The aggravating features of the offences were their number, their sophistication and the substantial missing mileage.