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Tougher penalties for hours offences
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THE GOVERNM L NT PLANS to get tough on drivers who tamper with tachographs and on operators who collude with drivers to falsify records as part of a number of proposed legislative changes to the drivers' hours rules The Department for Transport. which will have to make minor amendments to Section 99 of the Transport Act 1968 to reflect the introduction of digital tachographs, is taking the opportunity to make other changes.
These include: • Increasing the maximum fine for withholding tachograph records or obstructing an officer from a maximum 11.000 to £5,000. This would include cases of deliberate suppression and destruction of records. • Tougher penalties for falsification of tachograph records where operators connive with drivers. The government wants to supplement the offence of "causing" falsification with an offence of -deliberately permitting" records to be falsified.This would attract a maximum level 15,000 fine but would stop short of a custodial sentence.
• With the advent of digital tachographs, the DIT also wants to make it a specific offence to supply devices designed to enable the "falsification, suppression, manipulation or destruction" of tachograph data, or to provide confidential information to unauthorised people which would help them make such devices