Night out tacho fiddle costs drivers £3,000
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• Three drivers employed by Alan Morris (I kill,: Transport), of Deeside., who falsified their tachograph charts in order to claim night-out allowances, have been ordered to pity fines and costs totalling £3,000.
Appearing before Mold magistrates. David Oster. of Connahs Quay, pleaded guilty to four offences of falsifying tachograph charts and was fined a total of 1400. Mark Edgar, of Wrexham, pleaded guilty to 18 offences of falsification and was fined a total ( )1' E1,100. Terry Axon, of Farndon, pleaded guilty to 20 (rffences of falsification and was fined a total of £1,200.
Each of the three were ordered to pay .E100 costs.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Richard Green said that when one of the company's vehicles was checked at the Mersey Tunnel by a traffic examiner it became obvious that the driver had entered the wrong start and finish places on the tachograph charts produced. As a result, the charts for all the company's drivers were seized. All three men had been doing exactly the same thing. This allowed them to claim a night-out allowance when in fact they had spent the night at home.
The actual hours shown on the charts were accurate, said Green: it was the starting and finishing places that were false.
Morris's managing director. Brian Lee, said that though upset at what had occurred, he felt that it was an isolated incident. He added that all three men were excellent employees; so much so that Axon had since been promoted to operations manager,