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Community orders for record offences
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TWO STOKE-ON-TRENT owner drivers who falsified their tachograph records while working for hauliers F Swain and Sons of Poynton, Cheshire, were given community punishment orders totalling 320 hours and ordered to pay costs totalling £2,250 when they appeared at Liverpool Crown Court.
Heath Jukes, sole director of Heath Jukes Transport, and Philip Hartless had been committed for sentence by the Liverpool Magistrates after they had each pleaded guilty to 20 offences of tacho chart falsification.
Work under a community punishment order cannot be regarded as "rest" under the EC drivers' hours rules. Judge Brian Holloway warned both men that if they breached the orders they would be sent to prison.
Prosecuting,TobySasse told the court that the offences had all been committed during a period of 10 months between November 2002 and September 2003. They were revealed through checks against gate records, he added.
Checks had been made on both men since without any irregularities being found. That, said Sasse, demonstrated that they had learned their lesson.
Jukes was given a community punishment order of 180 hours and ordered to pay £1.500 costs. Hartless was given a community punishment order of 140 hours with £750 costs.