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tachograph fines
• A Liverpool owner-driver and two friends who helped him out while his wife was ill were fined for tachograph offences by the city's stipendiary magistrates.
Edward Downing pleaded guilty to seven offences of falsifying tachograph records, six offences of causing drivers to falsify records, and six of using a vehicle when the tachograph was not used in accordance with the regulations. He was fined 1500 with £150 costs.
Hugh McGimpsey pleaded guilty to six offences of falsifying tachograph records. He was fined £100 with £75 costs. William Allen pleaded guilty to one offence of falsification, three offences of the incorrect use of the mode switch, three offences of driving for 4.5 hours without the required 45 minutes break, and one offence of the unauthorised withdrawal of a chart from the tachograph. He was fined .C100 with £75 costs.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, John was grateful to the other two men, as they had helped him out when his wife was ill.
He had told the others that if they were stuck they should use his name on the charts and they would not get caught.
McGimpsey said that he had not been paid and had just done it as a good deed.
Fining the three men, magistrate Stephen Ward told them that he did not understand why they had thought it necessary to break the rules. The fact that Downing had got domestic problems did not justify a wholesale disregard for the law.