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A Wrexham ownerdriver, Michael Roberts, said he was going to go out of business after being ordered to pay £6,680 in fines and costs for tachograph offences.
Roberts pleaded guilty to nine offences of falsifying tachograph records when he appeared before the Wrexham magistrates. He was fined 1720 per offence with 2200 costs.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Albert Oldfield said that as part of a wider joint operation between vehicle and traffic examiners, traffic examiner Geoff Whitley visited Robert's premises to inspect his tachograph records. He sus pected that the records produced were false and took possession of them.
Further analysis appeared to show that the rest periods had been recorded when the vehicle was being driven off the road or was loading and unloading. Roberts later admitted that he tachograph fuse. had removed the Roberts told the court that he had corn mitted the offences due to pressure of business and pressure at home—he had been going through a divorce at the time.