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False records and little rest cost driver £52 FALSIFY ING
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TACHOG RA PH records and taking insufficient daily rest cost driver John O'Loughlin £520 in fines and costs.
O'Loughlin, of Colinvale, Dumurray, Belfast, pleaded guilty to two false records offences and two daily rest offences when he appeared before the Chester magistrates.
Prosecuting for VOSA. David James said an artic driven by O'Loughlin. who worked for Thomas Fitzsimmons, was checked at Sandbach services on the M6. An examination of six charts produced by O'Loughlin disclosed the rest offences: the traffic examiner suspected the validity of a couple of the charts.
On further examination it was discovered that the vehicle had been driven without a chart in the tachograph. There were distance trace mismatches. The maximum rest available to O'Loughlin on the two occasions in question had been eight hours 10 minutes and six hours five minutes out of the 11 hours required by law, with 26km and 65km being unrecorded.
O'Loughlin told the court that he had been ui a lot of stress due to problems at home. He had gained financially from the offences. The distal unrecorded were less than had been claimed: tachograph had later been found to be recort abnormally. Fining O'Loughlin £400 with £120 c■ the magistrates said that the tachograph was inten to prevent drivers driving excess hours.