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Tacho fiddling cost driver £1,850 THE FALSIFICATION of tachograph records
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has cost Gillingham lorry driver Leslie Hollingsworth £1,850 in fines and costs after he pleaded guilty to four of of falsification.
Prosecuting for Vosa before the City of London magistrates Anthony Ostrin said that traffic examiner Philip Williams had analysed 73 of Hollingsworth's tacho charts.
With this level of offending the driver was perhaps On 55 occasions the distance lucky not to have been sent to the Crown Court for recorded showed the vehicle to sentence. have travelled considerably less than the distance indicated by the odometer readings that the driver had written on the records.
The specimen charges before the court were for unrecorded distances of 45km, 98km, 58km and 68km. When interviewed Hollingsworth accepted that the records were false. saying he had put the charts into the instrument when he started his duty in the morning but had failed to close the tachograph until he had got "somewhere over the river".
Hollingsworth told the court that he started work at 6am but did not get paid until 7am so that was the time he put the chart into the tachograph.
Hollingsworth was fined £400 for each offence with £250 prosecution costs