Failing to use a tachograph and insert a chart have cost truck driver Simon Abbott £500. Abbott, from Grays in Essex, pleaded guilty before the Harlow magistrates and was fined £250 with £250 costs. Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for Vosa, told the court that a tachograph chart dated 31 May 2007 showed Abbott had finished work at 12:15am.
The following chart, dated 31 May, indicated he had started work at 2am. A delivery note for 30 May showed Abbott was due to arrive for a delivery at
1:15pm and had arrived at 1pm. It also showed he had left the site at 2:45pm - but there was no tachograph chart covering this period.
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