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News - Commercial Motor
January 24, 2012
A truck driver from Portugal has been sent to prison after he admitted forging his tachograph readings.
In a hearing at Carlisle Crown Court, Joaquim Lopes Mello, 33, a driver with Transportes Pepe El Correcaminos, based in Murcia, Spain, pleaded guilty to four charges of forgery in relation to the manipulation of his tachograph charts in October 2011.
He was sentenced to six months imprisonment on each charge, to run concurrently, and banned from driving in the UK for 12 months.
The court was told Mello was stopped by VOSA officers at Todhills on the M6 near Carlisle. His vehicle was seized and examined along with tachograph records and other documentation before he was arrested.
Mello has been on remand since the end of October and will serve the rest of his sentence before his release.
He is the second driver from the Spanish haulier to be investigated by VOSA and Cumbria police.
Last October, Carlisle Crown Court jailed Mohammed Issiali for six months on six charges of forgery relating to the manipulation of his tachograph charts in May and June 2011.
