European Court of Justice: ECJ makes ruling on penalties for HGV drivers who don’t provide tachograph record sheets

If a heavy goods vehicle, coach or bus is stopped by traffic inspectors on the roadside and the driver is not able to produce tachograph records for several of the last 29 days do they thus commit an offence for each day a record is missing, or is the failure a single offence with one penalty? In a recent case, the ECJ found that such an event amounted to a single offence, but that the gravity of offence varied according to the number of missing records …

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