"You did [falsify the tachograph record] by deliberately interfering with the tachograph in order to enable you drive outside the legal hours and, also, it would appear, at a speed which is illegal because you removed -- not that you are charged with that, but it seems to be part of what you did -- you removed the governor of the speed of the lorry. The reason ... why those are serious offences is, as you well know as a heavy goods vehicle driver, that if you breached the permitted hours regulations, you are liable to be tired and to make mistakes and that can be fatal. That is why it is so important that lorry drivers comply with the, law not only as to the hours, but also as to keeping accurate records of the driving times that they have been in the lorry."
"You have heard counsel for the prosecution refer to a Court of Appeal decision in which the Court of Appeal said that, normally, prison sentences are appropriate in these circumstances in order to deter other people in a similar position who might be tempted to do what you did. Since that decision was given in 1999 or thereabouts, there have been other Court of Appeal decisions, not requiring, but advising judges to consider very carefully before imposing periods of immediate imprisonment because of the overcrowded nature of our jails, that only in those cases where it is really necessary to send someone to immediate prison should that be done."