m.a.n rules:
i wonder how many driver’s from my era, (late 70’s onward) would of ended up in clink if their little ‘fiddle’ was discovered…
Thing is in those days it was the norm…, different standards.
When I think of the things I used to do as an owner driver, by today’s standards they would have hoyed the key away.
At that time on different occasions over a period of about 10 years…(not at same time ) I was in court for falsifying a tax disc, running (well ) overweight, falsifying records, running without a tacho in, running with a tacho with a different name on it, being silent checked, and insufficient weekly rest…and even after all that I was never jailed., but given a manageable fine each time, I don’t think they ever asked for my O licence tbh.
I remember getting pulled by VOSA at ny local station a few years after when I became an employed driver,.the guy looked at me, saw ny name,.and said…
‘‘Ah you were the guy who told us you had a fire when we came by appointment to view your tacho cards for the year, we did notice the ‘‘fire damage’’ had been done by a blow torch on the wall, and not a real fire,.but we could not prove it’’…
At least we had a laugh about it anyway.
I wasnt the fine upstanding law abiding citizen I am today in those days …give me a break I was a young lad in his 20s ffs.
As I said different times, different standards.
Hey maybe I’d just be coming out just now and would qualify for the scheme.
Ironically a large number of prisoners from open prisons are employed in various retail outlets. Even Mrs Canoe had a job in the local Iceland shop when she was in askham grange prison
uncle used to fake his tax disc from scratch ,colouring by watercolour paints etc ! Also i remember folk used to sometimes steal a disc from a motorbike and then alter the details. in my local Asda the scales dont work right at the self service you can scan 1 item but put 3 on the scales
Thing is in those days it was the norm…, different standards. quote rr…
happy day’s though rob, looking back i probably could have done a few years if i was proven to be a naughty boy … and at one point it was close (nothing distasteful) …
as to hand written recipts … 40 embassy and whatever was edible in those day’s…
At the self service Costa machines allegedly you can add an espresso in to a large cup but only pay for a medium sized cup and tip it to the latte, so far the police have not kicked in the door.
Henry Stephens:
At the self service Costa machines allegedly you can add an espresso in to a large cup but only pay for a medium sized cup and tip it to the latte, so far the police have not kicked in the door.
Can you still do that? It was a machine cleaner at S.Mimms who showed me
paul_c2:
I was once in Morrisons and I just took a 30p plastic bag, but when it came to the end of using the self-serve till I pressed 0 bags. Cuff me now.
Pfftt. Amateur.
My favourite trick is to switch the reduced sticker off a loaf of bread onto a fillet steak. Yum.
) I was in court for falsifying a tax disc, running (well ) overweight, falsifying records, running without a tacho in, running with a tacho with a different name on it, being silent checked, and insufficient weekly rest…and even after all that I was never jailed., but given a manageable fine each time, I don’t think they ever asked for my O licence tbh.
… and at one point it was close (nothing distasteful) …