Richard R. Christman, a dispatcher for Ontelaunee Transport Services Inc., Kempton, PA, was recently sentenced in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to two months’ home confinement, three years’ supervised release, a $1,000 fine and a $2,000 special assessment for helping to falsify driver daily logbooks.

In April 2004, Christman pleaded guilty to all 20 counts of a July 2003 indictment charging him with allowing, encouraging and causing Ontelaunee drivers to violate federal highway safety laws by driving more than the maximum lawful number of daily driving hours and with concealing hours-of-service violations.

Seven Ontelaunee drivers were previously sentenced as a result of this investigation. The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General with assistance from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.