According to the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Transportation, a dispatcher for a Pennsylvania trucking company has been sentenced for his part in a logbook cheat.

Richard R. Christman, a dispatcher for Ontelaunee Transport Services Inc. of Kempton, PA, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to two months home confinement, three years supervised release, a $1000 fine and a $2,000 special assessment for his role in a scheme involving falsification of drivers’ daily logbooks.

In April 2004, Christman pleaded guilty to 20 counts from 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 falsifying their daily logbooks to conceal hours-of-service violations.

Seven Ontelaunee drivers were previously sentenced as a result of this investigation. The case was investigated with assistance from FMCSA.