US DOT: Trucking company, owner sentenced in driver log fraud case.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-25 January 1999-US DOT: Trucking company, owner sentenced in driver log fraud case (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220199 The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced that Barry Sather, and his company, Barry Sather Truck Service, Inc., of Brooklyn Park, Minn., were sentenced in United States District Court for falsifying driver's logs, in violation of federal safety regulations.

Motor carrier safety is one of the OIG's high priority programs and since January 1997, its investigations have resulted in 39 indictments, 32 convictions, and $1.6 million in fines, recoveries, and restitution. Sather, 55, was sentenced on Dec. 23, 1998, to one year probation with 180 days of home detention and...