A truck driver facing sentence in the District Court over a fatal crash at Mullengandra has pleaded guilty to several other driving-related offences.
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The matters all relate to log book and rest break breaches committed just days before the Hume Highway tragedy.
Jamie William Egan fronted Albury Local Court this week from Bathurst jail, where he has been held for several months since deciding to forgo bail and go into custody.
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Egan, 48, admitted to five charges of making a false entry, two of working in excess of the standard maximum hours and three of resting for less than the mandated minimum time.
"I'm accepting there's genuine remorse," magistrate Richard Funston told Egan on convicting him, but also deciding to take "no further action".
Defence lawyer Rocco Gramoglia, appearing via a video link to Sydney, said Egan knew what he did "was wrong".
"He accepts full responsibility for what he's done."
Egan will be sentenced in the District Court on February 19 on a charge of dangerous driving occasioning death while driving under the influence.
He has admitted using methamphetamine shortly before the crash on the Hume Highway on March 28, 2019.
Egan's own dash-cam footage showed his truck striking a trailer being towed by 63-year-old Rex Martin, who witnesses tried to save.
"It's likely that a lengthy period of imprisonment will follow," Mr Gramoglia said.
The driving breaches related to runs Egan carried out in 2019 between: Sydney and Werribee on March 12; from Mooroopna to Eastern Creek on March 15 and 16; from Eastern Creek to Tarcutta on March 16; and, from Eastern Creek to Werribee on March 18 and 19.
