In Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Verna, 23 Pa. Commw. 260, 351 A.2d 694 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1976), the Court recognized that a trial court's role in an inspection certificate appeal is limited solely to a de novo determination of whether the person charged with the violation has indeed committed the violation for which the sanction was imposed. The court may not, as a parallel to exercising its discretion as factfinder, do more than: (1) affirm the Director's penalty because the law as applied to the facts heard de novo leads to a conclusion of a violation of the law or; (2) reverse the Director's penalty because the law as applied to the facts heard de novo does not lead to a conclusion of a violation of law. The court may not, because of the possible unfairness or inequity of the result, reverse the Director or modify the penalty imposed. Id. at 695.