Haulier of the Year in hours check • Police are
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planning to raise summonses involving Carlisle haulier Eddie Stobart over charges against various people relating to alleged drivers' hours offences.
"A number" of summonses are planned to be raised although it is not yet clear who or what they will apply to: the company, directors or drivers.
However it is understood the case is complicated and involves many people.
Last week company boss Eddie Stobart said his company had no need to fiddle drivers' hours and stressed he knew of no move to raise summonses. "This is all pretty new to me," he said. "There was an investigation 18 months ago but nothing serious was found ... if summonses are raised there's nothing they've got on us that I'm worried about. I've nothing at all to hide — we've no need to fiddle."
Eddie Stobart Ltd, which was voted Motor Transport's Haulier of the Year last year, operates 320 vehicles from a network of 17 depots.
It made a profit of Lim on a turnover of £25.1m in 1991. So far this year the company is on course to achieve a turnover of around £35m.
The police investigation began after they stopped a Stobart vehicle and discovered that it had a tachograph fault.
Police then took tachograph charts and interviewed drivers from various depots.