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Lea Anto loses licence
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• Watford-based Lea Anto Continental lost its licence last week when the firm failed to produce tachograph charts for Metropolitan Licensing Authority Ronald Ashford, and was convicted for hours and tacho offences.
The LA also disqualified the company's directors, Mr G and Mrs R La Porta, from holding an 0-licence in any traffic area for the next three years.
The company was convicted by Watford magistrates in October 1986 of a series of driver's hours offences, failing to produce records and taxing one of its vehicles at the wrong rate of excise duty. It was fined a total of £1,500, and in February 1987 it was fined another £1,250 for six driver's hours offences and two of fail
ing to produce records. On the same day its sister company, Continental Freight Services, was convicted of failing to produce records.
Offences involving driver's hours were extremely serious, said Ashford. The failure to produce records was also a grave matter, especially when the failure was persistent. Though the odd failure might be excused, when it became a persistent pattern he was forced to conclude that it was a deliberate ploy to conceal more serious malpractice.