Intake fined £45k for drivers' hours offences
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INTAKE TRANSPORT has been ordered to pay £45,000 after clocking up 30 drivers' hours offences.
The Scunthorpe-based haulier pleaded guilty to all 30 charges, following an 18-month VOSA investigation.The company was fined £500 for each offence at Scunthorpe Magistrates Court last week and ordered to pay £30,000 towards prosecution costs. Two of the firm's HGV drivers pleaded guilty to creating false drivers' hours records Fines totalling £3,290 were also handed out to six drivers for not taking proper rests.
Alex Fiddes, VOSA chief operating officer, says: "Tired drivers run the risk of causing serious or fatal accidents. This case shows what a dim view the courts take of drivers and operators who abuse rules and don't take proper rests. VOSA is determined to find and prosecute those people who endanger the lives of other road users in this way."
Intake Transport, which has an 0-licence for 50 vehicles and 130 trailers, will have to appear before a public inquiry and could have its licence revoked.