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Sloan: 'Muffins out of control'
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• The extent of the problems inherited by Norfolk Line in its acquisition of Murfitts Transport in 2001 were being more fully revealed at a Cambridge disciplinary inquiry as CMwent to press.
Norfolk Line group chairman Derek Sloan told Eastern TC Geoffrey Simms that the company was running out of control. He had immediately replaced Murfitts, senior management team, including managing director Mari( Murfitt, as a result.
For the VI, John Hodgson said that in 1997 and 1998 Murfitts and a number of its drivers were prosecuted for drivers' hours offences.
A further investigation revealed 114 had broken drivers' hours and tachograph rules in the UK in 2001. A total of 94 drivers had broken the rules abroad. There were also gaps in the records of 127 vehicles; in 45 cases, the gap covered more than 1,000km.
Edward Green, Norfolk Line's managing director and a director of Murfitts said that the only similarity now was the name; very few people were left from the previous regime. The international road-train operation had been abandoned as it could not be operated profitably or legally.
The hearing was continuing as CMwent to press.