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Big Fines for Watts Bros. on Records Offences
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EINES totalling 1872 were imposed on
Watts Bros. (Beverley) Ltd., haulage contractors, and 32 of the company's drivers last week by the Beverley, Yorks, magistrates. The company was fined £545 on 109 summonses alleging failure to have records kept and the drivers £327 for failing to keep the records. The drivers pleaded that the offences were committed in ignorance.
Mr. S. R. Dalton, representing the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, said it was not suggested that there was anything more sinister, as in certain other cases, where lack of records was deliberate to hide something more
serious. "This seems a case of sheer negligence," he added.
For the company and the drivers. Mr. David Hodgson admitted all the offences, He said the company had offices in Lairgate, but the rest of the business was now in Manor Road. which had caused a breakdown in communications. The business had been run by Mr. Arthur Watts, but because of expansions and his increasing age. he had been compelled to hand over the greater part of the business to a fellow director, who had not appreciated the necessity for continuous, rigid enforcement of the regulations.