JF Alford trial set for November
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– Southampton-based JF Alford Transport, its managing director and its transport manager, denied aiding and abetting drivers to make false entries on tachograph record sheets when they appeared before Southampton Crown Court last Monday.
The company's managing director, James Alford, of Golden House, Stoney Cross, and transport manager Peter Payne, of Prince of Wales Avenue, Regent's Park, Southampton, each pleaded not guilty to 56 counts of aiding and abetting drivers to falsify tachograph records during 1993. Their trial will start in November.
Seventeen of the company's drivers pleaded guilty to a mixture of counts involving the falsification of tachograph records, brought under the Transport Act, and making false instruments—tachograph records—contrary to the Forgery Act. They are to be sentenced after the completion of the trials of managers Alford and Payne. Not guilty pleas were entered by 12 drivers. Trial dates in their cases have yet to be fixed.