85 summonses cost haulier £314

12th May 1967, Page 78

12th May 1967

Page 78

Page 78, 12th May 1967 — 85 summonses cost haulier £314

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FINES totalling £255 and /59 5s. 4d. fees and

costs were imposed on Pointon's Fuel and Transport Ltd., of Manchester, at Sandbach Magistrates Court on Monday for 85 charges of aiding and abetting eight operators to contravene Section 164 of the 1960 Act.

The case followed the conviction of the eight operators in February for running vehicles unlawfully, although each was granted an absolute discharge.

Mr. Wilfred Pointon, head of Pointon's, had persuaded each of them to purchase a flat sixwheeled vehicle, supplied B hiring licences, and acted as agent for work to be done for Cerebos Foods Ltd., said Mr. D. Turner, prosecuting for the Ministry of Transport. The drivers, who thus became operators, were in error for using those licences. Mr. Pointon had also "hired" licences belonging to J. R. Witham Ltd. and passed them on to these operators.

For Mr. Pointon, Mr. J. R. Oakes said that he was under the impression the company had hired each vehicle from its owner. Mr. Turner, however, reminded the bench that a hirer becomes the operator of the vehicle in question, and either drives it, or provides a driver. As in these cases the owners drove, offences were committed.