£7,000 to pay in fines and costs
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• Haulage con tractor Julie Sinclair, trading as Rochdale Road Runner, was ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty of nearly £7,030 when she admitted a series of offences to Rawtenstall magistrates, Lancs.
Sinclair pleaded guilty to seven offences of running vehicles without vehicle excise licences; six offences of running them without MoTs; 12 offences of allowing drivers to break hours regulations; 13 offences of not keeping tachograph records and one of using an unauthorised operating centre.
Three of the firm's drivers were ordered to pay fines and costs of £650 after admitting a
series of drivers' hours offences at an earlier hearing before the magistrates (CM 9-15 Dec1993).
the daily running of the business which handles parcels to and from the Ukraine.
Some of the tachograph records were lost during the move to a new operating centre, she said.
The chairman of the magistrates told Sinclair she was legally responsible.