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THREE directors, two traffic clerks and 21 drivers of two Lancashire hauliers, Charter Roadways and Sableglow, have been committed for trial at Preston Crown Court by the Chorley magistrates. The case involves 1,400 allegations concerning the falsification of tachograph records.
William Graham and Gordon Greenwood, both directors of hauliers Charter Roadways; Gordon McLeod, a director of Sableglow; and traffic clerks Phillip Lonsdale and David Linley each face 150 allegations that they aided and abetted drivers to make false records. Charter Roadways faces 145 such allegations and Sableglow five.
The drivers who each face either 10 or 15 allegations of falsification are Andrew Atkinson, Anthony Brown, Andrew Day, James Hoaen, Dermot O'Brien, Kenneth Poppleton, Christopher Price, Michael Scothern, Barry Rich, Alan Wynn, Robert Rogers, Anthony Westward, Robert Blair, Stewart Taylor, Thomas Hadzik, John Vincent, Terence Huntress, Harold Eckersall, Peter Walker, Alan McLeod and Mark Smith.
The trial, which will take place in the New Year, is expected to last around four weeks.