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A HAULAGE and plant hire I pany which was part of th( candy collapsed T. E. .1( group in Shropshire has I ordered to pay £1,400 in I and costs for 149 drivi records offences.
Oswestry magistrates to drew or dismissed a furthe alternative charges and 10 w would have been conteste evidence had been offered.
T. E. Jones (Plant Hire) ad ted 78 charges of failing produce drivers' records ant offences of failing to cause c ers to keep records.
The magistrates fined company £5 on each charg+ failing to produce and £10 failing to cause the driver; keep records. They also orde the company to pay £300 cos' It was claimed the offer were brought about becaus cleaner accidentally burne( plastic sack in which the recc had been collected.
Mr D. P. McKnight, for West Midlands Licensi Authority, said the comp, gained a contract to transg coke from Shotton steelwc on Deeside to steelworks South Wales.
He told the court that authority's traffic examiners came disturbed when it peered the vehicles wt working day and night and ti were concerned that driv could have been working o their permitted hours.
An officer visited the firr Shropshire depot and served' tice for the records to be mE available. An extension of til on the notice was granted.
But, said Mr McKnight, wh the officer returned the transp manager seemed somewhat a tated.
"He said they had put all records together in a black pli tic sack and left them in t office. When he returned th were gone," he said.
Mr McKnight said that records for the following mon discrepancies were discoverec Mr Wilson for the compa said that it had takeft on mc than it could cope with. It h insufficient staff and vehicles carry out the contract.
Solomon Cohen, a Lond chartered accountant, has be appointed liquidator of the T. Jones group, which also i eludes two bus and coach cot panies. The seven companies the group owe an estirnatt £2.5m.