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IT haulier Alan Brooks, of Wel ing, was fined E500 plus costs at ley Magistrates Court last week (CM, September 5, 1981).
r Brooks was found guilty on counts. He was fined £300 using an operator's licence Itity certificate with intent to eive; £75 for making a false ement that his trading name . G. A. Thompson (Haulage) £75 for making a false stateit that he was a director of G. 'hompson (Haulage) Ltd; and for allowing a driver to use ininsured vehicle.
lr Brooks was ordered to con tribute £60 towards costs. He was found not guilty on 12 charges relating to drivers' record books.
Mr Brooks was also found not guilty of using an uninsured motor vehicle on the road. His driving licence was endorsed, but although the totting up system should have resulted in a ban, the magistrates decided that he needed transport to travel the 12 miles to work every day.
He was given seven days to pay the fines.
His brother, Robert Brooks of Brooks Transport, of Purfleet, Essex, told the court that he was the employer of the two drivers in question and was responsible for the filling in of any papers and drivers records. He said the lorries used were also part of his own fleet, although he had since sold one of them.
Although Alan Brooks often gave instructions to his brother's drivers, Robert Brooks said that he ran the company, and that his brother occasionally helped him out.
For the prosecution, John Corballis suggested that Alan Brooks, in fact, ran the company under his brother's name to escape difficulties with the bankruptcy courts. Robert Brooks strongly denied this.