Court hearings cost K Transport £31,000
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• At its second court appearance in less than a month, Staffs-based 43-vehicle haulier K Transport Services (Midlands) was ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty of 111,704 after admitting using untaxed vehicles.
In the past four weeks the company has been ordered to pay nearly £31000 in fines and costs by the same court.
In the latest case, K Transport admitted making false declarations to obtain excise discs and failing to produce tacho records. It was fined .a00 on each of the offences of using vehicles without tax and .L250 on each offence of failing to produce records. It was ordered to pay £4,604 in back duty and £350 prosecution costs.
Before the same court, Wolverhampton magistrates, on 18 July, the company was fined nearly £19,000.
It admitted 10 offences of using untaxed vehicles, 10 offences of making false declarations to obtain excise licences, 24 offences of failing to produce tacho records and 10 offences of permitting drivers to exceed the daily driving limit and take insufficient rest.
For the company, Martin Jones said the offences resulted from negligence and ineptitude in the traffic office. Jones claimed that traffic manager Andrew Hill allowed vehicles to go out when they ought not to have done.
During past year the company grew dramatically, too quickly for its structure to cope, he said.