tougher licensing
18th October 1990, Page 8
18th October 1990
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• The BBC's Watchdog consumer affairs programme is to campaign for tougher penalties on 'cowboy' operators. On Monday (15 October) it made allegations against a haulier and said that fines for running dangerous trucks were too low. Watchdog wants the vehicle licensing system to be tighter so that 'cowboys' find it impossible to trade and trucks can be impounded.
Truck and van hire entrepreneur Rafaello Bacci is worth 230m. He founded Salford Van Hire in 1965 with four vans. Today it runs a fleet of 5,000 vehicles, and its latest accounts showed net profits of 22m. The whole business is owned by the Bacci family.
Other millionaires include waste disposal entrepreneur Richard Biffa (246m) and Hillsdown Holdings owner David Thompson (2100m).