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21st March 1996, Page 7
21st March 1996
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Keywords : Roberts, Wednesbury

by Peter Swingler • Electrical distribution firm National Homecare has been fined nearly 140,000 because it failed to make its drivers take minimum daily rest periods.

One driver, Terrence Roberts, who said he was threatened with the sack if he did not work 15 hours a day, was fined 11,230 when he and the firm appeared at West Bromwich magistrates court last week.

Vijai Kumar, defending, told the court Roberts has since been sacked by the company after cooperating with the police.

At a separate hearing, National Homecare was fined £6,750 after admitting 27 offences of permitting Roberts to drive without nine hours rest.

For the company, Geoffrey Davies admitted it had put drivers under subtle pressure hut said it in turn was under pressure from customers. National Homecare was fined 133,000 in February for similar offences involving other drivers.

A spokesman for the firm says it is to close its Wednesbury, West Bromwich depot to concentrate on the repair business.

"The 50 staff have been told about the closure and with the exception of five or six have all found other jobs," he says.


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