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IRS loses its appeal
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• A Crown Court judge refused to interfere with the maximum fine of £1,000 per offence imposed on Tanker Road Services of Lichfield, after being told that every one of the company's vehicles examined had had its electronic tachograph interfered with.
Tanker Road Services had appealed against fines totalling £37,850, imposed after Lichfield Magistrates had convicted it in its absence of seven offences of using vehicles with unsealed tachographs, 22 of failing to produce tachograph records and 22 of failing to preserve tachograph records (CM 10-16 December 1987.)
Giles Harrison-Hall, prosecuting, said that when traffic examiners and police officers had visited the company's premises in November 1986, all 11 vehicles inspected had had unsealed tachographs.
Ordering the company to pay 90% of the prosecution's appeal costs, Judge Keith Blennerhasset QC said that he had no sympathy with the company, whose actions had been approaching impudence.
Blennerhassett dismissed an appeal by one of the company's drivers, Brian Richardson of Norton Canes, against his conviction on two offences of falsifying charts, for which he had been fined £300, and ordered that Richardson pay the prosecution's appeal costs, estimated at £2,500. A second driver, Glyn Griffith of Telford, was fined £500 with £250 prosecution costs, and one month's imprisonment in default.
Two other drivers pleaded guilty to falsifying charts: John Hunt of Ludgershall, near Andover, admitted nine such offences and was fined £100 per offence with £250 prosecution costs and one month's im prisonment in default; Peter Foster of Pelsall, near Walsall, admitted one offence and was fined £200 and ordered to pay £200 prosecution costs with one month's imprisonment in default.
Questioned about a statement that the company was in liquidation, Angela Andrews, defending three of the drivers, said she was now instructed that it had ceased trading.
The legal costs were being paid by a director, Philip Leo Taylor.