Maxi Haulage fined over tad° records
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• Irvine-based Maxi Haulage, which operates 200 vehicles, has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £9,040 following an investigation of its Leamington Spa depot.
The investigation was can-ied out by Warwickshire Police and Department of Transport traffic examiners.
The company admitted 133 offences of failing to preserve tachograph records for 12 months and 11 offences of using vehicles when the tachograph was not used correctly.
Twenty of the company's drivers, who admitted driving excessive hours and taking insufficient rest, were ordered to pay fines and costs of £3,675. PC Steven Wilson said Maxi Haulage's office was in complete disarray, with tachograph records scattered all over the place. Examination of charts seemed to reveal pressure on the drivers to get their vehicles back to base so that they could do night runs.
For Maxi Haulage, John Backhouse said the Leamington depot had failed to follow company procedures. As soon as these matters came to light, the company acted immediately, he added.
Two people who had been in charge at Leamington were no longer with the company.