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Ex-haulier fined 0,935 on 95 summonses
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A FORMER HAULIER, an undischarged bankrupt now working as a greengrocer, was fined a total of £3,935 on 95 summonses relating to hours and records offences at LeWes magistrates' court last week, and given 13 years to pay.
Mr Keith Brown operated his former haulage company at Seaford "with almost total disregard of regulations which govern such businesses," according to the prosecuting counsel. Miss Margaret Cosgrave.
Miss Cosgrave said that Brown had operated his company with five vehicles and five drivers. On February 6 one of the vehicles had been stopped by the police because it had no operators' licence. A check of the company's records had followed and these had been compared with the gate passes issued at Newhaven harbour.
Discrepancies had been discovered and, after questioning drivers, it became apparent that the regulations were being ignored. Brown refused to answer any questions.
He told the magistrates, however, that he was running three companies for his father when the offences came to notice. He had not realized that the laws were so complicated but he had not deliberately told the drivers, who were all self employed, to break the law. Part of the trouble was the bad organization at Newhaven which called the lorries before ships had been unloaded, causing undue detention.
The magistrates told him that he should not take on a business unless he was aware of what was involved. "Whether it was pure laziness, pure stupidity or pure personal gain, you should be ashamed of what you have done," the chairman of the magistrates told him.
He was fined £50 on 18 charges of operating vehicles without an Excise licence, £60 on each of 43 cases of aiding and abetting drivers to keep false records, £10 on 13 cases of permitting drivers to drive more than 10 hours a day, and £25 on each of three cases of allowing drivers to work in excess of 1121/2 hours a day.
For nine summonses of using vehicles without an 0 licence he was fined £180 and £70 for seven record-sheet offences.
He was conditionally discharged for two years on two offences relating to operating vehicles without test certificates, and ordered to pay a total of £62.76 Costs.
The fines and costs must be paid at the rate of £5 a week.