RHA stickers lead to £500 fine for Central Roadways
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• Central Roadways has been fined 2500 with £60 costs for displaying Road Haulage Association stickers on one of its Leyland Daf trucks when the company was not a member.
The BrierIey Hill-based firm pleaded guilty before Dudley magistrates last week, admitting that by showing the membership sticker it was making a statement it knew to be false, contrary to Section 14 of the Trades Descriptions Act.
Michelle Madelin, prosecuting, said that the RHA's district manager had written to the company in September last year requesting their removal, and the company had replied saying the vehicles had been purchased with the stickers on, and that they would now be taken off.
When a trading standards officer had later visited the company he observed a Daf truck with RHA stickers on both sides of the cab. When interviewed company secretary George Atterbury had claimed that he had had no opportunity to remove them and that he had instructed the drivers to remove them, but had not checked to see that they had done so.
Atterbury is considering appealing against the size of the fine.