Conditions for Fenney
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• Merseyside haulier Paula Fenney has been given a two-year conditional discharge after admitting a series of offences including using insurance certificates with intent to deceive.
Fenney. who trades as P&S Haulage, of Earle Street, Newton le Willows, also had her driving licence endorsed with eight penalty points, was disqualified from driving for two years and ordered to pay £2,101.66 back duty.
Appearing before Wigan Magistrates she pleaded guilty to two offences of using an insurance certikate with intent to deceive; three offences of causing
drivers to fail to use tachographs in accordance with the regulations; three offences of using vehicles without insurance; two offences of using vehicles when a higher rate of vehicle excise duty was payable; one offence of using a vehicle without an excise licence; and two offences of using vehicles without an 0-licence.
Manchester Police. Fenney was responsible for causing insurance cover notes to be produced to the police that had been altered to indicate that the vehicles were insured when in fact they were not.
When interviewed Fenney had admitted she was aware that there was no insurance for the vehicles and that she had altered the cover notes and allowed
her drivers to produce them to the police. She had said the drivers were not aware of the alterations.
Two of the drivers, Eric Lees, of St Helens, and Charles Hickman, of Warrington, were fined /40 for failing to use a tachograph. The third, Stephen Forber, of Newton le Willows, was fined £240 for failing to produce documents to the police and failing to use a tachograph.