PERMITS OPERATOR PENALISED
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MIDDLE East operator Charles Thurleigh, trading. as Arrow Freight lnternationa, was ordered. to pay a total of £655 in fines and court costs, last week.
He had been convicted on two charges of possessing forged haulage permits and another of not issuing an invidual control book.
Stipendiary magistrate Kenneth Cooke, at Tower Bridge Court, London, said: The forged permits were valuable documents because they enabled a haulier to derive a profit he would not get otherwise. Mr Thurleigh was convicted of giving a haulier's drivers two forged permits to use on a road journey through Germany to Iran with two loads of prefabricated buildings. And he was convicted of failing to give one of the drivers an individual control book to record the run east.
Michael Burrell, for the Department of Transport said Mr Thurleigh, had been given a job by freight forwarders Kuhne Nagle. He had then sub-contracted the two loads and had agreed to arrange tne documentation for the loads.
The documentation given to the drivers by Mr Thurleigh included the two forged permits, but there was no suggestion that he had forged them. When the permits were presented to German border officials on September 22 1975, they were confiscated and the lorries were refused entry.
The permits — produced in court — were made out to Crescent Transport Ltd, of Dagenham. This company had not held an 0 licence and had never been issued with permits, Mr Burrell said. The permits were not the right colour and the stamp of the International Road Freight Office at Newcastle was the wrong size.
The officer whose signature was across the stamp denied having written it.
Defence counsel John Nutting said International regulations made things difficult for the haulier.
Mr Cooke, who said he had spent some hours studying the EEC regulations, ...Ad Mr Thurleigh: "The record book is there to ensure that drivers do not thunder along the roads of Europe with a very heavy lorry in a state of fatigue."
Mr Thurleigh was fined £150 on each of the permit charges and £75 on the records charge. He was also ordered to pay £280 costs.