Fines for Unlicensed Operating
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Not Wanted in the Transport Business, says Defendant
THREE men were fined a total of £107 at Romford (Essex) Magistrates' Court last week for 107 offences of transporting sewage waste from Riverside Works at Rainham without holding C carriers' licences.
One of the men, Joseph Fordham, a director of Fordham and Son (Transport), Rainham, pleaded not guilty. Ernest Johnson, of Hornchurch, and Michael Tingey, East Ham, admitted the offences.
Fordham was fined £58, with £8 8s, costs. He was conditionally discharged on 49 other counts of aiding and abetting Johnson and Tingey. Johnson was lined 1.34. Tingey was fined £15, with £4 I6s. costs.
Miss Mary Colton, prosecuting for the Ministry of Transport, said an asphalt company sub-contracted the job of transporting the waste to Fordham, who further sub-contracted some of the work to Johnson and Tingey. Each of them used their own vehicles.
An application by Johnson on September 30 last for a B licence was still being considered, said Miss Colton. The offences occurred between September 14 and October 3.
When interviewed by a Ministry
inspector, Tingey was alleged to have said: I. haven't got a licence. I know I'm committing an offence, hut 1 have to earn a living. I applied for a B licence at the beginning of the month. 1 was only carrying sewage muck."
Tingey was fined £1 on each of 60 similar offences on a previous occasion and £1 on each of 21 offences at another court, said Miss Colton. Johnson was lined £1 earlier for a similar offence at Thames Court, Johnson told the court: " I've worked hard all my life. Heaven knows I've tried hard enough to. get a licence, but it is very difficult. . We are not stealing anything or robbing anyone. Nobody else wanted to do the work. We are working fellows and I have a big debt staring me in the face for my motors."
Miss Colton said the delay in the granting of licences was probably caused by objections from other hauliers.
Fordham told the court: "I have applied for 20 B licences, but I'm not wanted in the transport business: I've met a lot of opposition, They think nobody else should be in the game. To get in I had to put two haulage firms out,"