Carrier fined

Press, 19 August 1978, Page 4

Carrier fined

Nelson reporter A Nelson carrying company which pays road taxes ranging up to $30,000 a month and had prepaid $50,000 in tax, was convicted in the Magistrate’s Court in Nelson on a charge which involved the nonpayment of $1.75 in road user tax. Kirby’s Carriers, Ltd (Mr C. N. Tuohy) pleaded guilty to a charge that on June 1 it ran a vehicle when the reading on the distance recorder was more than the maximum reading specified in the distance licence on the vehicle. Mr K. H. J. Headifen,

S.M., was told that the vehicle, which had been brought round to the Ministry of Transport by an employee going for a driving test, had travelled 175 km more than the licence specified. Mr Tuohy said the vehicle was at the company’s premises waiting for a change from a distance recording on the odometer to a hub distance recorder. Local staff had been told not to use it. A country employee, however, had come into town and had taken the vehicle not realising it had to remain in the yard. The Comnany was fined $2O and ordered to pay $7 costs.