School bus firm Ausden Clark at risk after boss is fined £10,000 at Leicester court,
Ausden Clark operate school contracts in Rutland
The managing director of a coach firm has been prosecuted for forging paperwork – leaving its future in the balance.
Paul
Ausden-Clark (56), managing director of Ausden Clark, was ordered to
pay almost £28,000 in fines and costs after admitting 74 offences of
forging reports of coach inspections and maintenance work during a
hearing at Leicester Crown Court Thursday.
Fining Ausden-Clark £10,000 and ordering him to pay £17,815 in costs, Judge Simon Hammond said the offences were serious.
the company also operate school contracts in the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire area
they are also the official coach company for Leicester City Football Club
Paul Ausden-Clark employs 100 people and he risks losing everything. If his licence is revoked it would close the business.
The fate of the firm, which was started by Ausden-Clark 30 years ago, will be decided by the Department of Transport
Anthony Cross, representing Ausden-Clark: "He's not operated a perfect system but the business
compares favourably to any other privately-owned coach company."
the business was fined in 2010 in relation to tachograph offences.
