we can get sent to prison for fiddling tacho’s ect, but you can defraud people by running a business while band from doing so it seems and get away with a suspended sentence 
A bankrupt haulier who ignored a ban on being a director so that he could run a Devon haulage firm has escaped a prison sentence.
Shaun Standen pleaded guilty to breaching a disqualification order at Exeter Crown Court to continue running Westcountry Storage & Distribution under a new name, Russet Red.
But Judge Philip Wassall spared him jail, instead handing him a 16-month sentence suspended for two years.
Standen is also under a curfew, from 8pm to 7am for six months and he was ordered to pay costs of £5,000.
A CM investigation into Standen’s 15-year ban in 2011 also revealed that huge withdrawals of fuel were made by Westcountry in 2008 when its credit facility was about to be removed, prompting an Insolvency Service investigation.
Exeter Crown Court later found that the directors had no reasonable expectation of paying their fuelcard company back.
According to local reports, the haulier’s latest ploy to sidestep his disqualification by pretending to be his brother came unstuck because he is more than six foot tall and his brother is a mere 5ft 4 inches.
wildfire:
we can get sent to prison for fiddling tacho’s ect, but you can defraud people by running a business while band from doing so it seems and get away with a suspended sentence
A bankrupt haulier who ignored a ban on being a director so that he could run a Devon haulage firm has escaped a prison sentence.
Shaun Standen pleaded guilty to breaching a disqualification order at Exeter Crown Court to continue running Westcountry Storage & Distribution under a new name, Russet Red.
But Judge Philip Wassall spared him jail, instead handing him a 16-month sentence suspended for two years.
Standen is also under a curfew, from 8pm to 7am for six months and he was ordered to pay costs of £5,000.
A CM investigation into Standen’s 15-year ban in 2011 also revealed that huge withdrawals of fuel were made by Westcountry in 2008 when its credit facility was about to be removed, prompting an Insolvency Service investigation.
Exeter Crown Court later found that the directors had no reasonable expectation of paying their fuelcard company back.
According to local reports, the haulier’s latest ploy to sidestep his disqualification by pretending to be his brother came unstuck because he is more than six foot tall and his brother is a mere 5ft 4 inches.
why do I get a mental picture of the fools and horses characters the driscoll brothers ■■ 
I once worked for a rogue operator who were untouchable in the eyes of the law to pay me a months pay.
Solicitor and Employment Tribunal agreed in my favour.But the assets c could not be taken by bailifs as the two directors said i do nt pay him,it is the other director.
And you can not get money off an individual even though he was paying me.
They also stole fuel from fuel card firms.Did not pay staff and drivers.
No rent paid to the farmer for the yard space.
Changed the number plates to Dutch plates to avoid the truck finance payments.
There were many posts about them a few years ago.One director bought a field and built a luxury stables.Fancy holidays.Kids in private school on the back of not paying drivers.