Freight Firm Fined After No-Contest Plea
A Pacoima freight company will pay $12,700 in fines after pleading no contest Wednesday to the unsafe transportation of hazardous materials, Los Angeles City Atty. James K. Hahn’s office announced.
Viking Freight Systems will pay a $2,700 fine and make a $10,000 donation to a nonprofit environmental organization to be named later, according to Deputy City Atty. Brook White of the Environmental Protection Unit.
The charges stemmed from two incidents in which Viking drivers hauled hazardous materials that were unsecured in the company’s trucks. In Pacoima, a drum of copper cyanide fell out of a truck driven by 35-year-old Scott James Milroy of North Hollywood and was later removed from traffic lanes by a passerby.
Milroy pleaded no contest to a charge of littering and was fined $100, White said.
In the second incident, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Environmental Crimes Unit inspected a Viking truck near Gardena and noted an unsecured cargo of paint.
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