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GTE Transport fined for overloading offences

10th July 2008, Page 13
10th July 2008
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A HAULAGE COMPANY based in Telford, Shropshire, has been fined a total of £4,700 after pleading guilty to overloading a vehicle on two occasions.

GTE Transport of Horsehay Estate was also ordered by Solihull magistrates to pay a total of £561 costs after admitting both of the overloading charges. It already had a previous conviction for overloading.

Driver Lindsay Thomson admitted one overloading offence and was fined £300 with £172 costs.

Dominic Green, prosecuting for Vosa, said the two offences happened within a month of each other, following checks near Birmingham. One vehicle was overloaded by more than 1,000kg, or 30%.

Mark Hickman Grant, representing GTE, said the firm's management had since spent thousands of pounds on fitting on-board weighing devices to the vehicles in order to make sure the offences were not repeated.

He said the company was struggling at present because of rising fuel costs and tax after having made a profit of £600,000 last year on a £1.2m turnover.

One of the magistrates said the fines faced by the firm would have totalled £7,000, but that the amounts had been reduced because of the guilty plea.

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