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frading officer ;pots overload
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A South Wales haulier has last its licence thanks to a sharp-eyed trading standards officer who tailed one of the firm's grossly overloaded vehicles.
Neil McCarthy, of Cain Coed, Merthyr Tydfil, was called afore Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourlet at a awport disciplinary inquiry but failed to appear.
Trading standards officer Alan Owen told the DTC that he 3d seen the vehicle concerned travelling along a main road. a stopped it and spoke to the driver, who said he had not eighed the load and had no plans to do so.
The vehicle was taken to a weighbridge where it was found have a gross overload of 56.4% and a rear-axle overload 55%. No 0-licence identity disc or plating certificate was splayed. McCarthy was subsequently fined ENO with 149.95 costs; Owen believed the fine had not yet been paid.
The DTC revoked McCarthy's 0-licence and disqualified rn from holding or obtaining one for two years on the 'minds that he had last his repute.
He noted that McCarthy also had convictions for criminal arnage, actual bodily harm and assaulting the police, for inch he had received a custodial sentence and a community 3rvice order. None of those convictions had been declared in ,cCarthys licence application form. In addition no financial :tails were available.