More weighbridges the answer to overloading
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• Each overweight lorry is a potential killer, agreed Mr John Peyton in the Commons last week.
This was the phrase used by Mr David Clark (Labour, Colne Valley) after Mr Peyton had told him that 3662 lorries — two per cent of all checked — were found to be overweight during the 12 months to the end of September.
"I agree entirely with what the hon. Gentleman says. Overloading is a menace.replied Mr Peyton.
Mr Leslie Huckfield (Labour, Nuneaton) wondered whether the Minister had ever tried weighing an articulated lorry, axle by axle, on a public weighbridge "more suited to a wheelbarrow". One of the main answers to the problem was more, bigger and better public weighbridges, suggested the MP.
Mr Peyton confessed that he had never tried the operation mentioned by Mr Huckfield — but he was right about the use of weighbridges.