No Yates: fine on weights
16th May 1987, Page 18
16th May 1987
Page 18
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• Scottish haulier James H Yates and Sons of Cumnock, Ayrshire, which had indicated it proposed fighting overloading allegations, has been convicted in its absence and fined £200 by the Stafford Magistrates for gross and rear axle overloads on a 16-tonne two-axle Scania flat-bed lorry.
Patrick McKnight, prosecuting for the West Midland licensing Authority, said that the vehicle was carrying animal feed between Bristol and Cumnock when he was check weighted. There was an overload of 1,790kg on the rear axle (some 17.6%) and a gross overload of 1,410kg, or 8.6%.
Driver Cecil Millar of Cumnock was fined £50 with £30 costs after pleading guilty by letter.