Wyatt fined £450 for 50 per cent overload
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• A Norfolk haulier was fined £450 by Ipswich magistrates last week for a near 50 per cent overload of a lorry and drawbar trailer unit.
J. Wyatt Jnr (Haulage) Ltd, of Diss. Norfolk, which in March had its operator's licence for 40 vehicles and 40 trailers reduced three quarters by the Eastern LA, following what the LA described as "persistent and deliberate" overloading, pleaded guilty by letter.
Mr Michael C. Clinton, a traffic examiner, told the court that a vehicle owned by Wyatt's was stopped by police on the Colchester by-pass on April 6. It was ordered to a weighbridge where the three-axle front section was found to weigh 27,220kg. The trailer weighed 17,900kg. giving a total of 45,120kg. against the maximum permitted British limit of 32,513kg. — 32 tons.
The prosecuting solicitor describing the overloading as "no slight error" and beyond the usual overloading cases coming before the court; he referred to a long list of convictions against the company going back to 1968.
Wyatt was fined £150 each on three charges for overloading the lorry, trailer, and combined unit. Prosecution costs of £15 were also allowed.