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Overloading costs Brown a grand
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Exceeding the permitted gross weight of a 10-tonne vehicle has cost Sussexbased N Brown £1,000 in fines and costs.
The company; of Chariwood Read, Crawley, admitted the offence before the Barking Magistrates. It was fined £750 and ordered to pay £250 costs.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for VOSA, told the court that a Leyland two-axled rigid owned and operated by N Brown was stopped hi a weight check while carrying water pipes and cement_ When weighed, the vehicle was found to be overloaded by 14.9%, with the maximum per
mitted gross weight of 10,000kg being exceeded at 1,490kg.
For the company, Richard Orridge said that it was unaware that the vehicle had been overloaded. It had been on long-term hire, with N Brown supplying the driver and maintaining the vehicle. The vehicle was painted in the livery of those to whom the vehicle had been hired. He told the court that the company had a good record and were morally blameless.
Ostrin said that the driver, Ian Cresswell, had previously pleaded guilty to exceeding the maximum permitted gross weight and had been fined £200 and ordered to pay 170 costs.