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The Wrexham and Flintshire Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association are concerned over the dripping of water on to the highway from vehicles carrying washed sand. The local by-laws are being contravened, and discussions are being held with quarry owners with a view to approaching the county council for amendments. .
The practice of examining officers and taxation authorities stopping vehicles and weighing them on one wheel at a time isi considered dangerous by many hauliers, and the ;natter has been discussed at high level in the north-west. Difficulties about the legal position should a serious accident occur through a tyre blow-out, injuring officials or other parties, are to be investigated, and the matter is being taken up with the tyre manufacturers.