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More weighbridges Off-the-shelf and less overloading
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• A reduction in incidents of gross overloading from 60 per cent before the implernentation of the Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act 1972 to 25 per cent now among vehicles passing through ports in the South Eastern traffic area was claimed by the clerk to the South Eastern Licensing Authority, Mr C. Holt, this week.
Mr Holt was taking part in a discussion with members of Folkestone's Chamber of Trade after they had expressed their concern at the number of heavy vehicles passing through Folkestone, and particularly after a number of accidents on the notorious I-in-7 Dover Hill.
The meeting was told of the new powers of the DoE to impound foreign vehicles which did not satisfy British regulations and Mr Holt said that a portable axle weigher was already in operation at Southampton and Folkestone was to have a permanent weighbridge. Additional portable axle weighers were to be provided at lay-by sites on A2 and A20 trunk roads.
Members of the Chamber were particularly critical of British Railways ferries because they were concerned only with the overall dimensions of the vehicles they carried and not with the weight.