Site overload 'an occupational hazard'
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• A Lancashire haulier operating six vehicles and four trailers told the North Western deputy LA, Mr P. G. Haywood, that he had given up for the time being work in connection with quarries, since one of his vehicles had been found to be overloaded and the driver subsequently prosecuted. Mr D. Dewsbury of Dewsbury Haulage, Boundary Street Yard, Bury, who appeared under Section 69 of the Transport Act 1968, said that following the overloading conviction the firm had stuck to its normal work of transporting ashes, brick and breeze blocks. Any quarry work obtained was being contracted Out.
Mr Dewsbury said that the offence occurred despite the fact that the driver
involved was an extremely experienced man; all his drivers engaged on quarry work were regularly reminded not to overload, He told the deputy LA that at most quarry...sites there existed no machinery whatsoever for weighing the load. The financial gain he claimed on the load which led to the conviction was in fact just 55p. Mr G. J. P. Beames, appearing for the firm, said it had no previous conviction. The deputy LA issued a warning on the danger of loverloading but decided to take no action on this occasion. He agreed with Mr Beames that overloading for contractors working in and around the big sites was "an occupational hazard".