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Heavy fines for special types overload

9th September 2004
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A GROSS overload on a low loader cost a London company and its driver £1,350 in fines and costs when they appeared before Barking Magistrates' Court.

Bow Haulage, of Wick Lane, Bow, London, and its driver, Thomas Doyle, of South Ockenden, both denied the charge but were found guilty by the magistrates. Traffic examiner David King told the court that a Foden special type low loader articulated goods vehicle carrying a dump truck was weighed and found to be overloaded.

The tractor's maximum permitted gross weight of 24390kgs was exceeded by 16.53% or 4,030kgs.

For the company and driver, Paul O'Grady said that neither believed that the weighing had been undertaken properly.

Anthony Ostrin. prosecuting for VOSA, said that it had been a tri-plate weighing. The rear of the vehicle could not be weighed satisfactorily; however the tractor unit could and it was found to be overweight.

The company was fined £600 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £400, a total of 11,000. and Doyle was fined £250 and ordered to pay costs of £100.


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