Whorton's Tough Tonic

• The managing director of II J Whorton Transport was so incensed about one of the company's drivers overloading a vehicle, that he took legal advice about a private prosecution......

• A Lorry Driver Who Claimed He Did Not Know

about the trading standards regulations covering how much he could carry was given an absolute discharge by Dover magistrates on 25 January. Michael Powell from Deal was stopped......

Passenger Gets £650,000 Award

• Car passenger Timothy Harris has won .2650,000 compensation with costs for the brain damage he suffered when his wife drove into a lorry stranded across a three-lane road.......

• A Slab Of Marble Which Moved Six Inches Nearly

cost a Gainsborough firm a fine at Dover magistrates court last Wednesday (January 25). Richard Pilborough • of Kent County Council Trading Standards office told the court that......

Only Half Of The Fleet Insured

• Alan Blakey and his son Simon, respectively managing director and company secretary of three South Humberside haulage companies, were alleged to have systematically insured......