Overloading two charges for 'one' offence
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• Although some summonses for both gross and axle overloading might seem two charges for one offence, magistrates should consider that a gross overload was dangerous to the public and an axle overload a danger to roads and bridges.
This was put to Bolton magistrates this week by Mr J. S. Lawton, prosecuting for the North Western Licensing Authority, when CKM (Civil Engineering Contractors) Ltd, Eccles, Lanes, and one of its drivers, Mr Owen Houten, appeared on charges of overloading a four-wheeled Commer tipper. Fines and costs totalling £92 were imposed.
Evidence was given that the lorry had stopped in Raikes Lane, Bolton, and when check-weighed was found to have a gross overload of 1 ton 7cwt 3qtr and a rear axle overload of 1 ton lOcwt.
Both defendants pleaded guilty The magistrates fined the company £20 on each of two charges of permitting gross and axle overloads plus £6 costs, a total of £46, and driver Houten was fined similar amounts on two charges of using with £6 costs.