:conofreight — awaiting a weighting boss
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A weighbridge operator is k be summoned to give evience before the Lichfield kagistrates about the weighing I an artic belonging to EconofAght United Transport, beRise there is confusion about bether the weighing actually kok place.
The company and the driver [the artic — Leslie Taylor, of he Crescent Northallerton — eny overloading the pin axle and exceeding the permitted gross weight of the tractor.
Defending, Stephen Kirkbright said that the basis of the not-guilty pleas was that Taylor had weighed the vehicle before setting off on the journey concerned, and that the weights then recorded had been substantially different than those recorded when he had been consequently stopped in a Department of Transport check. It had been the defence's intention to call the weighbridge operator, but it had transpired late the previous day that he had not been available to give evidence.
The prosecution, however, had also not been prepared to accept the weighbridge operator's written statement, and indeed it was going to query whether that weighing had even taken place at all.