Humberside plans traps for overloaders
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OVERLOADED vehicl face a crack-down ((Mown moves by Humberside tra ing standards officers to ta on more staff to light lai breaking operators.
Its trading standards depai ment has been allocated . extra 00, 0011 for the financ: year beginning in Marc: which will rise to 00,0(X) 1987/88. From then on the will be a permanent annu rise of I50,000 at 1985 prices
This means an addition an extra five staff to the 1( at present. They arc part needed to operate three ext weighbridges — at George VI Dock, Hull; on d
no approach to tl Humber Bridge, and at a si at South Cave — which should be opened by di summer.
Chief trailing standar( officer Jack Brudencll persuaded Humberside's pul lie protection committee di action to curb overloadir was necessary and co: effective.
In a special report presenti to the committee, he aur buted road damage in the n gion to overloaded lorries.
Of the selective tests carrii out by the officers in thc fivi and-a-half years from Apt 1980 to September 1985. 7"; (21.5 per cent) of vehich were overloaded.
One such check resulted i one haulier, Colin C. r Booth i (Transport) facing 7 5111/1/1101/SCS for overloadin his vehicles. In three days i January 1985, 171 deliverit of coke were made from a r verside wharf to a Sout Bank industrial complex and 82 per cent wcr overloaded.
The report also argues tha enforcement is cost effective It says: "The costs of makiq good the damage caused h overladen lorries dwarfs th cost of enforcement."
If the estimated two pc cent of commercial vehicle which are at least 1() per cen overloaded were stoppped three per cent of measure' road damage would b avoided at a saving o V720,0110 each year on count: roads it says.