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Position caused overload

11th May 2000, Page 10
11th May 2000
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• A Staffordshire firm and its director-driver were fined a total of £575 at Solihull Magistrates Court last week for overloading.

Ashgate Foundry Products of The Green, Stafford, was fined £240 with 285 costs after admitting overloading a 7.5-tonner.

Driver Roger Mattox, who is one of the firm's directors, was fined £1£10 with £70 costs after admitting a similar offence.

Dominic Green, prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, said the lorry was stopped off the M5 at Quinton, near Birmingham, in February as it travelled from Bromsgrove to Blackheath, near Dudley, car rying aluminium ingots.

The truck was found to be overloaded on the first axle by just 350kg, he said. Mattox said in a letter to the court that he had since discovered that if he had repositioned the ingots by just a few inches the overloading would not have been recorded.

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