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Firm thought weight limits didn't apply
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KNEBWORTH, HERTS-based Easy Mix Concrete has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling.£2,500 for using an overloaded vehicle.
The company admitted the offence when it appeared before the Hertford magistrates.
Prosecuting for Vosa, Anthony Ostrin told the magistrates that a 32-tonne, four-axle Scania rigid belonging to the company and laden with sand and cement was stopped on a journey between South Mimms and Ditchworth.
The vehicle was weighed and the maximum permitted gross weight of 32,000kg was found to have been exceeded by 6,960kg— an overload of 22%.
Appearing for the company, Philip Labrum said the vehicle was taxed as a specialist plant vehicle and the company had believed this meant it was exempt from the maximum weight regulations.
However he was unable to show the court any such exemption and the company was therefore obliged to plead guilty.
The magistrates fined Easy Mix Concrete £1,500 with £1,000 costs.