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'Consistent offender' granted 5 vehicles, 4 trailers
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• Despite seven cases of overloading and three of unauthorized use, a transport company was on Tuesday granted most of its application for additional vehicles and had no action taken against it under Section 69. Announcing his decision — reached after an adjournment — the Metropolitan LA, Mr D. I. R. Muir, said he was "satisfied that a great deal had been done" to prevent the offences from happening again.
However, he warned the company, A. Truder Transport Co Ltd, that if it appeared before him again it would face a strong chance of having its licence revoked. The company had "been persistently offending against the overloading regulations". Mr Muir described Mrs Pamela Truder, a director and secretary of the company who had given evidence, as a person of very high intelligence. He hoped that that intelligence would in future be directed at compliance with the law. Mr Muir granted an interim licence for four trailers and allowed the addition of five vehicles to the operator's licence. The company had applied for seven vehicles.
The company was involved in carrying bulk loads, chiefly coke and sugar, and had a licence for 18 vehicles and 10 trailers. Mrs Truder explained that the first four convictions for overloading at Sittingboume magistrates' court last October happened even though drivers had been repeatedly warned and notices had been placed in cabs. Three drivers were subsequently dismissed.
After the summons the company had stopped work for the customer. A notice which cost £90 to produce had been placed • in the workshops warning of the dangers to drivers and the company of overloading. Only after assurances had been made that vehicles would not be overloaded by the customer's loading staff had work recommenced in January of this year. On the first day's operation four more summonses were served, work was again halted and the contract was terminated.