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• Shipping and forwarding agent Reed and Sutcliffe of Boston has been fined £350 with £50 costs by the Sleaford, Lincolnshire Magistrates for causing three overloading offences.
The offences were admitted by the company in prosecutions brought by the Traffic Area. In the first case haulage contractor Frederick Kirk admitted train and axle overloads while pulling a Reed and Sutcliffe trailer which had been loaded and allocated to the driver by Reed and Sutcliffe, Both Kirk and Reed and Sutcliffe, were fined £275 with ..50 costs.
In the second case, involving a vehicle stopped in the same weight check one hour later, haulier Herbert Hardy admitted an actual overload, and Reed and Sutcliffe admitted causing the offences in similar circumstances. Hardy and the company were each fined £75 with £25 costs.
Reed and Sutcliffe said that the case involved an older type of trailer which, although plated at 38 tonnes, could not carry a full payload because of the axle spacing. In the Hardy case, the wrong type of trailer had been used for the load concerned.