Artic was double weighed
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A SUBMISSION that the double-weighing of an articulated lorry by the DOE was Inaccurate, failed last week before Selby, Yorkshire, magistrates.
Joseph Nugent (Brock) Ltd, Claughton-on-Brock, Lanes, and the driver, Thomas Nugent, were prosecuted by the Yorkshire LA for using a vehicle with an overload in excess of 2 tons. The magistrates fined the company £50 with £20 costs and the driver £20.
Mr K. P. Williams, a traffic examiner, said the vehicle was stopped on M62 because it appeared to be overloaded. When weighed the gross was 34 tons 5cwt 3gr.
Cross-examined, he agreed the vehicle had the mechanical capacity for carrying a load in excess of the plated weight; it had appeared to him to be overweight because of the compression of the tyres.
The vehicle was weighed on a weighbridge 30ft long, by driving the tractive unit on without uncoupling and then drawing the outfit forward so that the rear axle was on the bridge.
The driver, Mr Thomas Nugent, a director, said the load consisted of tinned fruit. The delivery note showed 840 cartons of sliced peaches.
Mr Joseph Nugent, managing director, said he had made a calculation, using a sample carton of the fruit, and the total weight of the load was slightly in excess of 20 tons; the unladen weight was I01 tons and it was not possible for the vehicle to be overloaded.