Fallon finally fined
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A SERIES of offences relating to the operation of a vehicle under the special types provision committed two-and-a-half years ago led to Fallon Haulage of Birstall being fined a total of £90 by the Morley West Yorkshire magistrates.
The company admitted exceeding the permitted secondaxle gross and train weight of the articulated outfit concerned, using a trailer that exceeded 2.5m in width, using a vehicle that exceeded 15m in length, and using a trailer which did not have a manufacturer's plate.
Prosecuting for the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Ruth Freedman said that the vehicle had been carrying two items of civil engineering plant.
When check-weighed at the Gildersome dynamic axle weighbridge, the second axle was found to weigh 12.3 tonnes, an overload of 2.13 tonnes or 21 per cent; the gross weight was 17.85 tonnes, an overload of 1.59 tonnes or nine per cent; and the • train weight was 35.17 tonnes, an overload of 10.78 tonnes, some 44 per cent over the 24tonne limit.
Defending, Stephen Kirkbright said the offences occurred on October 8, 1981 and the prosecution had been "guilty of the most scandalous delay." But for the fact that the case had been adjourned on one occasion last year, at the request of the defence, he would have been asking for the case to be struck out.
The outfit concerned was capable of carrying 50 tonnes, but because the load consisted of two items of plant it was not an indivisible load. Consequently, it failed to comply with the provision of the special types order, thus losing its protection and being thrown back on to the provi sions of the Construction and Use Regulation.
The magistrates fined the company £20 on each of the overloading offences and £10 on each of the other offences.