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Final warning for food distributor
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A FOOD DISTRIBUTOR has been warned it risks losing its licence if there is a repeat of the overloading offences for which its two-vehicle licence was suspended for a fortnight. It was the second time Wolverhampton-based STB Foods has had its licence suspended.
The company was called before West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Fiona Richards after being convicted of a number of overloading offences, and an offence of using more vehicles than authorised on the licence. At a public inquiry in 2003, when overloading was one of the issues, the licence had been suspended for a week.
Director Tarsem Singh said the first overloading offence arose when a new employee put too many pallets on to a 7.5-tonne vehicle. He and his fellow director now ensured every load was correct —they were purchasing pallet trucks that showed the weight of the pallets. The second overloading conviction arose when he forgot to include the weight of four empty pallets in the calculation. They always tried to be well under weight.
After Singh said they thought they had always had two vehicles on the licence, the DTC pointed out that the licence was not increased until October 2005.
He accepted the convictions had not been notified, and letters from the Traffic Area Office had been ignored. He said these issues were now the company's bookkeeper's responsibility. The DTC said she was satisfied the situation had been remedied, albeit late and much later than she would have expected. She warned if there was any repetition, the company would very likely lose its licence.