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AGISTRATES should not cept the argument that axle verloads, unless massive, were question of public safety. here was substantial interational argument about the 3propriate weights, but it was ne concerning damage to yads.
This submission was made ) Chorley magistrates last riday when John Buxton and ouds Buxton trading as uxton Brothers, Shay Lane, Iclustrial Estate, bongridge, reston, appeared on sumionses alleging axle overloadig of a vehicle laden with allast.
Evidence was given that the chicle, a four-wheeled tipper, pas stopped on the Scorton ) Longidge road and taken to weighbridge. The driver said e had been certain the vehicle was within its permitted gross and so did not bother to check the axles on the weighbridge at the quarry loading point.
Arguing there was nothing more the operator could have done, Mr Jahn Lawton said the driver had been warned before the date of the offence that if he overloaded his vehicle he would be dismissed. As a result he was now unemployed. An operator could do no more than give drivers clear notice of what would happen if they overloaded. The defendant could demonstrate this had been done, and although it was an absolute offence the magistrates should consider blameworthiness and • give an absolute discharge.
After adjourning the magistrates announced the partners would be fined £45 each, and the driver 00.