A concrete overload
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SHROPSHIRE trading standards officers who weighed a lorry carrying concrete found it was overloaded by more than 70 per cent — and there was a 113 per cent overload on one axle, a court was told.
The driver of the lorry and the firm which owned it both admitted carrying a dangerous load.
Driver David Alan Price of Castlefields, Shrewsbury, was fined £30 and the firm, DME Contractors of Oswestry, Shropshire, was fined £60 and ordered to pay £30 costs.
Solicitors representing the driver and company told magistrates at Wellington that the scales used to weigh the concrete put on to the lorry had been faulty but were later rectified. _ The load of liquid cement was also found to be too liquid when it was on the lorry, so more sand was added.
David Roberts, for the trading standards department, said the gross vehicle weight allowed was 2,600kg, but it weighed 4,520kg. The maximum axle load should have been 1,530kg but it weighed 3,260kg, an overload of 113.1 per cent.