Overloading Fines at Carlisle • OBSON'S BORDER TRANSPORT, I of Carlisle,
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and the firm's traffic manager, Mr. L. Brown, were each fined f10 at Hexham last week after being convicted of allowing a vehicle to operate at 2 tons 2+ cwt. in excess of its legal weight.
For the Ministry, it was stated that a vehicle carrying basic slag in paper bags from Scunthorpe to Haltwhistle was stopped on October 7 in Hexham and, on being weighed, was found to be overloaded.The driver had been given iastructions by the manager to load 360 bags of slag. When seen by a weights
and measures inspector, Mr. Brown said that they had made a miscalculation in the weight of the bags, being under the impression that they were 100 lb. and not 112 lb.
The driver did not • know that his vehicle was overloaded.
* At a recent Newcastle inquiry, when several hauliers were warned by the Licensing Authority about operating tippers that were overloaded, the chief weights and measures inspector for Northumberland said that the war against overloading in the county was being stepped up.