Beet beat haulier
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• The owner of a Lincolnshire haulage firm which had been summoned on three occasions for overloading was warned at a Section 69 hearing in Peterborough last Friday that she would be "in the direst danger" of losing her licence if summoned again.
Mrs Alice Agnes Gotobed, of West Pinchbeck, Spalding, to whom the warning was delivered, owns the firm which was involved in three cases of overloading — all of sugarbeet — last autumn.
Mrs Gotobed told the deputy LA, Mr G. Kidner, that the two drivers guilty of overloading were not normally sugarbeet drivers; that sugarbeet was a very difficult cargo to weigh; and that some farmers would not use a cleaner provided by her lorries to cut down the beet weight.
Mr John Dale, for Mrs Gotobed, said her business had been run efficiently for 33 years. She undertook to insist in future that her drivers would accept only the the permitted weight and make farmers use the cleaner.