No more overloads warns LA
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• Though granting Brick Delivery Services an increase in the number of vehicles and trailers authorised on its licence, West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has warned that further overloading convictions would result in them being taken away and put its existing fleet at risk.
The company had applied to increase its licence authority from 15 vehicles and trailers to 25 vehicles and 20 trailers, and to move its operating centre from Kidsgrove to Newcastleunder-Lyme.
In July, fines imposed on the company and three of its drivers, for overloading offences, were reduced from £3,770 to £2,475 on appeal to Stoke-on Trent Crown Lout.
Director Mark Cooper told the LA that a single axle weighing device was being installed in the company's new premises at a cost of 210,000.
Cooper said there were no weighbridges at the brickworks and they were dependant upon a computerised calculation of the weights by Steetley. Following a check in October, when three out of four of the company's vehicles were found to be overloaded, Steetley agreed to reduce the number of bricks carried per vehicle from 10,000 to 9,000.
Cooper said the company's drivers had been instructed to check weigh all return loads.
In granting the application Mervyn Pugh warned that he would not tolerate operators who persistently offended.