JH overload fine
17th August 1989, Page 22
17th August 1989
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• Prestatyn magistrates fined St Helens-based Jennings Haulage 2500 for a 3% overload. The driver of the vehicle concerned, Stephen Williams, was given an absolute discharge.
The company and Williams had denied exceeding the train weight of a 38tonne artic carrying breeze blocks from Wrexham last December.
Evidence was given that when the vehicle was stopped in a weight check at Rhuddlan on 7 December, i was found to weigh 39,470kg, an overload of some 3%.
Defending, John Backhouse argued that the company's vehicles carried up t 800 such loads each week and regular spot checks hat never previously revealed any weight in excess of 38 tonnes.
The magistrates fined tit+ company 2400 and ordered it to pay 2100 costs.