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HARWICH CRACKDOWN

18th November 1993
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by Juliet Parish More than half the 188 British truck drivers stopped in a five-day Trading Standards enforcement blitz last week at the port of Harwich were overloaded.

And more than a quarter of those overloaded were prohibited for having loads exceeding 5% over the legal limit.

Essex County Council officers found the figures so alarming that they plan to hold at least two week-long overloading checks each year. Out of 395 trucks they weighed, 161 were overloaded and 94 were prohibited. Of those prohibited 51 were UK drivers and 39 were Dutch.

Only three cases are being put forward for prosecution—they are British drivers who were carrying loads more than 10% over the weight allowed on Britain's roads.

But David Doy who led the day and night check, says prosecution is of secondary importance: "We want to educate drivers to use the weighing machine when we are not here. A lot of them are picking up foreign trailers and they have no idea of the load's weight," he says.

• The Vehicle Inspectorate is reviewing the way in which it takes cases forward for prosecution in an attempt to secure consistent policy throughout the country.

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