Operators encouraged to become informers
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• Hauliers are being urged to inform on anyone running an overweight truck.
North Yorkshire's trading standards officer Robin Mair says that other businessmen, such as video tape merchants, are much quicker to report unfair trading: "But 1 can't think of a single complaint by a road transport operator," he says.
North Yorkshire stopped 9,300 trucks in the year to the end of March 1991, resulting in 200 successful prosecutions.
At a meeting of Owner Operators UK in Wakefield last week, Mair called for law-abiding hauliers to tell their local authorities if they suspect other operators are regularly running vehicles overweight. He said that if officers can establish a pattern they can catch the culprits and issue court summonses.
El Six foreign truck drivers have been fined a total of £2,320 for overloading and hours offences at Grays magistrates following a crackdown by Essex police two weeks ago.
A total of 44 lorries foreign were stopped in the check.