lauliers fined £23,000
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VENTY FIVE South I (urnrside and Lincolnshire Aim have been ordered to y over 1:23,000 in lines and its by Barton-on-Humber igistrates after they admit! overloading their lorries. Lolin G.R. Booth (Transrt) Ltd of Barton admitted charges of exceeding the in weight and the gross .ting weight in December t year. It was ordered to y .1;5,000 in fines and costs. The company denied six tilar charges at a court iring in October and, :dough the cases were wed, the bench did not c the company until the ter offences were heard.
The magistrates tined the mpany i510 on one charge, 70 on lour other charges, 50 on four further charges 1:440 on another. On the naining charges the bench tined absolute discharge. Costs of i2 0 0 were arded to the prosecution
1:170 to the trading stands department of Humbere County Council.
rhese offences took place ring the coal strike in Jan-y 1985, when the lorries !re carrying coal from tyfields Wharf in Barton to • Rugby Portland Cement irks at South Farriby.
Ferry Eastwood, prosecut said a trading standards leer examined weighbridge cuments which showed at sonic vehicles were :rweight.
.1epresenting the company, aart Atkinson said the prosecution had claimed the Company should have used Pinnock Farm weighbridge that was nearer to the wharf, but he submitted hundreds of lorries had to be weighed in a short time and this weighbridge was neither capable of dealing with the volume of vehicles nor suitable because it was inaccurate when vehicles had to be double weighed.
"If the lorries had gone through Barton to Pinnock Farms they would then have to go through Barton again to Rugby Portland Cement. It avoided going through the Centre of Barton. lie made the wrong decision and about 200 offences have arisen out of this decision," said Atkinson.
Since the offences, Booth had spent thousands of pounds on equipment which gave sonic indication as to whether the lorry was overweight, he added.
In January, Barton-onHumber magistrates imposed fines and costs totalling 1:11,460 on 15 other companies for operating overladen vehicles.
In each case, the offences were committed at Killingholme where vehicles were weighed while transporting iron ore from Immingham docks to the steelworks at Scunthorpe in the aftermath of the miners' strike.
Nine other haulage contractors were prosecuted in February for a total of 88 offences, which were also committed just after the miner's strike ended in May and June.
They were fined and ordered to pay costs totalling 16,790.