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cost Frederick Suckling, trading as J F Suckling & Son, of Guisborough, Cleveland, £400 in fines and costs at Thirsk magistrates.
Suckling pleaded guilty to carrying a dangerous substance without the warning plates.
Prosecuting for the Health & Safety Executive, Keith King said the vehicle, which was carrying forty 200-litre drums of the chemical, was stopped in a routine police check. No warning plates were being displayed. Methanol is highly flammable, volatile and toxic, and the warning plates protect the public, the emergency services and the environment.
If the vehicle was involved in an accident and overturned, the plates would be the first indication that care should be taken Suckling fined for failing to display hazchem sign. because a dangerous substance was being carried.
The USE took a serious view of such an omission, as a failure to display the plates could make incidents far worse.
Suckling said the plates were often on and off the vehicle three or four times a day, as it was an offence to display them if a load was not dangerous.
The bracket for the front plate had become loose and he had taken the plate off.