'Whopping' overloads
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• North Eastern Traffic Commi ssioner Keith Waterworth has warned Dewsbury-based ICS (Northern) that further overloading could cost the company its licence.
After the TC referred to eight overloading convictions, John Dyne, for the company, said they related to two incidents which led to prosecutions on each axle against the company and its driver. He said 7.5-tonne reefers could not carry very much.
The TC said a 40% gross overload and a 33% axle overload were "whopping great overloads" which almost made the vehicle unmanageable, It appeared to be a case of deliberately overloading a vehicle for profit. Overloading was an industry problem industry and he was not going to have it in the North Eastern area. Company secretary Ismail Bhamji said the company had bought a 24-tonne vehicle and had the use of a weighbridge. Waterworth said that if its vehicles were found to be overloaded again he would have to consider whether the company should keep its licence. He suspended one of the company's five vehicles for one month, and said a 40% overload could not be justified.