1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168 
Overloads cost Birch over 116k
Page 24
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Overloading offences and failure to display an MoT plate have cost a Manchester company and one of Its drivers a total of £16,300 in fines and costs.
Birch Skip Hire and driver John Hughes each pleaded guilty to 35 offences of exceeding the permitted gross weight of a 32-tonne tipper, and one of failing to display an MoT plate when they appeared before Wigan Magistrates. The company was fined £300 per offence and Hughes £150 per offence and each ordered to pay £50 towards the costs of the prosecution.
Prosecuting, Alan Bakkar said that, in August, a tipper driven by Hughes was stopped on the East Lancashire Road. Astley, by PC Grahame Robinson. The vehicle was laden with subsoil and waste and was directed to a weighbridge at the premises of Kennedy Asphalt. The gross weight was 33,320kg, an overload of some 1.320kg. When the offence was pointed out to Hughes, he had replied: It's just an average load". No Ministry plate was displayed on the vehicle at the time.
Subsequent enquiries at the Whitehead Landfill site revealed numerous other occasions when the vehicle had been overloaded, said Bakkar. Of the 36 weighbridge tickets obtained from the owners of the site, 34 showed occasions when the vehicle had been grossly overloaded.