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Pavement fines soon?

21st February 1981
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OPERATORS could be fined up to £200 on suspicion that they might cause damage to a pavement, if private legislation being sought by Cumbria County Council becomes law.

The Cumbria Bill includes clauses which would make it an offence if the way in which a lorry is being unloaded could cause damage to a pavement. Either a driver, driver's mate, or, in some cases, the owner of premises at which goods are being unloaded, could be fined.

According to the Freight Transport Association, which is strongly opposed to the Bill in its present form, Cumbria is concerned in particular about controlling brewers' lorries, and casks being dropped from the sides of lorries outside pubs.

But an FTA spokesman pointed out that damage is not necessarily caused by inconsiderate draymen. He said that a pavement may already be broken or laid at an uneven angle, and that is was unfair in such cases for the driver to be held to blame.

He said that the FTA is trying to arrange a meeting with Cumbria to try to have the offending clauses altered.


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