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Magistrates deal with overloading Danes
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• Two Danish drivers arrested and detained by police for driving their vehicles while under prohibition notices for overloading were dealt with by Great Yarmouth magistrates last week.
Driver Leon Holm was fined £50 after pleading guilty through an interpreter.
Traffic examiner Mr Gilbert Alderton told the court that Holm's drawbar unit had been weighed on arrival at Great Yarmouth from Esjberg and was found to be 3 tons lOcwt overnight. An immediate prohibition was issued and the driver fully acquainted with the regulations and penalties for proceeding without offloading to 32 tons. It was later discovered that the driver had driven to Grantham and Halifax still fully laden and he was arrested by police on his return to Yarmouth with a return load.
Mr Alderton added that the return load was overweight by 2 tons 8cwt and the vehicle was again prohibited.
Mr Holm, who had been in custody for 36 hours, told the court that he was sorry for the offence. The magistrates said there would be a penalty of one month's imprisonment in default of payment of the tine. The second driver, Peter Mathiasen, who pleaded not guilty to the same offence was fined £5 and prosecution costs of £17 were refused when the magistrates said the wording of the prohibition notice suggested that prohibition would exist only as long as the vehicle remained overweight. They held that it was not clear enough for a foreign driver to understand although they accepted that the prohibition had not been removed.
A Northern area traffic examiner, Mr William Patterson, told the court that a vehicle and drawbar trailer said to belong to AGS Transport (Denmark) had been weighed at North Shields and found to be 6 tons lcwt overweight. A prohibition notice was issued but the vehicle had been removed by the driver who was arrested by police when about to embark for Denmark from Great Yarmouth. The driver had been detained overnight.
Through an interpreter, Mr Mathiasen admitted the overload and said he understood he could drive the rigid vehicle freely since this was within the weight restriction. He said he had checked with his Danish owners and had telephoned the Ministry and had been told this was so.