Econofreight loses weight challenge
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ECONOFREIGHT Train port has lost a challenge I the accuracy of weights four in a weight check at the Bo ton Spa, West Yorkshire ,rb namic axle weighbridge.
When they appeared befoi Weatherby magistrates la: week, the company and ot of its drivers, Stephen Size of Middlesbrough, de.nie overloading the front axle . a VW pick-up truck by 25 per cent or 380K G. magistrates fined the con pany £150 and Sizer ;05 ;11" ordered the company to N 5:50 costs.
Senior traffic examinc Derrick Senior said tlvehicle was plated at 3 tonnes and the front axle Fn. a permitted weight of 1 tonnes. When weighed tl gross weight showed a sligl excess at 3.72 tonnes and tl front axle weighed tonnes.
Cross examined by defer'. counsel Stephen kirkbrigh Senior admitted that he not carried out the full proc. dure laid down in the code I practice for dynamic ax weighers before he started tl weight check.
He said it was unnecessai to do so as the Boston St equipment was switched c permanently.
He maintained that he IL: pressed the low mode switc necessary when weighin vehicles below three tonn. unladen before the vehic was weighed and denied th the driver had applied a vehicle's brakes as he droA over the weighbridge.
Traffic examiner Richat Leighfield said he had it structed the driver to procec at walking pace without bral ing or accelerating.
Sizer said that the vehic had been weighed th previous evening when it w; found to be overloaded an part of the load was taken of Because the tick-over speed the vehicle was high, he ha to drive with his foot on tt brake to keep to the pace ( the driving examiner as I drove over the weigh beam.