Foreign overloaders total 1200 in ten months
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• About 1200 foreign commercial vehicles out of 6000 examined in the 10 months up to June were found to be overweight on entering this country.
Reporting this in the Upper House, Government spokesman Lord Mowbray and Stourton added that 800 vehicles had been compelled to off-load immediately.
He noted that 17 were mechanically defective, 58 had no permit or short-term operators' licence, and 79 contravened the hours and records regulations. Two drivers ignored prohibitions issued to them, were arrested, prosecuted and fined.
Lord de Clifford, who had raised the topic, wanted to know whether one company was involved in these offences, and was told that this was a matter the Government was looking at.
One company had had six or seven particularly bad offences of overloading and a complaint had been made to the French Government. The French had now said they would issue no more permits to that company to come to this country,