Weighing beats the bucket test
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• Residue building up inside a tipper because the driver had neglected to clean out the body was blamed for an overloading offence when Liverpool-based AS Haulage appeared before Huyton Magistrates.
Disconson Metal Trading, of Wavertree, trading as AS Haulage, and its driver, Anthony Bishop, admitted overloading a rigid tipper which was carrying clay by 11.4°0.
An allegation that the permitted rear axle weight had also been exceeded was dropped by the prosecution, Defending, Andrew Woolfall said that there was no weighbridge at the quarry, where the tipper was loaded, or at the
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premises of Ibstock Brickworks, where the clay was being taken.
To try to prevent overloading problems the company had made test runs at the start of the contract to see how many bucket loads of clay could lawfully be carried, said Woolfall.
Bishop had been driving the vehicle that week and through inexperience he had failed to clean out the body after every trip. Woolfall maintained, allowing a residue to build up that had caused the overload, The company was fined E750 with £65 costs; Bishop was fined £150 with £35 costs.