More weighbridges Off-the-shelf and less body kits overloading

22nd September 1972, Page 346

22nd September 1972

Page 346

Page 346, 22nd September 1972 — More weighbridges Off-the-shelf and less body kits overloading

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• A reduction in incidents of gross overloading from 60 per cent before the implementation of the Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act 1972 to 25 per cent now among vehicles passing through ports in the South Eastern traffic area was claimed by the clerk to the South Eastern Licensing Authority, Mr C. Holt, this week.

Mr Holt was taking part in a discussion with members of Folkestone's Chamber of Trade after they had expressed their concern at the number of heavy vehicles passing through Folkestone, and particularly after a number of accidents on the notorious 1-in-7 Dover Hill.

The meeting was told of the new powers of the DoE to impound foreign vehicles which did not satisfy British regulations and Mr Holt said that a portable axle weigher was already in operation at Southampton and Folkestone was to have a permanent weighbridge. Additional portable axle weighers were to be provided at lay-by sites on A2 and A20 trunk roads.

Members of the Chamber were particularly critical of British Railways ferries because they were concerned only with the overall dimensions of the vehicles they carried and not with the weight. • Under a scheme initiated by the British Aluminium Co Ltd a tipper operator will in future be able to phone a bodybuilder as soon as he knows that chassis are to be delivered and arrange then and there for bodies to be built, knowing that the body kits are available from stock from Baco Stockholders Services Ltd. Two such bodies have figured on the BA stand at Earls Court, the WE U-frame model of 20 Cu yd capacity and the WS type with rectangular profile and conventional side pillars.