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Pickfords gets discharge

23rd November 1985
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PICK FORDS Heavy I laulage was given an absolute discharge by Middlesbrough in after admitting overloading a vehicle operating under the special types provisions.

The Coln pany admitted a train weight overload of 13,262kg, 34.9 per cent.

For the prosecution, it was said that the load concerned was one of 20 that had been notified and which the company was moving between Vauxhall Motors at Luton and Teesside.

The route of the load was changed without notification and the result of that was that the company was no longer covered by the special types exemptions and fell subject to the weight limits contained in the Construction and Use reguladons.

For the company. John Back house said that PickfOrds had been asked to divert the load at the last minute to premises in Billingham, owing to problems at the customer's destination.

The load had followed the notified route for all but the last five miles of its Journeā– ,. The vehicle concerned had a special types plated weight of 65 tonnes so no danger was caused and all the company was. really guilty of was failing to make phone call.