Whorton deared on weight
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• No action was taken again B R Whorton Transport for overloading convictions when the company appeared before West Midlands Licencing authority, John Mervin Pugh.
The company holds a licence for 40 vehicles and six trailers, and the LA was told that it had been con victed of eight offences in five years.
For Whorton, Michael Carless said that drivers' responsibilities, particularly with regard to overloading, were pointed out forcibly to them when they joined the company.
Whorton was one of the first companies to start dynamic weighing of machines in its yard, and it was hoped that this move, together with increased pressure on the drivers, would alleviate the problem.
The company's vehicles were stopped for weight checks about 2(X) times a year, and he would like to see drivers given something that recorded the fact that the vehicle had been found to he within the permitted limits.
Mervin Pugh commented that this was certainly something he would be prepared to look into.
Managing director Ryan Whorton said that a lot of the overloading problems arose when vehicles were loaded by customers — some drivers just did not follow instructions to check weigh if in doubt.
Mervin Pugh took no action on the grounds that it would be unfair to curtail
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1 e duration of a licence that expires at the end of 1988. He did say that if the company went on getting convictions it was going to get to the stage where its licence was in jeopardy. It had to get it through to its drivers that if the licence was in jeopardy, the jobs were in jeopardy.
Carless said there were also outstanding matters relating to tachograph offences against the company. Whorton replied that these were very minor offences, and Mervin Pugh commented that he did not want to know about any offences prior to the public enquiry.
0 South Staffordshire Freight Services, of which Whorton is also managing director, was granted a new international licence for ten vehicles and two trailers, expiring on the same date. The LA was told that the company stored goods coming in from the Continent and wished to use its own vehicles on these jobs.