Getting heavy • Shropshire County Council is stepping up checks
25th July 1991, Page 8
25th July 1991
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on overloaded trucks. It now has two trading standards officers working full time on enforcement and in the year to March they weighed more than 2,500 vehicles of which over 763 were overladen. More than 70 hauliers and 53 drivers were prosecuted and fines and costs of £40,000 imposed.
Home movie • Angry villagers in Old Costessey, Norfolk say they have filmed truck drivers mounting the pavement of a narrow street outside their houses used as a short cut. They vow to stand on the road to block the lorries.
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