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Axle overload costs haulier £550
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A FIRST AXLE overload has cost a Baldock, Hertfordshire, company and one of its drivers /550 in lines and costs.
HWilliams & Sons,of High Street,Baldock, Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty to the offence before the Barking Magistrates and was fined 1300 and ordered to pay £100 prosecution costs. The driver, John Patrick Doherty, of Skipton Close, Stevenage, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £50 costs.
Prosecuting for VOSA, Anthony Ostrin said that a Scania four-wded rigid vehicle was stopped in a weight check and the first axle was found to be overloaded.The permitted weight of the first axle of 6,500kg was exceeded by 730kg,more than an 11% overload. For both the company and the driver. Andrew Woolfall said that it had its own weighbridge but it could not weigh individual axles.He stressed it was not a gross overweight and argued that both company and driver had done everything possible to avoid committing an offence.