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Firm fined £2,000 for operating an overloaded vehicle
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AN OVERLOADED vehicle has cost a Kent company more than £2.000 in fines and costs. Erith Waste Management Services, of Mount Ephraim Road, Tunbridge Wells, pleaded guilty to using a vehicle with an overloaded axle.
Anthony Ostrin. prosecuting for the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), told the Bexley magistrates that when one of the company's two-axle vehicles carrying two skips was stopped in a check the second axle was found to be overloaded by 11%.
Astra Emir, appearing for the company and driver Richard Lambotte, told the court that Lambotte thought he was travelling to the nearest available weighbridge, which he believed was the check-site being operated by VOSA. It was now accepted that there were in fact weighbridges nearer his point of loading.
The company was fined 12.000 with £600 costs: Lambotte, of Eltham in London, was fined £235 with £160 costs.