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Trouble for weight guesser
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• Two convictions for overloading led to Pontypool Excavation and Demolition Ltd appearing before the South Wales deputy LA last week.
The first offence occurred in November 1972 when Mr B. C. Matthews, a director of the company, was driving a lorry found to be 14cwt over its permitted gross weight and 7cwt over its axle weight.
The second, in April this year, happened after a fitter had requested that a load be put on one of the vehicles to test the brakes. On that ,occasion, the lorry was overloaded 1 ton 19cwt gross and 1 7ewt overloaded on the axle.
Mr Matthews told the LA that all concerned were warned about overloading and stickers had been placed in the cabs. Where possible they weighed the load but when no weighbridge was available the weight had to be guessed.
The deputy LA, Mr C. Hugh Jones, told Mr Matthews: "I can't take a lenient view when one of the directors in convicted. This does not show a good example."
He suspended one of the company's three vehicles for two months.