Heavy fine for puzzling overload
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A train weight Prosecuting for the Vehicle overload cost Inspectorate, Tony Ostrin said Romford-based that a Volvo artic belonging to
Assured Movethe company and carrying timments £1,550 in fines and ber had been stopped in a costs when the company roadside check at Dagenham. admitted the offence before Weighing showed the permit
Barking magistrates. ted GTW of 36,000kg was exceeded by 4,090kg, an overload of some 10.75%. Three previous convictions had been recorded against the company for similar problems.
For the company Nicola Harries said that the load collected from the customer had a weight of 22,444kg. When that was added to the unladen weight of the artic the permitted train weight was not exceeded. The company was unable to understand why those figures did not correspond with those found by the VI.