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Pugh warns Consolidated Land over overloading
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• No action was taken against the South Wales licence of Consolidated Land Services when the company appeared at disciplinary proceedings before South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh at a Cardiff public inquiry.
The Scunthorpe-based company has a depot in Porthcawl; the LA was concerned about a conviction for overloading and the imposition of a prohibition notice on one of its vehicles.
For the company, Norman Lloyd Edwards said the conviction concerned an axle overload and was a result of the load not being placed in the correct position on the trailer, leading to incorrect distribution of weight over the axles.
Since the conviction five trailers of the type concerned had been disposed of to prevent any recurrence of the problem.
Turning to the prohibition notice — for a tyre with insufficient tread depth and a loose wheel-nut — Lloyd Edwards said the drivers had been instruced to carry out daily checks on their vehicles and the driver concerned had been reprimanded.
Porthcawl transport manager Jeffrey Protheroe said that the trailers now in use by the company were designed to carry a greater weight.
In addition, instructions had been issued to drivers to check-weigh their vehicles.
Mervyn Pugh advised the company to provide its drivers with simple duplicate books in which to record defects. He said that he was sorry to see the company before him and if it appeared again, something distressing might happen.