100,000 overload cases a year 'if police tried'
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• A police campaign to curb the overloading of lorries is being called for by Mr Joseph Ashton, Labour MP for Basset Law.
He is to ask the Home Secretary to call for a report from the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire as to why his force has a higher rate of prosecutions for overloading offences than that of any other county.
"It seems that only Nottinghamshire police are doing their job in this respect," said Mr Ashton. -In each of the four years 1967-1970 this one county alone provided between 13 and 25 per cent of all the convictions achieved, according to the Home Office."
If other police forces did likewise there would be something like 100,000 overloading prosecutions a year instead of the present 5000, he said.
According to the Chief Constable, Nottinghamshire police were "not even trying". -So what can other forces be doing?" Mr Ashton asked.
An important factor in the overloading problem, according to Mr Ashton, is the lack of provision of weighbridges.
The DoE scheme to give local authorities grants to provide weighbridges had not got off the ground, he complained.
• Kysor Industrial (Great Britain) Ltd has moved to larger premises. The new address is Bridge Works, Lloyd Street, Whitworth, near Rochdale, Lancs. (Tel: Whitworth 2373/4).