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Overloaders penalized by Scottish LA

29th December 1972
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• Overloaded vehicles were a menace on the road and a major cause of accidents, Mr H. R. Aylmer, the Scottish deputy LA, said in Aberdeen, recently.

Banning two firms, from Aberdeen and Fraserburgh, from using one of their vehicles for a month for overloading offences, he said that such offences were looked on very seriously by the Authority. The firms concerned were Aberdeen Service Company (North Sea) Ltd., and G. and J. Jack Ltd, fish merchants, Fraserburgh. The Aberdeen company which admitted two offences of overloading also had its allocation of nine vehicles and six trailers cut to seven and four respectively, the number used at present.

Mr I. M, S. Park, for the firm, said that instructions had now been given to company employees that the overloading of vehicles would lead to dismissal. In the first case the driver had felt his load of gas cylinders was not over weight and in his two-mile journey at Aberdeen Dock the

nearest weighbridge was within 200 yards of his destination.

In the second case a load of sacks of chemicals in which the sacks were of differing weights was being taken between warehouses. The wheels, said Mr Park, were touching the bodywork and the firm's officials were -absolutely horrified" when told about the offence.

The penalty against the Fraserburgh firm followed an offence of overloading fish on a lorry on a journey from Peterhead to Hull in June. Mr A. P. Brown, for the firm, told the court that the judgment was "a very severe penalty for a small firm with an unblemished record." He said that the company operated four vehicles to carry fish all over Britain and this was its first offence in 26 years' trading. It had happened when the firm bought fish at Peterhead where the fish was sold in boxes. At Fraserburgh it was sold by the stone and this had caused the offence.

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