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LA warns against gross overloading
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THE PROBLEMS surrounding vehicles entering the country in an overloaded condition, though within Continental weight regulations, were ventilated before the West Midland Licensing Authority, A. A. Crabtree, at Birmingham.
Old-established hauliers, J. R. and G. R. Cadwallader, of Oswestry, were seeking renewal of their licence for 74 vehicles and 100 trailers.
At the outset, Mr Crabtree said there was a long list of prohibitions and convictions against the firm's vehicles, in respect of overloading, and it could not be allowed to go on in that manner.
For Cadwallader, Norman Carless said half their business concerned Continental traffic, particularly the carriage of imported butter.
It was widely known that many vehicles were probably overloaded when they entered the country. Consequently the procedure was that they were immediately weighed and given a formal prohibition.
The firm then arranged for the removal of the excess" weight and the prohibition was then lifted.
An office had recently been opened in Dover to try to ensure that vehicles did not carry excess weights, and there had been no convictions during the past 12 months.
John Cadwallader, a partner, said 11 prohibitions imposed in 1976 and 12 in 1977 arose because the firm was not allowed to tranship loads within dock premises, and vehicles had to leave the docks before excess weight could be removed.
One problem was that drivers took no part in loading on the Continent, as a matter of practice. There had been a recent instance where 82 undeclared cartons of butter were found on one vehicle.
There had been a number of cases of firms evading Customs duties and a number of prosecutions were pending.
Questioned by Mr Crabtree, Mr Cadwallader said there were two prosecutions for overloading pending against the firm.
Renewing the licence with a warning, Mr Crabtree said he was satisfied the firm was doing everything possible it could to prevent overloading.