UNFAIR TRADING
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• I have been a reader of your magazine for the past five years. In that time I have constantly read about HGV drivers being stopped by the Officer of Fair Trading for being over-weight.
I think it is about time that the Ministry of Transport made manufacturers fit weighing devices so that no trucks can be over-weight. This would give the Officer of Fair Trading something else to do and take money off some other poor soul instead of HGV drivers and owners.
As regards the Ministry list of bridges for weight. I hope the Ministry does something about one of our best bridges in this country, ie the Tower Bridge which is weighted for a maximum weight of five tonnes. But the Corporation of London closes its eyes when London Transport puts its double decker buses over this bridge. As you must know, a bus weighs approximately eight tonnes when empty and also sight-seeing coaches which must weigh 12 tonnes when they are fully loaded.
If you would like to check
this, please go to Tower Bridge and see for yourself but the Ministry still goes on stopping trucks for being overweight. I suppose it can get more money out of the HGV driver. A. J. Morris Morris Metals Waste Disposal London SE5