Truck blitz at Dover
2nd May 1991, Page 8
2nd May 1991
Page 8
Page 8, 2nd May 1991
— Truck blitz at Dover
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• A 48-hour crackdown on 1,800 trucks and coaches leaving Dover last week ended with 60 operators and drivers receiving summonses for overloading.
A total of 15 foreign drivers appeared before Dover magistrates following the check; all of them were fined.
Among the vehicles stopped was a French coach carrying schoolchildren whose driver had been on the road almost continuously for 19 hours, say police.
The check, which lasted from 06:00hrs on 21 April to 06:00hrs on 23 April, took place on Jubilee Way and the A20 Town Wall Street. "It meant nobody could get out of Dover without us seeing them," says a police spokesman.