Check revealed overloads
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• Ten of the 76 trucks stopped last week at a roadside check on the A74 at Harker Weighbridge, north of Carlisle, were found to be seriously overloaded.
Vehicle examiners moved in on 12 trucks and issued two of them with immediate prohibitions, including one for dangerous brake problems.
Another nine vehicles were given delayed prohibitions.
The 10 overloaded lorries received prohibition notices. Two vehicles were reported for excise offences and four were reported for other offences. Drivers of a further 16 received verbal warnings, North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth, who attended the Harker check, said: "I intend to continue to apply pressure to improve road safety standards in the industry. The behaviour of a small minority continues to pose a threat to improved road safety by letting standards slip."
The next day, at public inquiries, Waterworth formally warned Saville Light Haulage of Skegness, Rainworth Fencing of Mansfield and AJ Hugill of Worksop for parking away from their authorised operating centres, "I am not prepared to tolerate those operators who allow lorries to he parked regularly and indiscriminately around our region's roads and away from approved operating centres,"