Driver fined • Lancashire owner-driver Victor McGarry was ordered to
30th August 1990, Page 16
30th August 1990
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pay fines and costs totalling £280 by Birkenhead magistrates after admitting eight overloading offences. The offences were discovered when trading standards officers checked weight tickets from the weighbridge at a mill belonging to Spillers.
For McGarry, John Backhouse said eight of the 40 loads of grain he had carried to the mill had been found to be overloaded, by between five and 10%. There had been no facilities for weighing at the collection point in the evening so McGarry had to gauge the weight by eye, which was extremely difficult as the weight of grain varied, To suggest that he should have waited until the following day when a weighbridge would be open to checkweigh was not commercially feasible, said Backhouse.