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Det it right LA warns forks beet hauliers
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arms of Mick Percy, near ocklington, appeared before DLA, following a number f overloading convictions. Tie lid there had been a large umber of complaints concering overloading of vehicles mying sugar beet.
Several operators had appired before him, but he had Lken a lenient course and ken no action other than to sue a warning. He did not ropose to treat Huxtable arms any differently.
But action would now be ken against the licences of ie operators concerned if Lere were any overloading offences during the new sugar beet harvest, which was about to start.
For the firm, John Taylor said they had been carrying sugar beet since 1949 and there were no problems until a new vehicle was bought in 1977. The difficulty with sugar beet was that it was loaded in the field, and its weight varied considerably depending on the weather and the type of soil. The weight of a load was a question of educated guesswork on the part of the driver.
Edmund Huxtable, a partner, said the vehicle concerned had an extra-long body and was extremely difficult to load within the permitted weight.
The vehicle has since been replaced with an articulated outfit and the high-side "greedy" boards removed from the trailer. The vehicle had been stopped and checkweighed many times since without any problem.
Mr Huxtable agreed that there were two weighbridges on the route to the sugar beet factory in York, but asked "What do you do with any excess found, throw it off on the road?"