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Overload appeal fails
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THE TRANSPORT Tribunal threw Midlands' Licensing Authority last As a result, from next Monday, R. A. and P. R. Troughton Transport, from Hereford, has three of its eight vehicles suspended for three months.
The company's solicitor, Michael Carless, told the Tribunal in London that from 1974 (when the partnership was set out an appeal against the West week.
up) until 1982, there had been a clean record.
The first conviction had been imposed in 1982 on a return load of lime, when the front and rear axles were overloaded — but the vehicle was not overloaded gross. He added that the partnership's outward traffic is solely paper, and that there was only trouble with return traffic. However, after this offence the LA had sent a warning letter to the partnership. The other two offences occurred within two days of each other last December. Again the overloading came on the return journeys.
Mr Carless argued although there was "no defence to overloading", he felt that "the partnership was morally guiltless, as the drivers went to a return load point and were overloaded."