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blgety shows concern
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()5. Three overloading convictions and a tachograph offence led to
lgety Foods appearing bee North Eastern Deputy :ensing Authority H Anthony thardson last week when it )lied for a licence following takeover of Goldenlay Eggs. The company, trading as ans Farms, had sought a w international licence for 40 hides and five trailers, based depots at Drighlington and ishington. Richardson said fact that the convictions icemed vehicles based oute the North Eastern Traffic ea were irrelevant.
For the company, David Hol d said a licence was sought exactly the same terms as .. one held by Goldenlay. lile any conviction was seus. viewing the operation as vhole, said Holroyd, the con:tions were few and far beeen. The four offences had en recorded in a five-year nod. Also, they related to the operation nationally — Dalgety operates some 80 vehicles from nine depots. Drivers were given detailed instructions about avoiding overloading, and a reminder was placed in each cab.
Transport and distribution manager James Dean said that the company mainly operated 16-17-tonne vehicles, but its policy now was to buy 23tonners with a larger capacity to avoid overloading. They were the same size of vehicle with a lift-up back axle, and so far six had joined the fleet. Eggs were collected from farms on a daily basis. Eggs from young birds were lighter than those from older birds. The loads were not weighed on the farm, but when they were brought back to the distribution centre.
In the past, when drivers had been collecting from as many as six farms where the ages of the birds differed, it had been difficult to judge the weight. Each overloading conviction related to an excess of just over 5%.
Dean said that every two or three years the company's drivers were taken off the road for a full day's training, in conjunction with their line manager, as a refresher.
Granting the licence, Richardson said that one tachograph conviction, and only one, did not seem to indicate that the company were lax in that direction. Dalgety was clearly very concerned about matters such as overloading. It had taken steps in the past, and intended to take steps in the future, to make their drivers fully aware of the position.