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Container overloads cause trouble for Solon haulier
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HE MANAGING director E' a Southampton haulage rm last week pointed out Le dangers of accepting a istomer's statement on the (act weight of a container. Mr Eric Baker, managing 'rector of Bakers Transort, told the South Eastern A, Mr G. E. Mercer, that n two separate occasions le company had been conictecl of overloading [fences on vehicles that, ccording to their customers, were carrying containers of the correct weight. The company had its licence curtailed by the reduction of 17 vehicles for a month from the fleet of 52 authorized of which 35 vehicles were specified.
Mr Baker explained that on one occasion the company had received incorrect notification of the weight of a sealed container from Italy and that when the vehicle examiner had inspected the vehicle this fact had been discovered, The vehicle examiner also noticed that the trailer manufacturer had rnisplated the vehicle's trailer.
Bakers Transport had been convicted three times for overloading offences and Mr Baker pointed out that the company had gone to considerable lengths to draw the need for caution not only in vehicle maintenance, but also in respect of over loading, to his employees. The managing director went on to say that the company employed nine maintenance men and a foreman fitter. The company's average annual maintenance bill was £62,000.
The LA said that the serious features had been explained and he accepted that the operator was endeavouring to deal with the problem of overloading.