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Excessive weight prosecutions
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• The plight of lorry drivers who found difficulty in understanding the new tare and weight regulations governing lorry loads was mentioned by Mr. F. Borchert, prosecuting for the Ministry of Transport at Pocklington, East Riding, last week. He said: "I can hardly follow them myself and one can understand why a lorry driver does not fully appreciate them."
Mr. Alex Shand, of Queensway, Goole, who was stopped in Pocklington by an MoT vehicle examiner, admitted using a lorry with a weight in excess of 32 tons. He received a 12-month conditional discharge and so did L. A. Reed (Haulage) Ltd. of Swinefleet, Goole after pleading guilty to permitting use of the lorry driven by him. Mr. Shand said he had nothing to gain from exceeding the weight; the trouble was our weights did not correspond with those on the. Continent and lorry drivers had to take a gamble. He went on: -We have to take the containers as delivered at the docks, and until the Continental weights coincide with those in this country, this will go on."
In another case Mr, J. Taylor, defending Mr. Thomas Edmonds of the Caravan, Dun swell Lane, Hull, who admitted driving a lorry with gross weight exceeding 20 tons, said: "I am afraid we shall have more and more of these cases while drivers are having to accept container loads from roll-on /roll-off ferries at Hull." Mr. Edmonds was given a 12-month conditional discharge, Mr. Stanley Williams of Reldene Drive, Willerby Road, Hull, who admitted driving a lorry with the load exceeding a gross weight of 14 tons, was also given a conditional discharge.