Irish move ( weighbridg
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THE LEGALITY of one of land's dynamic a weighbridges on the main ( Dublin road near Fermoy questioned at a local di; court recently when a I number of Irish hauliers i summoned by traffic corps dai (police) for carrying than the permitted maximui den weight.
Solicitor Declan Carroll, was acting for some of th( fendants, contended that weights given in evidence not recorded when the veil were stationary at weighbridge but while they• moving at two miles per hot less.
Inspector Tom Walc claimed that there was nol in the regulations requi vehicles to be stationary being weighed.
Technical prosecution dence revealed that tests when the weighbridge was missioned indicated that thi culated mobile vehicle we were the same as the static weights, with slight tole variations.
Jim Baylor, who also peered for some of the hau submitted that a logical e sion of the prosecution ment would mean that a VE which left an accident at ; or less would still be deem be stationary.
Justice B.J. Carroll rej the defendant's plea and f the hauliers guilty.
There are two dynt weighbridges in the Irish 13( lic, both of which are opera' the Cork area.