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Staffs haulage licence
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cut after overloads
CONVICTIONS on overloading and other offences led to seven vehicles and two trailers being cut from Stan Robinson (Stafford) Ltd's operator's licence last week.
West Midland Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson also suspended one of the 23 specified vehicles for a period of three months.
Managing director Stanley Robinson said that an offence of unauthorised use at Glastonbury followed the purchase of a secondhand vehicle. That vehicle had been used only for a day when the engine blew up.
It was then off the road for about six weeks and he forgot to put it on the licence when it was repaired.
Convictions for using a vehicle without plating and test certificates arose when a vehicle lost its plate and disc in the course of a run to Scotland.
Convictions for gross and second axle overloads occurred when the tractive unit of an articulated outfit was over by about 500kg. The complete outfit still weighed less than 32.5 tonnes and the load had just been placed too far forward.
Robinson admitted that the company had received a warning letter following overloading offences in 1984, and had bought three new six-wheelers to reduce the risk of overloading.
Much of' the work involved multiple deliveries and relied on drivers loading the vehicles properly.
They could carry anything from whisky to insulation. Whisky was loaded by the case and differences in the size of the bottles could throw the weight out by 25 per cent.
Jackson said he could not overlook the March 1984 warnings about overloading offences. That had been quite clear, yet he was now faced with further offences.
He hoped that Robinson would take the situation very seriously and make sure that there were no further offences of this nature. Robinson was neither a new nor a small haulier.
These things should not happen. That was what professionalism was all about.