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Light horsebox blues
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TWO HORSES WEIGHING enough to grossly overload a 7.5-tonne horsebox landed the driver in court where he was handed a six-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay .£70 costs.
Leyland magistrates were told that Michael Rowland of Warrington was driving a vehicle supplied by Trevor Grimes, trading as Chaigley Horseboxes. Rowland was awaiting delivery of a new horsebox from Grimes, who had lent him the 7.5-tonner as a courtesy vehicle after a lengthy delay in supplying the new unit. However,the borrowed vehicle was owned by one of Grimes' customers who had not given permission for its use.
The court heard that when the horsebox was stopped in a check and weighed there was a gross overload of 1,100kg, some 14.7%. Prosecuting for VOSA, John Heaton said this was a serious overload and Rowland ought to have known from the way the vehicle was behaving that it was overloaded. There were safety implications,not least because two horses were being carried.
Rowland said the current edition of Horse & Hound included 39 non-HGV horseboxes which were advertised for carrying horses and suggested that VOSA should investigate them. In his view the building of 7.5-tonne horseboxes was -a scam" because it allowed holders of ordinary driving licences to drive horseboxes which were likely lobe overloaded.