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Wide loads were outside permitted hours
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BARKING MAGISTRATES have ordered a Grays, Essex-based company to pay 11,200 in fines and costs for using two vehicles with over-width loads.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for Vosa, said that when a low-loader operated by McMahon Plant Services was checked by traffic examiner David King he found that the load exceeded the legal width limit of 2.9m. The company did have a police permit authorising the use of the vehicle with a wide load but this only applied during specified hours. When it was stopped at 8am the vehicle was being driven outside those permitted hours.
When another vehicle operated by the company was stopped in a roadside check, traffic examiner Stewart Balmer found the same offence. On this occasion there was no permit in force for that part of the journey, although there was one for the return journey.
Once again the vehicle was being driven during the morning rush hour when a police permit would not have been given.
For the company, it was said that on both occasions it had the paperwork to do the job but the drivers had arrived late. It considered the matter to be beyond its control.
The magistrates fined the company £400 for each offence with £400 costs.