• Cattle dealers H Smith and & Son (Wardle) escaped
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with a warning when they appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North Western Deputy Licensing Authority Kenneth Birchall because of overloading convictions. Birchall renewed the company's licence for five vehicles and three trailers with a warning that he would be less sympathetic if there were any more convictions.
The DLA was told that the company carried only livestock. There had been five overloading convictions between June 1982 and December 1983, with excess train weights of up to 12 tonnes. However, there were no further problems until December 1986, when the company was convicted of axle gross and train weight overloads after a driver had loaded more cattle than instructed.
Managing director Brian Smith said that they now carried a maximum of 42 animals on their double-deck livestock trailers instead of 48.