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Overloading and braking
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offence costs operator £8,351 A SURREY SCAFFOLDING company has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £835 for using a vehicle with excess weight and defective brakes, and for having no 0-licence. Dean Scaffolding. of Horley, pleaded guilty to the offences before Marylebone Magistrates. It was fined a total of £750 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs.
Prosecuting for Vehicle and Operator Services Agency ( VOSA), Anthony Ostrin said a vehicle carrying scaffold boards, tulles and fittings was found lobe overloaded.The maximum permitted gross weight of 7500kg was exceeded by 3,360kg, some 44.8%. No 0-licence identity disc was displayed and on examination it was found that the front brakes were seriously defective. It transpired that the company was not the holder of an operator's licence. The brakes were in an extremely dangerous condition, said Ostrin. Here was a vehicle which was clearly not -safe to be on the road". Director Dean Holmes sai he had only recently acquired the vehicle and, on th day in question, was told it could carry the load. Th brakes had recently been refined and he would nc knowingly put a dangerous vehicle on the road.At th time he had not applied for an operator's licence In had since been granted an interim licence.