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Overload costs driver and employer dear
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A GROSS OVERLOAD on a 10-tonne rigid vehicle has cost a Deeside company and one of its drivers 11,465 in lines and costs.
Edge Transport and part-time driver Alexander Lloyd each admitted the offence before the Wrexham Magistrates.
Magistrates were told that the vehicle, driven by Lloyd. and carrying groupage, was stopped in a check on the A494 at Ewloe, Flintshire, last July.
The truck was weighed and found to be overloaded.
The maximum permitted gross weight of 10,000kg was exceeded by 4,620kg. an overload of some 46.2%. The maximum permitted weight of the second axle of 6,800kg was exceeded by 2,890kg, some 42.5%, and the maximum permitted weight of the first axle of 3,800kg was exceeded by 1,130kg, an overload of 29.74%.
Lloyd told the traffic examiner that he worked part-time for Edge Transport. When asked whether Of not he was working for any other employer that day, he replied that Edge Transport had booked him so he had to work for them.
He was also asked if he had supervised the loading of the vehicle. Lloyd replied: "I stood outside while they were loading it up until it rained, than I went and sat in the cab."
The company was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £225 prosecution costs.
Lloyd was fined £120 and ordered to pay £120 towards the costs of the prosecution.