Nine hauliers fined for overloading
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• Nine transport companies pleaded guilty at Carlisle magistrates' court on Monday, to charges of using vehicles with loads in excess of the permitted maximum weight.
The cases arose from weighing by Ministry of Transport officials at Kingstown Industrial Estate, Carlisle, and six involved the -double weighing" of articulated vehicles.
Mr. George Robson, defending five of the companies, said that in some cases -customer error"—clerical or overloading mistakes by the customer—were the cause of the offences.
Mr. George Worthington, prosecuting in all the cases, said that when the offences were pointed out to the drivers they all said they had no instructions to have the vehicles weighed. Road Services (Forth) Ltd., of Falkirk, were fined £15 with £3 costs. Milhench and Coulthard Ltd., of Kirkcudbright, were fined £10 with £3 costs. Another case against this company was adjourned indefinitely. J. and C. M. Smith (Whiteinch) Ltd., of Glasgow, Frederick Allan Ltd_ of Worcs. and Fred Horne and Sons, of West Auckland, were each fined £10 with £3 costs. Robert King and Sons, of Irvine, Ayrshire, were fined £8 with £2 costs. W. D. Houston and Sons, of Fifeshire. and Mitchell Bros., of Douglas Water, were each fined £12 with £3 costs. J. and W. Watt Ltd, of Carlisle, was fined £15 with £3 costs. Two cases against W. Keith and Sons Ltd, of Grange over Sands, and C. Walker and Sons Ltd, of Blackburn, were adjourned indefinitely.