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A GROSS OVERLOAD has cost a Norfolk operator and one of its drivers £2.665 in fines and costs.
Shouldham,Thorpe-based Carter Haulage and Storage (Norfolk) pleaded guilty to the offence before Bury St Edmunds magistrates and was fined £2,150 with £150 costs.
Driver Michael Godderson. of Downham Market was fined £.215 with £150 costs.
Prosecuting for Suffolk County Council Trading Standards. Narcis Sultan said that a five-axle Volvo carrying a load ol carrots was stopped in a check and weighed. The artic was found to be 3,140kg over its plated weight of 40 tonnes.
Peter Westcott, road traffic enforcement officer at Suffolk Country Council. says that since the appointment of two full-time road traffic enforcement officers last October more than 80 owners of overweight trucks have been prosecuted.
This has resulted in £24,000 worth of fines and costs totalling over £10.000.