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Substantial weigh-site increase
9th March 1973, Page 31
9th March 1973
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Page 31, 9th March 1973
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• Urgent steps are being taken to increase substantially the 260 weighing sites where checks on the loading of domestic and foreign heavy goods vehicles are carried out, Mr John Peyton told the Commons.
He emphasized that foreign vehicles found to be overloaded were treated in the same way as domestic vehicles they were prohibited from proceeding further and forced to off-load.
Foreign drivers were normally summonsed only when they had been arrested under Section 3 of the Foreign Vehicles Act 1972. Two drivers had so far been successfully prosecuted, the first at Lewes and the second at Thames magistrates' court.