The Beds, Cambs & Herts Road Policing Unit recently stopped an overweight vehicle on the M25 in Watford. The flatbed truck was not the ideal choice for transporting scaffold materials and it had exceeded its gross weight limit by nearly half a ton. While the...
The Kent Police Roads Policing Unit caught a driver of a down-plated 7.5 tonne unit using WhatsApp in an overloaded vehicle. The driver thought he could get away with leaving WhatsApp voice messages and driving a van with welterweight which were actually heavyweight...
The Kent Police Roads Policing Unit have issued a warning to drivers and companies after catching a scaffold van overloaded on the back end. The unit witnessed the 3.5 tonne van in an unsafe condition and took the necessary action against it The RPU unit had been...
A driver has been prohibited and reported after being caught exceeding the weight limit on their vehicle. The driver was stopped at a weighbridge in Hatfield, where it was discovered that their vehicle weighed in at 5660 kilos, when the limit is 3500 kilos. The driver...
The National Motorcycle Unit (NMU) stopped a vehicle on Ellersly Road in Edinburgh after it appeared to be overweight. The vehicle is only meant to carry a gross weight of 3500kg. However, upon inspection, it was revealed that the vehicle was carrying 5120kg, 46%...
