Read the full judgment text of CACC 000627/1983 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. On 2nd of December the appellant was driving a quarry truck which had a maximum permitted total weight of 13 tons. The unladen weight was 5 tons, therefore the permitted load was 8 tons. The appellant drove the vehicle out' of the quarry over a weighbridge which showed it to weigh 16.51 tons. That meant that the load was some 3.15 tons in excess, an overweight of 40%.