0 a machine for weighing vehicles and their loads, that you drive onto --
1 a machine for weighing a vehicle and the goods that it is carrying, that you drive the vehicle onto --
In a sparsely populated district there might be no weighbridge within three miles.
Their contention is that if no weighbridge is available, drivers may unwittingly offend and be prosecuted.
These weights are enforced by the vehicle inspectorate at weighbridge and other checks.
I believe that of the 800 weighbridges now installed in the country, 200 are not suitable for that kind of assessment.
In two cases the complaint was that the weighbridges were in an unsatisfactory state.
We are installing equipment, known as the dynamic weighbridge, which enables us to stop and check more lorries than before.
Until this weighbridge is installed, it is not possible to weigh on site.
The discussion has also been extended to the availability of public weighbridges, of which some areas are short although others are adequately served.
