HC Deb 06 November 1987 vol 121 c903W
Mr. David Marshall

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many detections of overloaded heavy goods vehicles entering the United Kingdom from Europe there have been in each of the last five years; and what monitoring procedures and checks are in operation to prevent this practice.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Goods vehicles entering the United Kingdom are liable to be weighed at the port of entry or at inland weighbridge sites by the Department's traffic examiners or by local authority trading standards department staff.

The numbers of foreign registered goods vehicles weighed and found to be overloaded are as follows:

Number
1984–85 3,199
1985–86 2,794
1986–87 2,755

Earlier information is not readily available.