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Weighbridges (Accuracy)

Volume 28: debated on Monday 26 July 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether he will take steps to require that all public weighbridges are able to measure axle weights as accurately as axle weighbridges used by enforcement authorities.

The provision of public weighbridges is a matter for the local authorities. We are taking steps to encourage the use by private transport operators, where practicable, of my Department's enforcement weighbridges. The intention is to make arrangements at selected sites, using self-weighing equipment of the kind which is currently in operation at Poole docks.