And no road tax either, take some vaseline Mr B 
Baa ha ha, your back axle weighed off at 3480kgs, when your GVW is 3500kgs?
Youâre gonna get your bracket reamed.
Is this the same van in the other thread, bought for a grand then found out it was a donkey and needed ÂŁ500 of welding to get it through a test? Did you scrap it?
dieseldave:
Iâm still struggling with what the OP hoped to achieve by weighing it âafter I had taken the vehicle off,â hence my earlier advice that he seeks legal representation.
Thats the funniest thing Iâve read all week. Surely he must have said that in a moment of panic and confusion under pressure, nobody can be that thick normally, can they?
Realistically you have to eat humble pie a 30% overload is quite big bit over
kr79:
Realistically you have to eat humble pie a 30% overload is quite big bit over
And big Daveâs swarp!!
dessy:
I do hope you donât hold an LGV license B&D! An overloading conviction is not a good thing to have when you hold a C or C+E!
I do think your trying to wind-up the membership on here though? Troll
Yes I made it all up and I wrote all those letters myself and then scanned them coz I have nothing better to do with my life
dessy:
Your holding a Class 1 ticket and canât reverse?
I think you are the Troll
Boss & Driver:
Has I dont have a case to answer for if I plead not guilty ; should I attend court to try and get off with a lighter fine
What I meant to say was I do not have a leg to stand on if I plead not guilty
I will be pleading guilty!
The letters gives me the option of pleading guilty in my absence and sending in a statement of facts or pleading guilty if I attend
The question is will it make any difference if I attend or not?
The question is will it make any difference if I attend or not?
I guess that this would depend a lot on how you appear!
If you turn up looking like a âtarmac your drive, Guvâ I would imagine not.
However if you turn up looking clean and tidy and full of remorse it may create a decent impression, but to be honest I canât really see it making a great deal of difference.
dieseldave:
limeyphil:
wasnât you on your way to a weighbridge?
if it was me, then thatâs what iâd have said. (it keeps things nice and legal).
donât feel pressured into pleading guilty to get a lesser fine, itâs a myth. solicitors and the police like to use this for a quick turn round. However, in saying that. If youâre bang to rights and the court think youâre wasting everyones time, then youâre looking at a big fine. But if they find you guilty when you believed yourself not to be guilty, then you wonât get any bigger fine than if youâd pleaded guilty in the first place.
if you hadnât travelled very far, then iâd go for not guilty on the grounds that you were heading to a weighbridge.
if you had travelled a fair distance, then a guilty plea would have to be considered.Phil,
There might be a slight problem with that ideaâŚ
This is from the second scanned page âStatement of Facts:â
The vehicle was loaded with a motor vehicle and on a journey from Skegness to Crick.
Mr X was asked whether it was his intention to have the vehicle weighed that day, and he replied âI was thinking of of doing it sometime later once I had taken the vehicle off.â
As you know, if youâre going to use the âI was on my way to a weighbridgeâ defence, it needs to be within a sensible distance from the starting point of the journey. IMHO, leaving Skeggy and not having weighed your vehicle before getting even remotely near to Crick isnât going to cut the mustard.
Iâm still struggling with what the OP hoped to achieve by weighing it âafter I had taken the vehicle off,â hence my earlier advice that he seeks legal representation.
heâll have to plead guilty.
he dosnât have any other choice in my opinion.
however, the magistrates will take into consideration his experience, or lack of it when issuing a fine.
if i overloaded a ford transit, then iâd get a pretty high fine, but if an 18 year old did it, then theyâd probably give him a token fine and a slapped wrist.