VOSA Junc 27 M5

[Paper Rustler]

Ok so who got pulled there today? White transit tipper with caged trailer loaded up to the eyeballs with rounds of timber?  What happened to you?

 

[Big J]

Yeah, I saw them as I passed. The chaps in the cab didn't look best pleased, but to be honest they did look overloaded. The load on the tipper was only secured by ropes (instead of a net, which it needed given the shortness of the lengths) and the trailer must have been 3000kg.

 

I actually added 15 min to my return journey yesterday taking the long way home from the sawmill as I had a (legal, but looked heavy) load of sawmill offcuts on the trailer. Given that the Pollock Scotrans lorry (brand new, super shiny and completely empty) that loaded up at the sawmill got pulled, I didn't fancy my chances. F**king VOSA.

Edited December 5, 2018 by Big J

[shavey]

There also just off  Jct 25 heading towards the A303 the big lay-by after the 

small village of henlade 

[Justme]

23 hours ago, Big J said:

F**king VOSA.

Yeh F-ing VOSA (DVSA) how dare they keep my family safe from door handles that over load their vehicles........

Edited December 6, 2018 by Justme

[aspenarb]

DVSA have been pulling 3.5 tonners and trailers for a long time, a lad I know with one of those cab over engine pickups with a roller door box behind the cab for tools ( cab star type thing) was pulled at Leatherhead and had to order a taxi for his passenger because the front axle was over with both of them in it.  They are also onto the tractors and trailers now, they know some of the big HP tractors are north of ten tons, with a max trailer weight of eighteen tons and combinations maxing at 31 tons there is not much in the way of a legal payload no matter which way you load it. Proper size trucks are looking like better value these days.

 

Bob 

[openspaceman]

19 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

They are also onto the tractors and trailers now, they know some of the big HP tractors are north of ten tons, with a max trailer weight of eighteen tons

The trailer weight didn't change when they upped the combination weight for tractor and trailer so the trailer payload is the same, this was done to allow for more powerful tractors weighing more than 6 tonnes.

[Big J]

2 hours ago, Justme said:

Yeh F-ing VOSA (DVSA) how dare they keep my family safe from door handles that over load their vehicles........

I had a bad experience with them about 4 years again. Massive pedants, causing me a lot of inconvenience for something that was thrown out by the procurator fiscal immediately.

 

I take your point, and their original intent might well be what you stated, but in practice they penalise the self employed ruthlessly, virtually ignoring the genuinely dangerous (occasional caravan and horse box towers). I don't object to them stopping people to check their vehicles, rather how they put it into practice.

[dig-dug-dan]

8 minutes ago, Big J said:

I had a bad experience with them about 4 years again. Massive pedants, causing me a lot of inconvenience for something that was thrown out by the procurator fiscal immediately.

 

I take your point, and their original intent might well be what you stated, but in practice they penalise the self employed ruthlessly, virtually ignoring the genuinely dangerous (occasional caravan and horse box towers). I don't object to them stopping people to check their vehicles, rather how they put it into practice.

Agreed. They should clamp down on these fastracs towing non farm related equipmemt with dodgy trailers, driven by teenagers on red diesel! Fed up with it round here, farmers using governmemt grants and subsidies to,undercut those of us who have to do things by the book