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7 hours ago, TIMON said:

 


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Oh yes T, why the hell would I risk my license and career just so some loudmouth racist gets job done without providing adequate vehicles - ( watching them swan off to go golfing in their new 4x4 didn't help ) K

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Oh yes T, why the hell would I risk my license and career just so some loudmouth racist gets job done without providing adequate vehicles - ( watching them swan off to go golfing in their new 4x4 didn't help ) K

 

Preaching to the converted Khriss.....

I think this is one of the biggest factors in the domestic Arb sector being undervalued.

It’s hard to compete if you play a straight game in regard to vehicle weights. If all operators were forced to comply with vehicle weight limits, proper sized trucks and O licenses etc... you’d see a shift in the industry.

 

Edit.. not sure where raised voices and racism fit in to the equation though. I can only assume you are referencing a specific experience.

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9 hours ago, oldwoodcutter said:

I doubt there’s not a transit tipper in the uk that hasn’t been overloaded, with its mud flaps scraping the tarmac.

 

Top prize has to go to a log goblin a few years ago that had me load him up with sticks and then stopped on the way out to to fill in any gaps :)

 

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Was up the local sand and gravel merchants last week. Transit was in with the high steel sides ( already reducing the payload doing  that!)? I watched as the yardsman loaded a full scoop of type one. Then another, then a third! Each scoop is a cubic metre. Each weighed 2 tonne! 

I commented it must be the new style 7.5tonne transit!

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31 minutes ago, dig-dug-dan said:

Was up the local sand and gravel merchants last week. Transit was in with the high steel sides ( already reducing the payload doing  that!)? I watched as the yardsman loaded a full scoop of type one. Then another, then a third! Each scoop is a cubic metre. Each weighed 2 tonne! 

I commented it must be the new style 7.5tonne transit!

I thought I'd done well a few years back when I weighed in 3.5 tonne off the back of Cabstar. I feel like a proper amateur now.

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1 hour ago, dig-dug-dan said:

Was up the local sand and gravel merchants last week. Transit was in with the high steel sides ( already reducing the payload doing  that!)? I watched as the yardsman loaded a full scoop of type one. Then another, then a third! Each scoop is a cubic metre. Each weighed 2 tonne! 

I commented it must be the new style 7.5tonne transit!

Im not the overload plod inforcer, but I thought it was ment to be self regulated.  Ie if cops pull you and find your over you legal wieght they do the place that overloaded you as well. I guess two fines and not much more work for the proceeds.

so the loading place should not knowingly overload you.. unless it’s your mate  loading...?

I really don’t mind who does what to there vehicle, after all vehicles are designed to take more wieght than the max plated weights. ?

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I saw an absolute rickle of a twin axle trailer leaving a local premix yard, quite recent too, with three very dodgy looking and underinflated tyres , plus one hub scraping the ground, i.e. there was no fourth tyre.

Just outside the yard there are quite vicious speed bumps.

Mind you it didnt look much over, going on for, a m3 of premix on

I did wonder  .  .  .

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Funny you say that, I spoke to a friend I had not seen in ages... he said he had two cube of ballast put on his twin axle trailer, goes home and it rains that night anyhow has to go back into yard in the morn as he’d forgot some stuff. Anyhow still a bit sleepy, goes into builders yard  as if he did not have a trailer on over the speed bumps and loses the rear axle of the trailer. 

So has to get the ballast unloaded that he got the day before.

 

thats how it was told to me,, and I was shown a pic, wish I’d got him to send it on, it was so funny.. 

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