3.5 tonne truck

[dumper]

1 minute ago, eggsarascal said:

That's a f****r, is that a fine, or a visit to the magistrates?

£300 fine first time caught they were more interested in the truck behind 9 tonnes over and pissing diesel 

Edited July 3, 2020 by dumper

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, dumper said:

£300 fine first time caught

Bit of a kicking, but it could be worse I suppose.

[dumper]

Job got cancelled and they didn’t want to leave materials on site they got fined last time they did, customer had already paid for materials 

might have some work for you eggs give me a call

[eggsarascal]

7 minutes ago, dumper said:

Job got cancelled and they didn’t want to leave materials on site they got fined last time they did, customer had already paid for materials 

might have some work for you eggs give me a call

I'd love to talk work with you, pm me a number.

[scbk]

4 hours ago, aspenarb said:

Last time this question was asked I think it was the Fiat Ducato with a 1.605 ton payload that came out on top. Shit truck though.

 

Bob

The thing you might have to watch, the fiats, renaults, peugeots are usually single rear wheel, so you could be under 3.5t but over on the axle weight?

[marne]

My vote for the Ducato as well. 

[aspenarb]

10 hours ago, scbk said:

The thing you might have to watch, the fiats, renaults, peugeots are usually single rear wheel, so you could be under 3.5t but over on the axle weight?

 

True, the single wheeled rears are a lot less forgiving on weight distribution. Overloaded 3.5 tonners are easy pickings for Vosa , they are hitting them hard at the moment. Lots more weighing strips going in on dual carriageways and motorways, they can nick you at the side of the road now instead of the long haul and time-consuming trip to a weighbridge.

 

Bob

[Marc Lewis]

 
True, the single wheeled rears are a lot less forgiving on weight distribution. Overloaded 3.5 tonners are easy pickings for Vosa , they are hitting them hard at the moment. Lots more weighing strips going in on dual carriageways and motorways, they can nick you at the side of the road now instead of the long haul and time-consuming trip to a weighbridge.
 
Bob

Have they not got those weigh pads now that they can carry around?

[aspenarb]

1 hour ago, Marc Lewis said:

6 hours ago, aspenarb said:

 
True, the single wheeled rears are a lot less forgiving on weight distribution. Overloaded 3.5 tonners are easy pickings for Vosa , they are hitting them hard at the moment. Lots more weighing strips going in on dual carriageways and motorways, they can nick you at the side of the road now instead of the long haul and time-consuming trip to a weighbridge.
 
Bob

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Have they not got those weigh pads now that they can carry around?

 

 

A lot of them use the mobile weighbridge or pads, the strips in the road are quite accurate so they use info from these to initiate the pull, the system is linked to dvla so by the time you arrive at the layby/pull in they have all the relevant vehicle info to hand. It saves them a fortune in lost time from the days they did a visual guesstimate assessment prior to a pull, basically every pull will be a nick.

 

Bob