Police fair play

[Graham]

It could only happen on a Friday. Up at 4am to be on the road at 5 and on the job at 6. No lunch etc and all the tools loaded back on at 2pm for a nice early finish.

 

On the way back I was intercepted by a patrol car with lights on the back saying 'follow me'. Well I was never going to outrun him in a Transit loaded with roots and a digger on the plant trailer. Ended up at a VOSA station for a thorough inspection and weighing.

 

Cutting a story short I was 250kg over on the back axle and 300kg over on train weight. No tacho, which I didn't even think applied, no rear no. plate and no plate on the trailer showing carrying capacity. I hold my hands up.

 

The cop could see we were decent blokes...I think and said he wasn't going to pass us over to VOSA as they would pull us off the road and do us for all five offences. I walked away with a strong lecture, £30 fine and told to get the digger off as soon as possible. Fair play to him as he said we probably wanted to get back for a pint:thumbup:

[eggsarascal]

Good to see the old bill will give a working man a bit of lee-way, fair play to him.

[Lee Winger]

Transit size trucks are a waste of time in this game, better off with a 6.5 toner and O licence, and O licence is a piece of cake to get, if your works local the best tool is a tractor and trailer.........

 

You got off very very light Graham!

[tommer9]

if your works local the best tool is a tractor and trailer.........

 

 

Couldnt agree more. IMO better than any mog set up etc.

 

Parked illegally the other day for five minutes, had left the beacons on by accident, and came out of the computer shop to find a traffic warden examining the landrover. He let me off, saying he didnt think there was much tree work going on round there at the time. what a star:thumbup:

[PeteB]

Knickers to you! I got do.e for not keeping manual records - 200 sobs!

[eggsarascal]

Knickers to you! I got do.e for not keeping manual records - 200 sobs!

 

Whats do.e? sorry for being thick.

[Billy]

Excellent, sounds liek a rare decent one not on a power trip. Bet you were over the moon with that!

[zeroluke]

Transit size trucks are a waste of time in this game, better off with a 6.5 toner and O licence, and O licence is a piece of cake to get, if your works local the best tool is a tractor and trailer.........

 

You got off very very light Graham!

 

Whats the cost of 6.5t and O license these days? Do you need an O license for a tractor? Not that I reckon many people would be traveling more than 25 miles away in one, though a tree work contractor came from york to doncaster in a tractor, I believe.

[PeteB]

Whats do.e? sorry for being thick.

 

Ahem:blushing:should have checked my spelling - done.

[NoRush]

did you get his name. I'd send him a xmas card. There isnt many decent coppers around these days they all a bunch of useless pen pushing jobsworths