Farmers delivering firewood using tractor and trailer

[Tom D]

I posted a link on here a while back from the customs and excise website. reading that it is quite clear that unless the logs were part of the farms business then they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Has to be white. its a greyer area when hauling timber back to the yard as it depends where it came from. But hauling logs to a customer is white all the way. I know of a farmer round here who was done for hauling scrap from the farm to the scrappy and heard of another who was hauling waste wood for the village nov5th bonfire.

 

Question is will he get caught?

[chazzer]

A bit off topic and probably not much help but, I heard a guy from Cornwall was prosecuted for cutting a cricket pitch (FOC) using red diesel.

 

Charlie

[zeroluke]

Would said farmer need an O license?

[nick channer]

we deliver hay,straw haylage within a 30 mile radius of our farm.. we also run a fastrac with a hookloader trailer on dropping 40 yard bins to demo sites in same area... should use white for all of it... if we get caught we'l pay the fine... in the mean time we'll stay as we are... same as running the mog on red for domestic tree work...

[renewablejohn]

I am sure fastracs were targeted in a sting operation around use as an awful lot of farmers were done in a short period of time. The message did get out and very few risk it if they do other operations besides farming which most do.

[j warwick]

If you get way with running on cherry for long enough the saving will outweigh the fine.

[jpbeaver]

If you get way with running on cherry for long enough the saving will outweigh the fine.

 

Would you run all trucks on red then?

[Tom D]

If you get way with running on cherry for long enough the saving will outweigh the fine.

 

Problem is, although the first fine is light, your number plate goes on a database and they target you from there on.. get caught twice and you may be in bigger trouble..

[volvo]

They might impond your tractor and trailer and crawl all over them and they will find faults.

That is what happened to a guy i know.

Is it worth the hassle and fine?

[j warwick]

Would you run all trucks on red then?

 

No I wouldnt but I think there is very little deterent.