Overloaded

[djbobbins]

I knew it’d only be a matter of time before someone brought up the subject of that furniture I bought from eBay...

[nepia]

A ratchet strap onto the headrest support - love it!

[eggsarascal]

14 minutes ago, nepia said:

A ratchet strap onto the headrest support - love it!

Parked opposite a bookies next to a pub, all looks right to me...

[woody paul]

On 24/10/2019 at 21:49, Gray git said:

Let's have this picture thread back containing at least one picture per page, spotted earlier, not on a public highway at the time and no evidence he was or will be but we all know the likely hood it has or will be out there!

That cannot be in Britain as they are strapped on to we'll.

[scbk]

I can't remember if I posted this or not, this was march last year, the guy was heading from Inverness to Skye (100-odd miles), in the dark, fortunately he got pulled over.

 

"It was being used to transport lengths of rolled steel joists, the longest more than eight-metres long.

The driver had removed the front passenger seats to push the joist into the foot well – but despite this there was still 3.45 metres sticking out the rear of the van."

 

 

Although he'd made an effort by taping the hi vis vest to it, it was on the top edge so you wouldn't even see it from behind

 

[Mark Bolam]

On 24/10/2019 at 21:49, Gray git said:

Let's have this picture thread back containing at least one picture per page, spotted earlier, not on a public highway at the time and no evidence he was or will be but we all know the likely hood it has or will be out there!

What would be your guesstimate John?

They don’t look particularly dry, either.

 

Woody Paul hit a note for me earlier.

Modern 3.5 tonners are good for far more than the pathetic legal payload (mine is 650kg depending on weight of dog and groundie), but will comfortably carry, handle and brake correctly with far more (on private estates etc....), so why not up the limit to 4 or 4.5t?

 

The reason is because people would take the piss more and more, that’s why.

I think Ben Edmonds comes across as a bit preachy sometimes about this sort of stuff, but in fact he’s 100% spot on.

Why should he try and run legit against chancers taking the risk?

Smart roads and motorways with weigh bridges built in are in our near future.

 

If the law have the bollocks to stop the nomads as well it might be the best thing that ever happens to arb.

 

As someone once said, O licence can’t be that tough, scaffolders do it.

[Mark Bolam]

19 minutes ago, scbk said:

I can't remember if I posted this or not, this was march last year, the guy was heading from Inverness to Skye (100-odd miles), in the dark, fortunately he got pulled over.

 

"It was being used to transport lengths of rolled steel joists, the longest more than eight-metres long.

The driver had removed the front passenger seats to push the joist into the foot well – but despite this there was still 3.45 metres sticking out the rear of the van."

 

 

Although he'd made an effort by taping the hi vis vest to it, it was on the top edge so you wouldn't even see it from behind

 

Idiot.

Everyone knows to stay legal the hi vis must be -

a) filthy, and

b) flapping around like a prem footballer after an ankle tap.

 

Good advert for the Transporter, though.

Some weight there.

[Rough Hewn]

Or how about we look into what we are allowed to do?
Legally!
There are massive exemptions for forestry and hort/tree surgery.
Seriously go phone hmrc or look on their website.
You can drive 30 odd tons MAM on a car licence, with no tax, no mot, and using red diesel.
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[LGP Eddie]

4 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Or how about we look into what we are allowed to do?
Legally!
There are massive exemptions for forestry and hort/tree surgery.
Seriously go phone hmrc or look on their website.
You can drive 30 odd tons MAM on a car licence, with no tax, no mot, and using red diesel.

Probably more like let’s not before someone gets talking about what’s really going on out there.

Crack on is the name of the game at present.

If nobody’s asking and nobody’s enforcing you can’t blame people for keeping pushing on whilst good money to be made at it.

 

 

Eddie.

[doobin]

4 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Or how about we look into what we are allowed to do?
Legally!
There are massive exemptions for forestry and hort/tree surgery.
Seriously go phone hmrc or look on their website.
You can drive 30 odd tons MAM on a car licence, with no tax, no mot, and using red diesel.

Tree surgery is NOT forestry.