3.5 tonne trying to do the right thing...

[GTS]

I am tired of spending time, time, more time, money working at understanding red tape which is hampering my profit line, every step. I have just made the informed decision, through your threads, which shows, clearly, that should I have been pulled over by the good guys with jobs and pensions, that I wouls have had a large book thrown at me, hitting me midships. I write about the GTW of 3.5 tonnes, your own equipment, within the radius. No Tacho. INTRODUCE WASTE and hey presto shafted. Laws are Laws, there for many a reason, however I have just realised that my long tested choice of vehicle after much much deliberation has just been blown clean out the water. I eventually based my choice around my chipper and experience/time spent at present in trees and came up with a landy110 hicap with a purpose built back to house every tool I use towing a trailer tt85 soon to be swapped for 10x5 electric tip. Proud that I had come to a decision with the advocates writings wringing in my ears, ive costed financed and Tuesday going for a test drive. BUT NOW why bother. Lets just get a crewcab tipper with a cage on the back covered in a sign written tarp with one of those digital weighing scales so I know when to stop and tip. For my own personal setup its going to really now cost me in kit as I was going a different way. In time, I don't have a yard so everything comes out in the morning and away at night, I wanted to "set myself up" but already before I really start im setting myself up for either tacho wonderment or labourious lumbering of kit twice a day due to trying to protect my investments and profit. Thanks. Just sometimes.....

[hazzygawa]

I often think whether I should get the crewcab transit tipper and loose the 4x4& 10/5 tipper trailer.

[gensetsteve]

The crew cab transit tipper is vosas vehicle of choice. They stop everyone almost guaranteed to be overweight and the chassis crack just behind the cab.

[Al Cormack]

The crew cab transit tipper is vosas vehicle of choice. They stop everyone almost guaranteed to be overweight and the chassis crack just behind the cab.

 

The crewcab tranny I was given to use a few years ago, when I worked for someone else, weighed 3t empty with all the equipment loaded, only leaving 0.5t payload before being overloaded. :eek:

[GTS]

:001_tongue:what to do .5 payload, my dumps weigh more than that

[hazzygawa]

Hahaha:p

[shendy]

I've got a new single cab transit at work with a storage bit behind the cab. I can carry 600kg of chip!!!!

 

 

Sent from the future.

[BigNick]

No prob with Tacho 4.5 hrs driving befor 45 min brake so you wont have a prob with driving hrs and just get a cpc to cover you and all is well

[treequip]

I am tired of spending time, time, more time, money working at understanding red tape which is hampering my profit line, every step. I have just made the informed decision, through your threads, which shows, clearly, that should I have been pulled over by the good guys with jobs and pensions, that I wouls have had a large book thrown at me, hitting me midships. I write about the GTW of 3.5 tonnes, your own equipment, within the radius. No Tacho. INTRODUCE WASTE and hey presto shafted. Laws are Laws, there for many a reason, however I have just realised that my long tested choice of vehicle after much much deliberation has just been blown clean out the water. I eventually based my choice around my chipper and experience/time spent at present in trees and came up with a landy110 hicap with a purpose built back to house every tool I use towing a trailer tt85 soon to be swapped for 10x5 electric tip. Proud that I had come to a decision with the advocates writings wringing in my ears, ive costed financed and Tuesday going for a test drive. BUT NOW why bother. Lets just get a crewcab tipper with a cage on the back covered in a sign written tarp with one of those digital weighing scales so I know when to stop and tip. For my own personal setup its going to really now cost me in kit as I was going a different way. In time, I don't have a yard so everything comes out in the morning and away at night, I wanted to "set myself up" but already before I really start im setting myself up for either tacho wonderment or labourious lumbering of kit twice a day due to trying to protect my investments and profit. Thanks. Just sometimes.....

 

Don't take this the wrong way but how well have you understood the situation? I only ask because the 3500kg is GVW not GTW and its own goods rather than equipment.

[gensetsteve]

Don't take this the wrong way but how well have you understood the situation? I only ask because the 3500kg is GVW not GTW and its own goods rather than equipment.

 

I think he means if your gross train weight goes over 3.5 tonne you need a tacho