glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
No need for a trailer test anymore?
- Thread starter michael N123
- Start date
- Location
- Cornwall
Brother spent years pallet shuffling round the country in a artic.
Pay was crap.
Conditions were crap.
Hours were crap.
Other road uses were a menace.
Site foremen were burks.
Now he drives a tipper and sleeps in his own bed, eats half sensible food, sh1ts and showers in hygienic conditions and mostly just has to deal with site foremen being burks but, secretly, he rather enjoys baiting them. I think it’s a condition of being a tipper driver!
- Location
- DD9.
That’s fine, but we live in a world where pieces of paper often mean more than actual ability.
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
According to the fast food places magazine ( cant remeber the name) they were complaining at the problem recruiting chefs , because they were all leaving to go driver training
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Hellish it is
- Location
- DD9.
Stuff’s about to get real if the cheeseburger and overpriced coffee purveyors are going to start suffering
What a shame.
e5c0rt.mk1
Member
Ahh Facebook
Yeah Facebook, or should i have said the official DVSA page on facebook put it on, not just some random driver winging on.
Even found the post for you
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
You can tell a deprived area by the proliferation of takeaways on the high street - Until those takeaways start to get boarded up and the foodbanks take over then the deprivation is not real and has yet to start to bite....Stuff’s about to get real if the cheeseburger and overpriced coffee purveyors are going to start suffering
What a shame.
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Not really. How is it a problem for you? As far as I can see, it's done and dusted and in the past, which makes it a non-issue for today. Not fair? Maybe, but life is seldom fair.
- Location
- DD9.
I just can’t get over the amount of drive thru coffee places. I bet there’s folk who will walk thru the kitchen, past the kettle, get in the car, drive to one of these places, drive home, and drink their bought coffee 3ft from their own kettle.
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Don't get me wrong, I like a cup or three of proper coffee, we go through a about 5 kilos of beans a month here - But my prefered drink on the road is a mouthful of sparkling water on the go or occasionally a couple of shots in a paper cup (pay for 1) from an auto machine at a garage.
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
I'm in then.
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
And what is wrong with that gentle reminder, Did they say that they fined the drivers who maybe had one out of the twin bulbs fitted in the indicator unit needing replacing ?Yeah Facebook, or should i have said the official DVSA page on facebook put it on, not just some random driver winging on.
Even found the post for you
I recently got called out with a taillift to take a couple of pallets off an overweight (Not one of ours) LWB Sprinter (3500 GVW, Payload 1130 kg exc driver) at the VOSA site at Scotch Corner.
I took 2 pallets (of 4) off him and my vehicle then had to be weighed. Came out at 85 kgs overweight but they let me continue (Most of the excess would be the weight of the pump truck).
The Sprinter still had half his load on and was still only just under the max allowable weight - He had effectively been carrying double what he should have - I have also known of a Renault Master 3500 van getting checked in Edinburgh with a Gross Weight of over 5500 kg.
Maybe those scenarios are acceptable to you ?
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Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
My daughter will do just this, 8 miles to the nearest Costa and the younger generation wonders where the money goes.
One large jar of Nescafe will hardly buy 2 cups at Costa
- Location
- South Molton
Perhaps anyone that has failed the test shouldn't be allowed to tow a trailer.I’ve already seen a person on social media, who failed her trailer test 3 times, over the moon that she can now tow her horse box. There’s a reason she failed 3 times and now she’s going to be towing livestock!
There’s a lot of folk out there that can barely drive their car let alone drive it with something swinging off the back of it. Not sure if this is a good thing or not really.
Know of someone that has failed their tractor test
e5c0rt.mk1
Member
Taking the pee is not acceptable but you are using a extreme.
Once seen them say about a excavator on the back of a artic being about 60% over weight and all this other crap, making everyone think it was this extremely overloaded wagon that was going to kill people, and what hero's they were for stopping it. Turned out to be something stupid making it go from stgo rules back to 44ton rules. So the unit and trailer was fine to carry the weight, but because of some little daft thing they were going to town on the poor lad.
Every comment off the public was praising them for doing a good job but every comment off low loader drivers were criticising them for being way to harsh with it.
I dont hate dvsa its jobsworth people i cant stand, you give people a little bit of power and it goes to their head.
Caravans can’t sell any quicker than they are now
michael N123
Member
I bet most caravanists haven’t bothered to do a test anyway
Steady on, one of my hobbies when on a pitch is watching the useless buggers reversing onto their pitch……pure entertainment.
