Chae1
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What about this for loading!?
Could pull the big a with it in the us
No lift home either met his road train yesterday, tractor with front end loader, spreader, car trailer with the get me home bus on board.It’s probably as good as anything to be fair no second machine needed .
Yes like I say for one man band it actually will be bad to beat in many ways .No lift home either met his road train yesterday, tractor with front end loader, spreader, car trailer with the get me home bus on board.
Don’t try this with a Nissan [emoji21][emoji50]
Following this thread since forever, and the logical conclusion to your ‘circular argument nightmare’ is that if their isn’t a legal SP lime spreader that meets your specifications, then your customers need to change their expectations.but most of my customers don’t want a trailed spreader now.
Really it needs to be a one driver or three driver jobThe way health and safety is going and looking to the construction industry, they all work in pairs or teams so they aren't alone incase of a problem.
But you know in reality there isn't enough money in the spreading job to warrant another man to just load the spreader.
But what it would do is solve your logistics by having another driver to shuttle the loader around. Really agriculture needs to paid a fair price for produce so it can keep up with the health and safety expectations etc. Something will have to give eventually.
Really it needs to be a one driver or three driver job
Two drivers and both would spend a good time doing feck all
Why not buy a second hand artic unit and low loader? Surly it would be cheaper than having the xerion. As someone said previously, put narrow, new technology rubber on the big A and run them at low pressures. Bring the loader and the spreader on the low loader. You would pick up a second hand unit and trailer for 35-40k.
Would it class as ‘agricultural use’, same as an articulated seed dresser, no tacho and eligible to run red diesel?Thats before you start on all the drivers hours.
Would it class as ‘agricultural use’, same as an articulated seed dresser, no tacho and eligible to run red diesel?
Surly the sale of the xerion would cover the cost of that? Why a transport manager? Could he not fil that roll himself? It would be a no brainer for me. You could do other haulage work at quiet times of the year to offset the cost of ownership and you would be using the item unlike the xerion. Re the width, could the big A be narrowed in to make it legal on the road?
£1800? Is it that expensive now? Pass rates wouldn't be great for the intensive course either. 5 years since I did the exams but was around £350 for a night class at a further education college.The sale of the Xerion would cover the cost, but there's still a lot of hassle. He could do the transport manager himself but that's £1800 and 10 days in the classroom to get your TM CPC. Then you have the restricted operating hours you get with trucks.