12 month Driving Ban

Fendt516profi

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Where do you get trailewr tyres for £100 ?
Don't know, but you can get them here for £259.50
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Or get a wheel and £10
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ford 7810

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Location
cumbria
I don’t know the lad, but I do feel for him, although he may not deserve it. I’ve been there and done similar and maybe worse when I first started out. Not from a farm so all my tackle was bought cheap and rough or on finance, a lot of farmers promising payment and not delivering for months and some not ever, it really can screw your cash flow up, then a kid on the way. If I hadn’t cut a few corners I would have had to go bankrupt and loose the lot. Glad I got out when I did though. It’s shot starting out on your own without a support network
Years ago 25 ish but I was older than this Guy but just starting on my own I was asked to take my tractor and pick up a trailer already loaded with bales and bring it back to their farm before it rained.I drove to the field to find a very old artic trailer with a drawbar welded on no brakes and extremely dodgy tyres. being a big farm I thought they could be plenty of work here so I hooked up and took the load back to the farm. I thought after what a bloody fool never again and I haven’t had any work of them since either. People can take advantage but it’s no excuse.
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
On the same sort of ‘problem’ I was asked a few years ago to fetch a caravan that some youngsters had used to stay at the Royal Welsh show. Except when I got there it was covered in graffiti, two windows were missing, the tyres were very cracked and there were no lights or a safety breakaway chain. I drove away and left it there. Not a popular move with some parents but it was my license and insurance and criminal record on the line. It was not an issue for me whatsoever. It was a no-brainer as far as I was concerned and on the way home, just outside Aberystwyth, what was lying in wait but a Police patrol car manned by the notorious traffic beast that books people for hardly anything at all. Without doubt he would have found and booked me for multiple faults for appearance in Court had I been silly enough to tow the damned thing back.

People need to take responsibility for their actions and not do outrageously silly things like this lad did. I mean, there’s degrees of culpability and this lad was taking the pish and it sounds like he still is.
 

Blue.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Lack of money doesn’t come into it,I worked for a multimillionaire who had me hitch x2 loaded silage trailers (no trailer brakes on either)up to save a journey,this was twice a week hauling carpet and print work waste,once back at the farm the contents were set on fire.
A lad working for him got stopped on the motorway with a ts115 and a 9’6” wide homebuilt low loader,when he got to court the owner said he’d done it off his own bat and his weekly wage was £50,he got a £50 fine,a week later I saw the lad on the motorway again with a 50kph fastcrap🙄
The owner only had a farm so he could use it as a dumping ground and run around using tractors,he also used red diesel in every vehicle he owned,new merc etc
 

kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
Lack of money doesn’t come into it,I worked for a multimillionaire who had me hitch x2 loaded silage trailers (no trailer brakes on either)up to save a journey,this was twice a week hauling carpet and print work waste,once back at the farm the contents were set on fire.
A lad working for him got stopped on the motorway with a ts115 and a 9’6” wide homebuilt low loader,when he got to court the owner said he’d done it off his own bat and his weekly wage was £50,he got a £50 fine,a week later I saw the lad on the motorway again with a 50kph fastcrap🙄
The owner only had a farm so he could use it as a dumping ground and run around using tractors,he also used red diesel in every vehicle he owned,new merc etc
We have some fairy strict chain of responsibility laws here now which mean you can't get away with the "I didn't realise they were doing it" defence.
It certainly livened up some companies when they realised they wouldn't just do the driver.
 
Lack of money doesn’t come into it,I worked for a multimillionaire who had me hitch x2 loaded silage trailers (no trailer brakes on either)up to save a journey,this was twice a week hauling carpet and print work waste,once back at the farm the contents were set on fire.
A lad working for him got stopped on the motorway with a ts115 and a 9’6” wide homebuilt low loader,when he got to court the owner said he’d done it off his own bat and his weekly wage was £50,he got a £50 fine,a week later I saw the lad on the motorway again with a 50kph fastcrap🙄
The owner only had a farm so he could use it as a dumping ground and run around using tractors,he also used red diesel in every vehicle he owned,new merc etc

The authorities should spot check the yard of any business caught operating dodgy or poorly maintained equipment. For outfits that are blatantly pish-taking illegal, just seize and crush them. That would soon sort the industry out, no one would dare take scrap on the road any more. Those days are gone.
 
Then he should have lost all the machines, but if they are on finance, the finance company would be a bit upset.
He took the finance out,He would have to keep the payment up,
Problem is, IF you didn’t keep the payments up they can’t repossess the machines they would have to take him to court = outstanding finance plus court costs
he wouldn’t want to do that again
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
The authorities should spot check the yard of any business caught operating dodgy or poorly maintained equipment. For outfits that are blatantly pish-taking illegal, just seize and crush them. That would soon sort the industry out, no one would dare take scrap on the road any more. Those days are gone.
Yawn
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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