A letter to a Norfolk tractor driver

[spin cycle]

Your car can do more than 70mph I wager, yet it was still sold to you.
It’s not about what’s sold, it’s how you use it.
Lots of farms use 20t trailers that don’t travel on the road when full.

lotta tractors can do more than legal limit...thats not an arguement.......hgvs have weighers and are heavily penalised.....yes i don't doubt there are farms in ring fences but we all know these trailers are being used on the road by many

 

[Martin Holden]

lotta tractors can do more than legal limit...thats not an arguement.......hgvs have weighers and are heavily penalised.....yes i don't doubt there are farms in ring fences but we all know these trailers are being used on the road by many

Large tractors with brakes that aren’t a match for HGV’s and huge trailers loaded to the gunnels with a young inexperienced driver is a risk. Modern tractors are so much more powerful and faster these days that it requires an experienced person on board. It’s only when you get a bit older and if your the one paying for the maintenance that you start to think about how you are driving any vehicle. More haste, less speed!

 

[Matt L]

lotta tractors can do more than legal limit...thats not an arguement.......hgvs have weighers and are heavily penalised.....yes i don't doubt there are farms in ring fences but we all know these trailers are being used on the road by many

Your post was saying that why are there trailers capable of holding more than the legal limit sold.
Same can be said for hgv trailers too. They can easily hold more than their max legal capacity, again, it’s how they are used.

 

[spin cycle]

Your post was saying that why are there trailers capable of holding more than the legal limit sold.
Same can be said for hgv trailers too. They can easily hold more than their max legal capacity, again, it’s how they are used.

ok have it your way

 

[snarling bee]

I have 16 and 18T trailers so I can get approaching the legal limit with OSR, barley and oats. With wheat and beans they don't get filled if going on the road.

 

[Fendt516profi]

I have 16 and 18T trailers so I can get approaching the legal limit with OSR, barley and oats. With wheat and beans they don't get filled if going on the road.

Bet you don't get pulled then for having a unsecured load cause it'll be lower than sides. My dad always said what will hold a lot will hold a little

 

[Andrew]

lotta tractors can do more than legal limit...thats not an arguement.......hgvs have weighers and are heavily penalised.....yes i don't doubt there are farms in ring fences but we all know these trailers are being used on the road by many

HGVs are not obliged to have weighers, they do so that they are running at the maximum allowable weight without being over. Tractors are subject to the same penalties, but seem people seem to think the rules don’t apply to them. Do you think if everyone had a 14t trailer with a weigher they wouldn’t be overweight? There would still be people who put 20t of stone in one.

If the police and Vosa start prosecuting tractors for being overweight then drivers will soon pull smaller trailers. Who wants a £20k fine?

 

[ajd132]

If it meant tractors could pull slightly higher weights, so an 18t trailer can hold 16-18t of wheat on the road I am all for mot’s and testing etc. Even perhaps a short extra test for the drivers. We have already installed weigh cells onto our trailers and get them voluntarily mot every year. Some of these biogas companies are an utter disgrace, 18 year olds on busy roads carting maize silage always on their phone. To be respected as an industry we need to start doing things properly rather than always expecting special treatment

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but there’s nothing quite like social media for putting one side of a story over from a second hand account, for us all to make pious judgements on.

The kangaroo court is now in session.......

Mate, no need to involve the Aussies in this....?

 

[Tarw Coch]

HGVs are not obliged to have weighers, they do so that they are running at the maximum allowable weight without being over. Tractors are subject to the same penalties, but seem people seem to think the rules don’t apply to them. Do you think if everyone had a 14t trailer with a weigher they wouldn’t be overweight? There would still be people who put 20t of stone in one.

If the police and Vosa start prosecuting tractors for being overweight then drivers will soon pull smaller trailers. Who wants a £20k fine?

It really does amaze me that the police/vosa don’t target tractors and trailers more, I’m sure they’d be easy pickings judging by some of the things I see. The laws are allready in place and their can be very few if any who aren’t aware of most of the details regarding things such as speed and weights, lights etc so those regularly not complying know what they’re doing