Zebbedee
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- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
What you are proposing is not really very fair to the hauliers running hgvs with all the legislation they have to endure though? At the 31tonne train weight we have now it is not short of an eight wheeer lorry anyway and you know as well as I do that maintenance of brakes and lights etc are no where near good enough on farm kit ( there will be some exceptions but not many) not to mention the hours that farmers and contractors think are acceptable compared to hgvs I could go on and on about this agriculture as a whole needs to brush up on maintenance of brakes lights and weights etc to come anywhere near the haulage industry.I do not feel the legislation needs to go as far as that applying to HGV's. We need a hybrid between current agric vehicle legislation and the HGV legislation. Agric vehicles will be doing nothing like the same speeds and distances that HGV's do. A 44 tonne gross train weight, annual test on tractor and trailer (only if you want to exceed 31T gross train weight) plus regular service records that can be done in house.