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Good luck root crop farmers …….
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Steevo
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I'm asking questions in an attempt to understand. I have never suggested agriculture is any different to any other industry.
Should all grain trailers be sheeted at harvest?
Should all silage trailers be sheeted at harvest?
Should all muck trailers and muckspreaders be sheeted?
Should all skips be fully sheeted securely so that in an accident the goods don't leave the lorry? i.e not a skip net
Should all 8 wheelers carrying soil/stone/gravel be fully sheeted so they don't leave the lorry in an accident? i.e. not a front/back net?
Should all gritters be sheeted?
Should all volumetric mixers be fully sheeted?
If I take the pickup to B&Q and buy a bag of sand does that (or the trailer) need to be securely sheeted so if I overturned it wouldn't escape?
Taking the above tweet it suggests that the answer to all of the above is YES. Is that the law?
I see many agricultural AND non-agricultural loads each day on the roads that if you turned the vehicle over the contents would all spill out.
Should all grain trailers be sheeted at harvest?
Should all silage trailers be sheeted at harvest?
Should all muck trailers and muckspreaders be sheeted?
Should all skips be fully sheeted securely so that in an accident the goods don't leave the lorry? i.e not a skip net
Should all 8 wheelers carrying soil/stone/gravel be fully sheeted so they don't leave the lorry in an accident? i.e. not a front/back net?
Should all gritters be sheeted?
Should all volumetric mixers be fully sheeted?
If I take the pickup to B&Q and buy a bag of sand does that (or the trailer) need to be securely sheeted so if I overturned it wouldn't escape?
Taking the above tweet it suggests that the answer to all of the above is YES. Is that the law?
I see many agricultural AND non-agricultural loads each day on the roads that if you turned the vehicle over the contents would all spill out.
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- South lincs
I think there has to be some common sense involved in this, i know with our 14t root crop trailer if you get a good load on you might just about squeeze 12t of potatoes in it if there is not alot of outgradings. now if you filled it so the potatoes were level with the sides you could probably half that number so about 6-7t in a 14t trailer... so then every potato grower has to run twice the amount of tractor and trailers to get the same amount of work done because of the potatoes being mounded up in the middle are a problem? not very realistic. If you load the trailers so they aren't spilling over the sides and are just mounded up in the middle they aren't going to come off the sides unless you are driving like a maniac.
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
@Phil P started a thread about exactly this a couple of years ago.
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Un-sheeted load police fine
So, my mate has just been given an on the spot fine (£100) for having an un-sheeted load of spuds Anyone known what the law is on this? Is it a case of if there’s a sheet on the trailer you have to use it? What about trailers without rollover sheets? Don’t usually get much trouble from the...
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Steevo
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@Mounty @Cab-over Pete do you guys ever cross the road or go along the road with a loaded spreader? Pete's shown on here many times he's pretty hot on keeping the right side of the law with his machines given the Big A/Multidrive/Zetros discussions.
glasshouse
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Dont talk shyte
hintonroadhero
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In the case of the last point.. a trip to B&Q.. or anywhere else for that matter.. in Australia if you have anything in the back of your pick up..or Ute as they call them over there.. even if its a single empty cardboard it has to have a safety net over it.. no net expect a penalty notice
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For the 3rd time you are not securing the load to stay in an accident just normal road use all loads have to be secured gravity is not a load restraint I don’t know why this is so difficult skips need to be netted tippers need to be sheeted all vehicles on the road need to have their loads secured just look up load security the government have a web site you can peruse at your leisure
glasshouse
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- lothians
Cops have nothing else to do over there
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
You don't think the cop used common sense in stopping that trailer?
I can't believe he didn't weigh it, no way that trailers below 18 ton.
I can see why you're not in transport anymore.
It brings up an interesting point though, if your neighbour had a driver that did things properly, would the boss fit and use covers or would he fire the driver?
Tarw Coch
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Wonder how much one of those tri axle baileys weighs empty, I did have a quick google but couldn’t find out on their spec sheet, but the 20 ton model holds 24 m3, how many spuds in a cubic meter?
Cab-over Pete
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We cross roads often with a load and occasionally travel along a road too. I don’t travel along roads with full loads because I don’t like to punish the tyres too much. They’re designed for land, not heavy road work, so hardly ever would you see me with the load heaped up even slightly on the road.
Nearly
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- North of York
@young bull got pulled for a well stacked muck trailer I think.
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- West Yorkshire
Yes I posted a thread at the time I think to see if anybody else had been pulled for a muck trailer without a net on.
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- West Yorkshire
Pig muck insecure load
I have been leading pig muck recently and I was pulled into a lay-by for a vehicle safety check and was fined for an insecure load because I didn’t have a net over the pig muck. Has anybody else had this happen or heard of having to net every load?
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betweenthelines
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If the load extends above the fixed sides of the trailer, it has to be secured.
Ropes or ratchet straps for big stuff like bales, a sheet for small stuff like grain or spuds.
It's not exactly rocket science is it.
Ropes or ratchet straps for big stuff like bales, a sheet for small stuff like grain or spuds.
It's not exactly rocket science is it.
Not impossible that some sort of regulation may appear limiting the distance that Farm Tractors and trailers can be use to haul produce…
Wouldn't be difficult to sell the idea to someone sitting in a couple of mile tailback behind the Nineteen year old with his phone firmly clamped to his ear sailing past empty lay-by after empty lay-by hauling potatoes from some land that the local potato baron has rented miles from his base….
Laws that fell into place in the middle of the last century are no longer really relevant.
Wouldn't be difficult to sell the idea to someone sitting in a couple of mile tailback behind the Nineteen year old with his phone firmly clamped to his ear sailing past empty lay-by after empty lay-by hauling potatoes from some land that the local potato baron has rented miles from his base….
Laws that fell into place in the middle of the last century are no longer really relevant.
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Regulations already state a 15 mile radius, but if you've got bits of land all over the place........