Bloke in the two mile queue would happily see that cut to couple of miles…Regulations already state a 15 mile radius, but if you've got bits of land all over the place........
Bloke in the two mile queue would happily see that cut to couple of miles…Regulations already state a 15 mile radius, but if you've got bits of land all over the place........
15 miles radius only applies to haulage off farm not onto farmRegulations already state a 15 mile radius, but if you've got bits of land all over the place........
law already says to pull in if you've got 2-3 cars behind you and it is safe to do so.Bloke in the two mile queue would happily see that cut to couple of miles…
Like I’m not remembering the five miles I did a few weeks ago in a queue behind said Potato man with phone clamped to ear on a busy A road at 5pm…..past more than two lay byes and never slackened…law already says to pull in if you've got 2-3 cars behind you and it is safe to do so.
big grey area as "safe to do so". On a busy road you get 2-3 cars behind you the second you pull out, hence nobody heeds that law. if you pull in on said busy road you never get out again as nobody is going to let you out...
we pulled in when moving the combine at about 5ish. we were sat there for ages waiting to get out. 5 miles isnt that far, would you rather miss 5 minutes of whatever rubbish is on TV now, or eat? if everybody pulled in every time there was a queue behind them everything would take twice as long. Anyway most big farms have 50k gearboxes, or even fasttracks doing the hauling now, which can keep up with some of the slow traffic on the main roads. Personally im a lot more pee'd when im stuck behind some twit in a micra doing 30 down a road he/she could very easily do 60 down, than i am following a tractor that cant go any quicker and is putting food on my plate.Like I’m not remembering the five miles I did a few weeks ago in a queue behind said Potato man with phone clamped to ear on a busy A road at 5pm…..past more than two lay byes and never slackened…
Agreed pull in you will probably never get out again…..some of it was on dual carriageway way…by the time the trucks at the front had got past there wasn’t any dual left for the rest of the tail…one of the lay byes was on the dualled bit.
Must be cause you’ve got that wrong doesn’t have to be above the sides still needs securingIf 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.
Winding A road….plenty of Double White lines…I reckon the queue was over a mile long.we pulled in when moving the combine at about 5ish. we were sat there for ages waiting to get out. 5 miles isnt that far, would you rather miss 5 minutes of whatever rubbish is on TV now, or eat? if everybody pulled in every time there was a queue behind them everything would take twice as long. Anyway most big farms have 50k gearboxes, or even fasttracks doing the hauling now, which can keep up with some of the slow traffic on the main roads. Personally im a lot more pee'd when im stuck behind some twit in a micra doing 30 down a road he/she could very easily do 60 down, than i am following a tractor that cant go any quicker and is putting food on my plate.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a beet lorry sheeted down going into the factory. None of mine gets sheeted by my contractor. The guys clamber on the load to smooth out any peaks and that’s it. You’re never going to get a level or less than level load of pots/onions/beet jump out of a bulker unless you roll it. Just an observation; I’m not sure about the actual law regarding it.Must be cause you’ve got that wrong doesn’t have to be above the sides still needs securing
It needs to be covered as far as I know. Not a difficult task these days with electric tarps.I don’t think I’ve ever seen a beet lorry sheeted down going into the factory. None of mine gets sheeted by my contractor. The guys clamber on the load to smooth out any peaks and that’s it. You’re never going to get a level or less than level load of pots/onions/beet jump out of a bulker unless you roll it. Just an observation; I’m not sure about the actual law regarding it.
That's the interesting one isn't it. Technically straw flying off makes it insecure. My guess is a cop would pull you if you'd just left the field and were getting up to speed, or you'd unloaded and left the loose on the deck, which all blows off at once.what about all these lorry loads of straw you see going down the road with bits blowing off isn't that an insecure load, should be sheeted right over to stop this ?
I used to work for British Sugar so I actually spoke to an old colleague just now. Seemingly they have an agreement with VOSA. Sheeting will not be enforced however level loads and weights will. Would explain why they’re so keen to level the peaks. Beet can be absolutely disgusting so I can understand why they don’t want to get the sheets mauled up with mud potentially contaminating other cleaner loads like grain.It needs to be covered as far as I know. Not a difficult task these days with electric tarps.
Just because you see people doing it, it doesn't men they're doing it right.
The police may decide to have a clamp down outside a beet factory and pull anyone not covered as well as weigh them.
Luckily they don't do it.
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?
You never hit a spud or onion or sugar beet on a motor bike then! Our local lot are carting onions. Every corner is like a roulette of huge onion marbles. Only saving grace is it’s slowing the racing Lycra lot! If that was rubble that fell off a lorry and hit your wife in her Porsche with your kids, you’d be creating hell. Why are farmers any different?
So someone has to die first before you’ll secure your load isn’t that the point of road safety just like hse you have a health and safety policy you like to tell us your a very safe employer I’d get your dad to hide that spadei have made no comment re weight …….. which I agree does look dubious
and for the record in all the years we ran up to 13 artics moving many hundred of thousand tones a year not ONCE did we receive penalty for being overweight or anything else for that matter, we had a 100% clean record with police and vosa
I’m just saying that far worse things happen on our roads than a few stray potatoes, just maybe the police time would be better spent elsewhere
has anyones death ever been record as due to a “potato on the road” ? ……. Just saying !
but it’s not rubble is it, it’s a potato
how many road deaths are down to stray potatoes every year ?
So someone has to die first before you’ll secure your load isn’t that the point of road safety just like hse you have a health and safety policy you like to tell us your a very safe employer I’d get your dad to hide that spade
Some beet lorries risk dropping beet after they have tipped their load, as tend to get beet sat on top of easy sheet hoop above back door and centre bar, but you are not allowed to climb on trailer on bs property to remove. Catch 22.I used to work for British Sugar so I actually spoke to an old colleague just now. Seemingly they have an agreement with VOSA. Sheeting will not be enforced however level loads and weights will. Would explain why they’re so keen to level the peaks. Beet can be absolutely disgusting so I can understand why they don’t want to get the sheets mauled up with mud potentially contaminating other cleaner loads like grain.