Insecure load

[Exfarmer]

How many people have been done for not strapping down properly? Fine possibly? Points
Well what should the penalty for dropping a tonne of blocks off your load, destroying a car and coming close to killing 2 people?
£10,000 fine? suspended jail sentence? Well at least loss of licence.
No it seems £275 and three points.
When some have been penalised for losing a couple of bales or loose straw coming off the top it makes a mockery of the law!

 

[Nearly]

@young bull

 

[roscoe erf]

How many people have been done for not strapping down properly? Fine possibly? Points
Well what should the penalty for dropping a tonne of blocks off your load, destroying a car and coming close to killing 2 people?
£10,000 fine? suspended jail sentence? Well at least loss of licence.
No it seems £275 and three points.
When some have been penalised for losing a couple of bales or loose straw coming off the top it makes a mockery of the law!

which is lightest a ton of blocks or a ton of straw

 

[JP1]

which is lightest a ton of blocks or a ton of straw

Also which is more common, a tonne of blocks or a tonne of straw

 

[roscoe erf]

Also which is more common, a tonne of blocks or a tonne of straw

on the a11 id say straw

 

[JP1]

on the a11 id say straw

Defo but also any other road tbf

 

[76masseyman]

Doesn’t matter what item you lose, it still shows incompetence or neglect.

 

[Scholsey]

How many people have been done for not strapping down properly? Fine possibly? Points
Well what should the penalty for dropping a tonne of blocks off your load, destroying a car and coming close to killing 2 people?
£10,000 fine? suspended jail sentence? Well at least loss of licence.
No it seems £275 and three points.
When some have been penalised for losing a couple of bales or loose straw coming off the top it makes a mockery of the law!

Paramedic killed in 'tragic accident' by a rock which flung up from a truck

A ROCK which tragically killed a paramedic was flung up from the tyres of a passing quarry truck, detectives believe. Jeremy “Jack” Daw was in the front passenger seat of an ambulance responding to…

www.thesun.co.uk

Was a stone from a stone lorry from one stone lorry and flicked up by another.

 

[Al R]

Paramedic killed in 'tragic accident' by a rock which flung up from a truck

A ROCK which tragically killed a paramedic was flung up from the tyres of a passing quarry truck, detectives believe. Jeremy “Jack” Daw was in the front passenger seat of an ambulance responding to…

www.thesun.co.uk

Was a stone from a stone lorry from one stone lorry and flicked up by another.

That’s tragic!

 

[kiwi pom]

How many people have been done for not strapping down properly? Fine possibly? Points
Well what should the penalty for dropping a tonne of blocks off your load, destroying a car and coming close to killing 2 people?
£10,000 fine? suspended jail sentence? Well at least loss of licence.
No it seems £275 and three points.
When some have been penalised for losing a couple of bales or loose straw coming off the top it makes a mockery of the law!

Story?

 

[JP1]

Story?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=280808340641726

 

[Exfarmer]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=280808340641726

Thanks @ JP1

 

[Cowabunga]

Magistrate and lorry driver probably both Masons.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Story?

People might worry about a tonne of bricks, but what about a universal joint from a truck driveshaft coming through your windscreen???

 

[David.]

Be Interested to know the outcome of an incident locally back at harvest when a load of big bales, trailer and all, went over onto a soft top car, at the traffic lights in Adderbury.
Two occupants of car were able to walk away, although with badly farted pants, I shouldn't wonder.

 

[betweenthelines]

Fine is for an insecure load-it doesn't and shouldn't take into account the consequences, so the level of the fine has to be broadly the same whether it's a ton of bricks or a few empty cardboard boxes.

 

[Spencer]

Magistrate and lorry driver probably both Masons.

What are the chances.....


Not many stone masons about these days..!

 

[Exfarmer]

Fine is for an insecure load-it doesn't and shouldn't take into account the consequences, so the level of the fine has to be broadly the same whether it's a ton of bricks or a few empty cardboard boxes.

So we shouldstrap down an empty lorry

 

[delilah]

Fine is for an insecure load-it doesn't and shouldn't take into account the consequences, so the level of the fine has to be broadly the same whether it's a ton of bricks or a few empty cardboard boxes.

I've always thought that was the case. Years ago there was a guy whose landrover ended up on a railway track with tragic consequences, wasn't he done for murder even though the actual offence was relatively minor and it was fate that caused the fatalities ? Always felt sorry for him. While ago now I may be remembering it wrong.

 

[Lakesdigger]

Fine is for an insecure load-it doesn't and shouldn't take into account the consequences, so the level of the fine has to be broadly the same whether it's a ton of bricks or a few empty cardboard boxes.

Yes but the insecure load might have stayed on if the truck driver didn't come round the corner way too f'in quick, or that's how it appeared from the footage.