Insecure load !!!!

[Lofty1984]

If it’s that bad it’s surprising it hasn’t come in with the straw lorries yet.

How could you safely net a load of straw though that’s the issue

 

[JWL]

There's going to be a rush on those high double decked curtain sided artic trailers you see on the motorways from the parcel moving companies. Even then it would be hard to get a decent load on and make it viable let alone get to half the farms without trashing the traler

 

[tractorsandcows]

Will have to sheet it.

Cracking down hard on it now on these loads, talk is that they will enforce it very hard on silage/ grain trailers at harvest and talk is they will want them all sheeted within 2 years with no exceptions.

Local Vosa place on Friday were pulling in every tractor they could find that was towing anything be that a trailer or slurry tanker etc and going right thru them!

As I have stated before it is good to see that all murders rapes thefts and assaults in these areas have been solved so that police now have time to go after these tractor driving criminals

 

[spanners and hammers]

No wonder they have those long sleeper cabs. It has more than one use here, definitely soaked up a bit of momentum from that roll.

thought coils like that go in a well trailer ???

 

[roscoe erf]

thought coils like that go in a well trailer ???

they don't have to

 

[Courier]

How could you safely net a load of straw though that’s the issue

Netting probably insufficient for jobsworths….

 

[Steevo]

Netting probably insufficient for jobsworths….

Yet seems fairly common on skip lorries. Maybe that will change.

 

[Courier]

Yet seems fairly common on skip lorries. Maybe that will change.

Straw is in much smaller pieces than scrap bicycle frames - all hypothetical at the moment and let’s hope it stays that way …

 

[Sid]

Will have to sheet it.

Cracking down hard on it now on these loads, talk is that they will enforce it very hard on silage/ grain trailers at harvest and talk is they will want them all sheeted within 2 years with no exceptions.

Local Vosa place on Friday were pulling in every tractor they could find that was towing anything be that a trailer or slurry tanker etc and going right thru them!

Best get the BFU on fighting the case

 

[steveR]

Best get the BFU on fighting the case

Why?

Surely the case is are the loads secure....? And TBH, if a trailer is being towed at 60KPH, shouldn't it be legal..... AND safe?

Easy sheets are fittable on grain and spud trailers, and will be utilised, if easily accessed and used. Silage kit is another matter, but watching a maize trailer go down the road with a blizzard covering following cars, is just stupidity. In too many cases, we have made a rod for our own backs??

We have all seen too many farm trailers with loads waaaaay above the sideboards. Heck, British Sugar clampled down on loads into the factories 10-15 years ago. VOSA used to have a purge a few times a season, going through the trailers.

 

[Sid]

Why?

Surely the case is are the loads secure....? And TBH, if a trailer is being towed at 60KPH, shouldn't it be legal..... AND safe?

Easy sheets are fittable on grain and spud trailers, and will be utilised, if easily accessed and used. Silage kit is another matter, but watching a maize trailer go down the road with a blizzard covering following cars, is just stupidity. In too many cases, we have made a rod for our own backs??

We have all seen too many farm trailers with loads waaaaay above the sideboards. Heck, British Sugar clampled down on loads into the factories 10-15 years ago. VOSA used to have a purge a few times a season, going through the trailers.

So for our operation travelling 2 miles on unclassified roads with very negligible traffic we have to sheet every load.

Some organic material blowing off a trailer compared to the the detritus i see spread along the holiday routes.

Zero comparison to be honest.

 

[steveR]

So for our operation travelling 2 miles on unclassified roads with very negligible traffic we have to sheet every load.

Some organic material blowing off a trailer compared to the the detritus i see spread along the holiday routes.

Zero comparison to be honest.

I can find nothing I disagree with in what you say... It is those who go completely OTT that are the real issue I suggest.

Your call whether to risk it, in the same manner in which make the decison to cart round bales down a UCR with only a strap around the back two bales on the trailer.

 

[Tarw Coch]

So for our operation travelling 2 miles on unclassified roads with very negligible traffic we have to sheet every load.

Some organic material blowing off a trailer compared to the the detritus i see spread along the holiday routes.

Zero comparison to be honest.

It’s the big boys that have ruined it for everyone in my opinion
Once a couple of miles would have been a long way to haul silage. Now it’s not uncommon to here of distances well in excess of 20 miles, one local contractor had 27 tractors and trailers on one maize job………they’d all be overweight and travelling too fast as well………..no doubt with long tailbacks of traffic behind.
It’s hardly surprising the police are starting to take more notice of tractors on roads.

Ah well, if it all gets too much hassle I’ll take the attitude of if you can’t beat them join them, sell the cows and just grow crops for the silly buggers to haul long distances

 

[Turnip]

As I have stated before it is good to see that all murders rapes thefts and assaults in these areas have been solved so that police now have time to go after these tractor driving criminals

there are approximately 2600 unsolved murders in the UK, add another 3000 related to the troubles in Northern Ireland. Do you propose the whole of UK policing to focus on these all at once, one at a time starting with the oldest, or some other mechanism?

 

[Courier]

Why?

Surely the case is are the loads secure....? And TBH, if a trailer is being towed at 60KPH, shouldn't it be legal..... AND safe?

Easy sheets are fittable on grain and spud trailers, and will be utilised, if easily accessed and used. Silage kit is another matter, but watching a maize trailer go down the road with a blizzard covering following cars, is just stupidity. In too many cases, we have made a rod for our own backs??

We have all seen too many farm trailers with loads waaaaay above the sideboards. Heck, British Sugar clampled down on loads into the factories 10-15 years ago. VOSA used to have a purge a few times a season, going through the trailers.

Whilst “easy sheet” type covers do pay lip service to the issue they have little effect in preventing the odd grains being ejected on a roundabout….

 

[tractorsandcows]

there are approximately 2600 unsolved murders in the UK, add another 3000 related to the troubles in Northern Ireland. Do you propose the whole of UK policing to focus on these all at once, one at a time starting with the oldest, or some other mechanism?

Excellent idea. Keep them away from torturing the generally law abiding citizen.

 

[Andrew]

https://m.facebook.com/groups/344043152742837/permalink/1610906502723156/

 

[Lazy Sod]

Sheeting a lorry load of hay or straw would be impractical on health and safety grounds. The alternative? You would get a much smaller load in a curtain sider.

 

[Andrew]

Sheeting a lorry load of hay or straw would be impractical on health and safety grounds. The alternative? You would get a much smaller load in a curtain sider.

When Ely power station opened every load had to be netted, it was a planning permission condition by the neighbouring villages to prevent straw littering.
We used to have an aluminium pole threaded along a pocket on one side of the net, throw a strap over and pull the net up and over with a loadall.
Perfectly safe, just time consuming.
After a few years they got the condition lifted though as the lorries weren’t going through the villages in question.

We run curtainsiders and flats for hay, I’d rather flats and sheets every time.

 

[No5]

Followed this chap at 15-20mph for a while today. Safe to say that he's a bit overloaded and not secure.