Lorry Insurance

[Pennine Ploughing]

there is no testing of spares

Well you can fail the test for a bold spare, so I would of thought date code will apply as well

 

[roscoe erf]

Well you can fail the test for a bold spare, so I would of thought date code will apply as well

no you cant

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

no you cant

Your right, my mistake, I just googled it,

 

[puntabrava]

As an aside I was in a Scania depot a while ago mooching around the yard rather than be a Covid stat in the drivers waiting room and was looking at the drive tyres on a big old Oakley horse box, the bloody things were perished in the sidewalls very badly but apparently had just been mot’d.
Absolute idiots the lawmakers.

 

[itsalwaysme]

Also an x horse box converted to a camper van went through the crash barrier on M5.
The old stuff trundling out to a Sunday event in July is more likely to suffer tyre failure than a lorry in full time use and eating two sets of tyres a year.

The new rule is aiming at the old low mileage stuff, "a lorry in full time use" is unlikely to have any 10 year old tyres, so it's not going to make any difference to them at test

 

[roscoe erf]

The new rule is aiming at the old low mileage stuff, "a lorry in full time use" is unlikely to have any 10 year old tyres, so it's not going to make any difference to them at test

used to sell no end of second life tyres on rims mainly to tipper boys as they tended to get through em pretty sure even they only ran them on the rears

 

[itsalwaysme]

used to sell no end of second life tyres on rims mainly to tipper boys as they tended to get through em pretty sure even they only ran them on the rears

"Tipper boys" say no more

 

[puntabrava]

The new rule is aiming at the old low mileage stuff, "a lorry in full time use" is unlikely to have any 10 year old tyres, so it's not going to make any difference to them at test

Yes, that is my point, but the ‘’old low mileage stuff’’ is not subject to the ruling.
The point of your post being?

 

[itsalwaysme]

Yes, that is my point, but the ‘’old low mileage stuff’’ is not subject to the ruling.
The point of your post being?

They are only exempt if over 40 years old, plenty of horseboxes etc 15-20 years old that it will apply to

 

[borderterribles]

Main reason I sacked the NFU Insurance off was their apparent wooing of horsebox owners and occasional users, by offering low premiums , when my own professionally maintained LGV's premium seemed to rise annually.
I appreciate that they see risk rise with frequency of use, but allowance didn't seem to be made for lack of claims, maintenance records, age of vehicle, never mind experience and competence of driver. They seemed to favour some old Roadrunner or TK ( that was a knacker before it got repurposed) standing in a field for months on end, over something that had all the former.