Lorry weight tickets.

[. Q]

An update.

The trader (who claims to have traded over 2 million tonnes) sent some paperwork, which included;
2 weight tickets that I am happy with.
One lorry ticket with a weight written on. (Not a weighbridge ticket)
One which is hand written.... looks legit? I did get charged £8-50 for it!



The remaining 3 loads, the trader says "... we are unable to obtain the tickets"

This was a £60,000 deal, I get better paperwork when I buy a Mc.Donalds!

Thinking it is time for trading standards to have a look.
Do I use my local TS, or the the office in the county of the trader?

 

[snarling bee]

That is scandalous. They have made no effort.
Give them 48hrs to come up with the paperwork and then go straight to trading standards. I would ring your local ts office and see if they suggest they deal with it or local office to 'customer'.

 

[puma power]

Please pass this on to the NFU Crops team via Call first. Everyone seems to bash NFU on here, but they will help you with this. I know they would be keen to hear about this even if you aren't a member.

 

[roscoe erf]

Please pass this on to the NFU Crops team via Call first. Everyone seems to bash NFU on here, but they will help you with this. I know they would be keen to hear about this even if you aren't a member.

do they not use this forum then

 

[puma power]

I think some members of the crops board do.

 

[quattro]

An update.

The trader (who claims to have traded over 2 million tonnes) sent some paperwork, which included;
2 weight tickets that I am happy with.
One lorry ticket with a weight written on. (Not a weighbridge ticket)
One which is hand written.... looks legit? I did get charged £8-50 for it!

View attachment 1074723

The remaining 3 loads, the trader says "... we are unable to obtain the tickets"

This was a £60,000 deal, I get better paperwork when I buy a Mc.Donalds!

Thinking it is time for trading standards to have a look.
Do I use my local TS, or the the office in the county of the trader?

Someone’s good smack on 44ton

 

[e3120]

Someone’s good smack on 44ton

They're obviously not experienced in preparing for an RT inspection. Schoolboys!

 

[farenheit]

An update.

The trader (who claims to have traded over 2 million tonnes) sent some paperwork, which included;
2 weight tickets that I am happy with.
One lorry ticket with a weight written on. (Not a weighbridge ticket)
One which is hand written.... looks legit? I did get charged £8-50 for it!

View attachment 1074723

The remaining 3 loads, the trader says "... we are unable to obtain the tickets"

This was a £60,000 deal, I get better paperwork when I buy a Mc.Donalds!

Thinking it is time for trading standards to have a look.
Do I use my local TS, or the the office in the county of the trader?

Nice round numbers.

 

[snarling bee]

Just spoken to a lorry driver who said he has seen everything, including no weighbridge, taking lorry readout (his was 400 kg out), guesswork, and 2 weighbridges on the same site where you weigh in on one and weigh out on the other, and they are both wrong.

 

[snarling bee]

If the OP is a NFU member then they will be able to give advice, and it can be taken further with crops board.

 

[fieldfarmer]

An update.

The trader (who claims to have traded over 2 million tonnes) sent some paperwork, which included;
2 weight tickets that I am happy with.
One lorry ticket with a weight written on. (Not a weighbridge ticket)
One which is hand written.... looks legit? I did get charged £8-50 for it!

View attachment 1074723

The remaining 3 loads, the trader says "... we are unable to obtain the tickets"

This was a £60,000 deal, I get better paperwork when I buy a Mc.Donalds!

Thinking it is time for trading standards to have a look.
Do I use my local TS, or the the office in the county of the trader?

Have you covered the weighbridge operator's signature or is it unsigned?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Bit of an aside and my memory isn’t completely reliable, but Dad had a bit of an incident once……

For reasons I can’t remember, he loaded a lorry one day and because the driver was coming straight back for another load he went with the driver, who he knew well, for a bit of a look. Lorries had to be booked in so the driver called with an ETA when they were leaving the farm.

Traffic was horrendous, meaning a long delay, and just a few miles short of the mill Dad received a call to say there had been a claim on his load of grain. The load he was travelling with and wouldn’t be delivered for another half hour.
He went along with it and was offered a lower price

I can’t remember the outcome, but I’ve a recollection they parked up, made a call or two and redirected the load themselves to somewhere that took it, no questions asked.

He made enquiries as to what was going on but got nowhere. It annoyed him so much that he even wrote to FW, who published his letter, but that got nowhere either.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

An update.

The trader (who claims to have traded over 2 million tonnes) sent some paperwork, which included;
2 weight tickets that I am happy with.
One lorry ticket with a weight written on. (Not a weighbridge ticket)
One which is hand written.... looks legit? I did get charged £8-50 for it!

View attachment 1074723

The remaining 3 loads, the trader says "... we are unable to obtain the tickets"

This was a £60,000 deal, I get better paperwork when I buy a Mc.Donalds!

Thinking it is time for trading standards to have a look.
Do I use my local TS, or the the office in the county of the trader?

To be blunt, that ticket is worthless. There are no collection address details nor delivery details.
In the event of a claim, they would say that ticket could have come from anywhere.

 

[. Q]

Have you covered the weighbridge operator's signature or is it unsigned?

Nothing covered, it is unsigned. ( it is yellow, came out of copier black and white)

 

[e3120]

Nothing covered, it is unsigned. ( it is yellow, came out of copier black and white)

The fact no-one would put their name to it is damning. It might as well be a fag packet.

 

[snarling bee]

Bit of an aside and my memory isn’t completely reliable, but Dad had a bit of an incident once……

For reasons I can’t remember, he loaded a lorry one day and because the driver was coming straight back for another load he went with the driver, who he knew well, for a bit of a look. Lorries had to be booked in so the driver called with an ETA when they were leaving the farm.

Traffic was horrendous, meaning a long delay, and just a few miles short of the mill Dad received a call to say there had been a claim on his load of grain. The load he was travelling with and wouldn’t be delivered for another half hour.
He went along with it and was offered a lower price

I can’t remember the outcome, but I’ve a recollection they parked up, made a call or two and redirected the load themselves to somewhere that took it, no questions asked.

He made enquiries as to what was going on but got nowhere. It annoyed him so much that he even wrote to FW, who published his letter, but that got nowhere either.

Again years ago we had a claim for a delayed load. Lorry went down the drive at 8.00 am, postman comes up the drive half an hour later with the claim notification. We never dealt with that firm again (now taken over of course).

 

[Woody j]

An update.

The trader (who claims to have traded over 2 million tonnes) sent some paperwork, which included;
2 weight tickets that I am happy with.
One lorry ticket with a weight written on. (Not a weighbridge ticket)
One which is hand written.... looks legit? I did get charged £8-50 for it!

View attachment 1074723

The remaining 3 loads, the trader says "... we are unable to obtain the tickets"

This was a £60,000 deal, I get better paperwork when I buy a Mc.Donalds!

Thinking it is time for trading standards to have a look.
Do I use my local TS, or the the office in the county of the trader?

Very suspicious when the gross weight is spot on 44tonne and not even printed

 

[Woody j]

I’ve been loading and weighing trucks for years and don’t remember one at exactly 44 tonnes

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

For the 2021 crop year we had 6,726 vehicle movements.

172 of them weighed 44.00 tonnes, which is only 2.6%

 

[VIP]

Why do none of you ever name the business you have issues with. It’s not scandalous if “fact”….yet you never do