Yeah so not covered in slurry day in day out??? Diversification - we haul mostly grain, but a decent lump of sugar beet, and a few spuds and some fert too. Had a truck since the 60's, grown from one artic in 1991 to seven today.
Yeah so not covered in slurry day in day out??? Diversification - we haul mostly grain, but a decent lump of sugar beet, and a few spuds and some fert too. Had a truck since the 60's, grown from one artic in 1991 to seven today.
Directly beneath this thread is another by the same poster entitled 'Days like these' where he talks about how stressed he is...........
Just saying
Digestate from a digester or slurry from a farm. Mmmmmmm. Garantee it will be sh!t high.How is a truck going to get covered in slurry day in, day out? I see a fleet of guys hauling digestate in trucks regularly and they never have so much as a splash on them?
Digestate from a digester or slurry from a farm. Mmmmmmm. Garantee it will be sh!t high.
Ah so hes not planning to have an arctic guzzlerIt's a pipe in and a pipe out, on concrete. I don't know Baldrick's setup but I doubt he is intending to back the wagon into the lagoon and shovel it through a hole in the top of it.
If you had an artic guzzler the shite would cover up the sign writing.Ah so hes not planning to have an arctic guzzler
What's he done? Retired?Have a word with Hywel Richards Cwrt Malle, Carmarthen, who I believe has considered the problem and has made a decision on this capital demanding venture without the manage ment input needed to make it financialy certain .
Has he got a Burt Reynolds moustache ?Have a word with Hywel Richards Cwrt Malle, Carmarthen, who I believe has considered the problem and has made a decision on this capital demanding venture without the manage ment input needed to make it financialy certain .
I've run fair sized transport operations for the last twenty years, so here's my input.
As soon as you start doing commercial haulage (backloads) rather than just "own goods" you'll need a Manager CPC ticket etc.(or someone who will agree to act as your Manager for O licence purposes) as DVSA will have you jumping through lots of hoops. Even just for Own Goods, you will need to get an O licence which means advertising for Objections, proving you have the finances to maintain the vehicle and that you are "a person of good repute".
All of that's doable but in your position (literally) the whole thing might fall down on times & distances. Where ever you're fetching from needs to be no more than 4 hrs away as the driver is limited to 4.5 hrs drive/45 min break/4.5 hrs and that includes traffic jams. So getting stuck in North Wales holiday traffic can suddenly mean you're into a two day job. Which is probably why hauliers charge so much
We started off with and old but sound and CHEAP unit and a similar bulk trailer with a part time driver and it didn't matter that it wasn't running all the time because it was cheap. As soon as you start getting more expensive stuff about the standing costs and depreciation starts to bite. When they break down they are expensive to fix and if you have to employ a driver that will kill it for what you have in mind.
If you have a farm worker who will get an HGV licence possibly at your expense ('000's) they will probably then leave to go full time HGV driving as it pays better and for less hours, so it comes back to bite you.
Sorry to be so negative but been there ....
can I ask does the time spent doing other work count as driving time?
only asking as I did 8.5 hrs work on minday on a lorry and only shy of 4 hrs drinving recorded on the taco, with a 15 min break. rest of time was loading or unloading lorry on multi drops