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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 8066233" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>The rules about towing 2 trailer, one full, one empty, date back to when dairy farmers wanted to take their milk churns to where the lorry would pick them up. Many farmers had a tractor with a fore-end loader and a transport box on the rear. It was deemed illegal to have both the loader one the box filled with churns going down the road.</p><p></p><p>I had a situation many years ago towing a loaded straw trailer behind an Manitou MB25P rough terrain forklift with an empty flat 8 grab on the front. Even with mirrors, I couldn’t see past the trailer to see any traffic behind me. I’d stop wherever I could to let them by, but a relatively straight road for about 2 & 1/2 miles with no where to stop, caused a tail back. So I eventually stopped just past a right-angled bend to let them by.</p><p>There was a school bus driven by a ‘Blakey’ type character, wearing a Beret hat. He pulled up beside me and stopped, blocking all the cars behind him from getting by. He opened the passenger door and said “I don’t know who you are, but you are braking the law. You aren’t allowed to have a loaded trailer behind you and a machine on the front.”</p><p>I told him that he was wrong, provided that the machine on the front wasn’t loaded..</p><p>“Well who are you?” He replied.</p><p>I said “You’d better bloody find out!” rammed it back in first gear and carried on down the road for another 2 miles before he and the other cars could overtake!</p><p>The school kids were pissing themselves laughing! He never did find out who I was, even though some of those kids knew me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 8066233, member: 44728"] The rules about towing 2 trailer, one full, one empty, date back to when dairy farmers wanted to take their milk churns to where the lorry would pick them up. Many farmers had a tractor with a fore-end loader and a transport box on the rear. It was deemed illegal to have both the loader one the box filled with churns going down the road. I had a situation many years ago towing a loaded straw trailer behind an Manitou MB25P rough terrain forklift with an empty flat 8 grab on the front. Even with mirrors, I couldn’t see past the trailer to see any traffic behind me. I’d stop wherever I could to let them by, but a relatively straight road for about 2 & 1/2 miles with no where to stop, caused a tail back. So I eventually stopped just past a right-angled bend to let them by. There was a school bus driven by a ‘Blakey’ type character, wearing a Beret hat. He pulled up beside me and stopped, blocking all the cars behind him from getting by. He opened the passenger door and said “I don’t know who you are, but you are braking the law. You aren’t allowed to have a loaded trailer behind you and a machine on the front.” I told him that he was wrong, provided that the machine on the front wasn’t loaded.. “Well who are you?” He replied. I said “You’d better bloody find out!” rammed it back in first gear and carried on down the road for another 2 miles before he and the other cars could overtake! The school kids were pissing themselves laughing! He never did find out who I was, even though some of those kids knew me! [/QUOTE]
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