This is most likely why there are so many EE reg’d 3.5 tonne curtainsiders so they can come over here or anywhere in one hit.
Happy days 
By the by beaulocks is one of my rarely used pseudonyms - ask your carers what that means.
I asked her while she changed my nappy. She agreed.
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Doesn’t Iveco flog a nifty 6t (or thereabouts) truck - they seem ideal for urban work - it’s surprising how little weight a 3.5 t will carry.
Unless you’re in the DD tangtastic world
Socketset:
Doesn’t Iveco flog a nifty 6t (or thereabouts) truck - they seem ideal for urban work - it’s surprising how little weight a 3.5 t will carry.Unless you’re in the DD tangtastic world
3.5T means no O-licence, nor tacho, etc…
That’s the advantage.
P Stoff:
We have just added a 3.5t Luton to our modest workforce. Mainly for Central London work and small jobs not viable or economic in our 10 tonner.Looking into the regs on 3.5t and I’ve got to admit I am shocked at how limiting it is. We also have some third-party light hauliers that do some of our transport. They are not only overloading by at least 25% but are covering most of the country in one day with no log sheet or records. Seems to me everyone you talk to says the same. How come DVSA aren’t clamping on this.
I hasten to add we are running legit with it, although it would be easy to load more and make extra. We value our O License too much to set off alarm bells getting caught with a lesser vehicle.
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When I got lassooed by the DVSA recently and invited to follow them to their lair they were concentrating on the 3.5t brigade, 80% of the pulls.
This post reminds me of Fords second biggest mistake, the biggest mistake was the Transcontinental being released too soon, the second was the A Series.
Socketset:
P Stoff:
We have just added a 3.5t Luton to our modest workforce. Mainly for Central London work and small jobs not viable or economic in our 10 tonner.Looking into the regs on 3.5t and I’ve got to admit I am shocked at how limiting it is. We also have some third-party light hauliers that do some of our transport. They are not only overloading by at least 25% but are covering most of the country in one day with no log sheet or records. Seems to me everyone you talk to says the same. How come DVSA aren’t clamping on this.
I hasten to add we are running legit with it, although it would be easy to load more and make extra. We value our O License too much to set off alarm bells getting caught with a lesser vehicle.
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When I got lassooed by the DVSA recently and invited to follow them to their lair they were concentrating on the 3.5t brigade, 80% of the pulls.
Please share where this lair was so all the 3.5t driver can avoid.
Ashley Heath Enforcement Centre just west of Ringwood, Hants, hidden amongst the pine trees, blink and miss it.
Wheel Nut:
This post reminds me of Fords second biggest mistake, the biggest mistake was the Transcontinental being released too soon, the second was the A Series.0
If that was fitted with a York diesel, it would take a fortnight to start on a cold morning.
One of the companies that I did regular agency work for were very supprised when I pointed out that they were overloading their 3.5t transit tail lift vans . I think the payload was about 600kg . Very easy to exceed when delivering builders plumbing supplies . A pallet of radiators put them over .
They had the tail lifts removed to get the unladen weight down .
This was a subsidiary of a huge group of companies that had several houshold names within it and tried to be very compliant with regulations and H&S .
Many who should know better are totally in the dark when it comes to commercials under 3.5t .
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Wheel Nut:
This post reminds me of Fords second biggest mistake, the biggest mistake was the Transcontinental being released too soon, the second was the A Series.0
If that was fitted with a York diesel, it would take a fortnight to start on a cold morning.
It wasn’t a lot better when the engine was warm.