raymundo:
Good idea Wheel Nut, or at least a yearly service at a proper service agent who then issues a certificate of some sort. Who then laughs all the way to the bank …
The test fee could be split between Travelodge, Days Hotel and Premier Inn as compensation for loss of business 
Legend_Scania:
waynedl:
Legend_Scania:
waynedl:
Legend_Scania:
Conor:
AHT:
Why should truck drivers have priority over everyone els when it comes to parking spaces and lay bys? should be first come first serverdBecause truck drivers BY LAW have to have breaks from driving which they cannot exceed by even one minute. A caravanner and car driver has no such restriction.
+1
Get over yourself you self important muppet.
If you’re worried about finding a ■■■■■■■■■■■■ on your 4.5hrs driving or 6hrs ‘other work’, park up sooner.
Everyone on the road is entitled to a rest, motorway services were not built for trucks, they are built for motorists.
If they direct caravaners into the lorry park, that’s their choice since it’s private land.
As I said before, feel free to try blocking me in if / when I stop in 1 - I’m heading to carfest a week Friday, Manchester to Hampshire, with missus in the car and the caravan on the back, I WILL be taking a break during the journey - and see what reaction you get.
I think, with the attitude you have - ie You are a bully - you should really have your HGV licence took off you, personally I wouldn’t let you push a shopping trolley, you would probably ram a frail elderly person with it for getting in your way when you NEEDED sugar
I take it your a caravaner
I just don’t like caravaners fact
I’m a caravanner, truck driver, biker, car driver, cyclist - pretty much anything that’s hated on the road except a copper
I just don’t like YOU, fact… Not truckers, just you!
Maybe you need to get laid or see a shrink or something, because your head is seriously messed up lad.I can live with that…
I can tell your really offended
Wheel Nut:
My most exciting email of the day has promised what I have been suggesting for many years.Compulsory MOT testing for Caravans and Trailers.
Maybe now you wont need to sit behind a queue on the M5 while somebody picks up their worldly goods and bits of wood and fibreglass because they thought those ten year old tyres that were sat in the orchard would stand a 300 mile journey at 70mph
Maybe they should make a legal spare wheel compulsory too.
I’m not a big fan of extra bureaucracy and government box-ticking but, I have often thought for a while that there ought to be some sort of safety inspection of 3.5ton trailers and below as you see some (not particulary caravans but general trailers) right wrecks on the road. Problem is it negates their big advantage that you don’t have to tax & MOT them and they’re already of no uses to a lot of small businesses through wrongly applying tacho regs to them.
I favour something like taking them to MOT with a car and paying something like £10 for an unbraked trailer and £20 extra for a braked trailer as long as they’re done at the same time as the car. Would still be extra hassle to have a trailer for anyone with a tow vehicle under 3 years old though.
Too much regulation has spoilt things and it can mean things like shows and events are no longer held but, it looks very questionable when a small business that just wants a 7.5ton to deliver a few plants it grows has to jump through endless hoops, in the name of road safety, yet Joe Bloggs can steam around overloaded, on a pre-'97 car licence off tacho, in a tatty old barely maintained 7.5ton horsebox they’ve borrowed of a mate to move house at the weekend.
Own Account Driver:
Too much regulation has spoilt things and it can mean things like shows and events are no longer held but, it looks very questionable when a small business that just wants a 7.5ton to deliver a few plants it grows has to jump through endless hoops, in the name of road safety, yet Joe Bloggs can steam around overloaded, on a pre-'97 car licence off tacho, in a tatty old barely maintained 7.5ton horsebox they’ve borrowed of a mate to move house at the weekend.
Very much agree there!
I agree with the posts about inspections/testing for caravans and small trailers. I see some absolute shockers. I encountered today, a Peugeot 206 pulling a 1 axle Halfords’ special; Wanted 1.5t, how is that legal? I couldn’t fit more than 380kgs on yet prat came back for a top up. 480kgs after I piled it on. I’d say the top up was spread outside our gates when I cycled home.
Still not as good as the trailer pulled by a BMW made from balsa wood and pram wheels.
most other european countries test small trailers, not sure about caravans though.
how many accidents are there every year due to defective trailers/caravans?
in the broad scheme of things, i would say not many.
so do we really need more legislation? do we really need laws that can be juggled about and manipulated to get a conviction?
what good is an annual MOT? not much, it means sod all really. it just means that the vehicle/trailer/caravan is fine on the day of test.
stick a caravan in a farmers yard for 11 months of the year. it may still be tested, but it’ll be rotten underneath.
Nextdrop:
Those above stupid enough to sprout mathsOne large vehicle i.e truck stops and driver spends may be £5.00
Car and caravan with family would spend £20.00
Coach with 50 punters probably spends £250All 3 use the same space!!!do the maths …
I spent over £1800 of my companies money in motorway services last week and about £50 of my own. I have to admit that I don’t have too much of a problem with the caravaners’ but wish they would respect the fact that we are on break and some people are trying to sleep. But then you could say that about some of our fellow drivers.
