Norman Ingram:
Once I got pulled up by the ministry on the A74, after picking grain up from near to Edingburgh, and was told it was over alittle on one of my back axles, I said it was not when I load, it must have shifted, so I proved it to the man, by reversing up this long layby, then going forward and braking hard, he re-weigh me, and it was perfect.
Hi Norman,this is one of United Transport’s Leyland artics in Zimbabweewee or Malawi I think.It wasn’t yours was it?
No Chris, never drove single axles abroad, also my vehicles was in good condition. 
Whoops except the one I crashed in.
Northampton, March 1986…just to remind you of the dust Norman.
Norman Ingram:
Once I got pulled up by the ministry on the A74, after picking grain up from near to Edingburgh, and was told it was over alittle on one of my back axles, I said it was not when I load, it must have shifted, so I proved it to the man, by reversing up this long layby, then going forward and braking hard, he re-weigh me, and it was perfect.
Norman,
I had exactly that situation when I had loaded scrap metal in Dundee on a 6 legger Reiver tipper. You only needed half the body length to get 17 t of brass scrap on it. The load tended to shuffle back in the tipper body putting the back axle over, anyway i got pulled at Stirling and did the same as you shunted the load forward and re- weighed.
Fine with the axle weights but this petty man then said in his opinion the load was insecure if it could move about, I told him in no uncertain terms he was talking out the hole in his backside and with that I got on my way never heard no more.
Another time I got pulled at Stafford with a Daf 75 draw bar that grossed at 36t. I knew I was bang on 36 as I had used a weighbridge to load, the weightwatchers had a group of trainee students with them that day and when I ran over the plate he commented to them that I was a proffessional driver as I had all the axle weights exactly even at my maximum. I had a little laugh to myself as I knew only too well it was more by luck than judgement !
Steve 
Norman Ingram:
Once I got pulled up by the ministry on the A74, after picking grain up from near to Edingburgh, and was told it was over alittle on one of my back axles, I said it was not when I load, it must have shifted, so I proved it to the man, by reversing up this long layby, then going forward and braking hard, he re-weigh me, and it was perfect.
I have been pulled by DOT to go ont the scales but always waved on. Being a food grade liquid tanker with no baffles the syrup moves back and forth constantly and when I pull on the scales I can see the weight going up and down for ages
The cop usually say’s “Just drive over, I am not waiting for that to settle”
Pat those tankers are something else, specially when you brake, it feels like a kick up the behind , thank you Skal for the photo of the grain tipper in the brewery.
Hiya …I’ve just come back from Malta and found this poor old girl,the green sort of said I’am ex Carlsberg what do you think
there was no ministry plate in the cab so no reg to go on…look at the extra lock in the door dose that say Carlsberg
John
John, I could not honestly say, the green mudguards yes, but the cab I cannot get my head around it, for me it just don’t seem right.
I am bringing this up for the chaps to see the trailers that carried grain, and was unload by tipping the trailers up, an the grain came out of a shute, on here is at leat two trailers.