Common sense finally shines through at VOSA

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Freind of mine new euroliners have old style tilt gates and the german tuv certificates

Now woukd these be legal not to strap
As tuv cert for germany
Plus have tbe curtains and tbe side gates

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gettin-on:
Freind of mine new euroliners have old style tilt gates and the german tuv certificates

Now woukd these be legal not to strap
As tuv cert for germany
Plus have tbe curtains and tbe side gates

You would need to check the certificate which will give the capacity of front/side/rear in DaN - which roughly converts to Kg. you’d also need to read Rutherford documentation supplied to find out the other criteria such as coefficient of friction required.

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Mike-C:

Boris1971:
Can anyone explain what that means, or give me an example of a load we do not have to strap down.

It mainly means that supermarkets can just load cages without having to secure them down (the way they do now). Instead they can just use restraint to stop them going backwards (the way they do now). :smiley:

Interesting development in relation to the strength of the headboard - to which their existing practice only pulls the cages forward rather than down. And to the coefficient of friction between the unbraked wheels and the floor. Those rearmost straps will be under a lot of strain some of the time.

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Left hand down!:

chester:

Left hand down!:
Do you not understand plain English or are you just a typical thick [zb] driver? It says quite clearly “and secured at the rear if the load does not reach the doors” so your argument that it means “naff all” if you have a part load is completely wrong as you could have 2 pallets on the headboard with straps across the back of them and it would be perfectly safe and legal so long as the curtain is marked EN 12642XL and the 2 pallets are no greater than 8cm from the curtains laterally. So long as the pallets are up against each other from the headboard then you can carry any amount of pallets but they must be “secured at the rear”.

Brilliant!
Now the personal insults start.
Why are you telling me what I already know :unamused:
Iam aiming my posts at the operators/drivers who are thinking that just because you have load bearing curtains the load doesn’t need restraining where in some cases it will.
You are arguing with me by agreeing with me.

I’m not agreeing with you because your post is factually incorrect, as I have addressed above. You now appear to contradicting yourself and generally making a big song and dance over not a right lot. Perhaps you should stick to your push bikes and let the big boys drive the trucks where we actually know how to correctly interpret the law. As you were.

Maybe have a gander what a positive fit is all about?
A few pallets and two crossed internals will not accommodate a positive fit in an XL trailer :unamused:
If you big boys could do your job properly you wouldn’t need me on my bike guiding you where your going wrong.