I am curently driving a cherry picker.
Does anybody know the laws on driving plant.
Thanks.
try Nationwide plants website
hold on thats not them
Driving or operating?
Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPS) require a ticket to operate them, delivering and collecting you don’t. These are basically self propelled scissor & boom lifts.
A truck mounted one would I am sure require certification. For example whilst I could legally drive a mobile crane I could not (or know how to) operate it.
Saratoga would be your best bet.
brit_mark:
I am curently driving a cherry picker.Does anybody know the laws on driving plant.
Thanks.
I’ve PM’d member scanny77 for you as he knows all about them. He didn’t have too much advice to pass on though unfortunately, only that you should give them a good watering before loading and after delivery.
I did a couple of weeks on agy delivering Mewps a few years back but I had to have someone with me to “drive” them onto the truck till they put me through my ticket.
Don’t know if it was just a company thing or what but it might have something do with the fact that I was supposed to “teach” people how to operate the equipment I delivered.
e.g. this lever does this, that lever does that now f@$% off
(as a postcript to this, although I did the course I never actually got my ticket. the agency and the client ended up arguing ove rwho was going to pay and neither backed down 
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brit_mark:
I am curently driving a cherry picker.Does anybody know the laws on driving plant.
Thanks.
My first thought is that you are not allowed to post on the internet whilst you are on one. You have to be in control at all times.
surely if it fed and watered and talked to occasionally the plant will look after itself 
Mike-C:
brit_mark:
I am curently driving a cherry picker.Does anybody know the laws on driving plant.
Thanks.My first thought is that you are not allowed to post on the internet whilst you are on one. You have to be in control at all times.
Well. I’ve got experience of Aerial, CTE, Wumag, King, Simon and a smattering of Brontos. Sizes of 14m to 26m, 3.5t, 4.5t and.5t. What is it you wanted to know?
They’re tacho exempt, you’re WTD excempt, vehicles over 3.5t can use red disel, the don’t need an MOT and the tax is the same as a car.
hitch:
try Nationwide plants website
Nice try Hitch But you were close enough.
There are some major companies in the UK that deal with VMPs.
Nationwide Access is the self propelled side of the business and Skylift is the truckmounted side. There are EPL, Loxam and facelift. Then there are lots of little ones too…
Saratoga:
Well. I’ve got experience of Aerial, CTE, Wumag, King, Simon and a smattering of Brontos. Sizes of 14m to 26m, 3.5t, 4.5t and.5t. What is it you wanted to know?They’re tacho exempt, you’re WTD excempt, vehicles over 3.5t can use red disel, the don’t need an MOT and the tax is the same as a car.
Thanks that’s the info i was looking for.
Working for this company based in leeds.
esaccess.co.uk/
Did me training last week
ipaf.org/
Right, from their website…
esaccess.co.uk/truck_mounted … id=tmintro
TM44 is either a 44m Bronto or Wumag
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … d_TM44.jpg
TM35 is a 35m Wumag. You can see that little kink in the fly jib at the far end of the extention.
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … d_TM35.jpg
TM34 is probably a Bronto.
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … d_TM34.jpg
TM26 could be a Bronto, Ascendant, King, Wumag or CTE. The ground controls seat is synonymous with a Bronto, and the tucked back fly jib next to the cage is a design I’ve not seen before. However, the cab looks brand new and with only one beacon 
(That alone rules this machine out for motorway work!). The legs are a straight drop. There is a company in Europe that make copycats of Wumags but I can’t remember their name. It could be that one?!
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … d_TM26.jpg
TM22 looks like a Wumag 22m
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … M22HD1.jpg
TM22Skyking, is a King. King also do trailers and a bunch of other maintenance and transport systems. You can tell by the unique looking base of the boom as well as the double support bar on the cage/jib. Not to mention the A frame jacking
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … KYKING.jpg
TM20Artic is a CTE20, also A fram jacking.
TM18 could be a Wumag18
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … d_TM18.jpg
TM17 looks like a 3.5t van 17m King platform. If light blue could be ex Nationwide
And as for the last, the 8.5m TM85, I reckon that could be a simon boom
esaccess.co.uk/images/TM_tru … _TM8_5.jpg
You’ll have a variety of leg jacking setup.
A frame (King, CTE, Simon), Horizontal Fixed (Aerial, Wumag), Horizontal Wide/Straight (Aerial, Wumag, Bronto, King), Horizontal Variable (Bronto).
For photographs you could try flickr.com/photos/wasupthere
8wheels:
Driving or operating?Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPS) require a ticket to operate them, delivering and collecting you don’t. These are basically self propelled scissor & boom lifts.
The term MEWP also covers vehicle mounted platforms (VMPs), but you are right as well
8wheels:
A truck mounted one would I am sure require certification. For example whilst I could legally drive a mobile crane I could not (or know how to) operate it.
The company hiring it to you can ‘familiarise’ you with that machine thus meaning you don’t need a licence 
8wheels:
Saratoga would be your best bet.
Hey! Recognition 
Years ago I spent a few months delivering/collecting heavy plant, this could be JCB’s or sometimes tracked vehicles. Most of the time I would arrive at a site to collect the machine and there would be nobody to assist or instruct as to how to drives the machine. It was just a case of trial and error of what levers did what. Nothing disastrous ever really happened other than dropping one track of a crawler off the trailer, it was precariously balanced ready to tip moving the trailer forward very gingerly (parts of the anatomy firmly clenched) the crawler very gently dropped back to earth. The 2nd attempt had the crawler secure on the trailer in no time That was in the days before ‘Health & Safety’ was invented, when people used common sense to get the job done
as 8 wheels say…u can move the machinery if empty and not being used for its intended use(in other words unloading or loading or testing)anything else needs a ticket to use legally…I am also like 8wheels i have to move machines when doing punctures on them…8 wheels just loads them btw!
8 wheels just loads them
On occasion I have to use a forklift, telehandler or digger to load / unload things whilst on site. It’s a bit of a grey area as I’m not ticketed to operate them (except RT masted FLT) but somehow I’m covered if I am delivering or collecting the relevant machine.
For example collecting a telehandler, some tipping skips and a small fuel tank together.
8 wheels u can drive the machines but only if they are empty or have nothing on the forks…
I have hired a few cherry pickers and access platforms, but never had any instruction from anyone. Eventually sussed out how to make it drive and how to raise and lower, but never even seen a rep. just a phone call and give the driver a cheque when he collects it