Actually Frangers, it’s not the oversize so much as the overweight.
By removing the wheels, it has been shown to be divisible.
Here the rules are not set in stone, distance, cost to strip, route desired and office or official processing the application can affect the outcome.
On the multiple articles on an oversize load; I won a rather lucrative job on my (correct) interpretation of the rules. I was transporting two beams at a time, each beam being 28 metres x 1 metre. The second beam did not cause the load to create a larger footprint.
All other competitors priced the job, moving one beam at a time.
Yep. The gov.uk site gives the example of yacht masts. If several were going to the same site it would make no sense to have them all on seperate vehicles.
Re weights: so long as the weight of the smaller p[art does not push the combo into another Category, all is OK.
Example
Vehicle 40T unladen
Dozer 50T, separate blade 20T
Vehicle and dozer 90T so it a Cat 3. (Cat 2 goes up to 80T) Adding 20T does not make it exceed the 150T Cat 3 limit, so all is good.
Your system of categories is totally different to the way we operate.
I have had a little do with it, but not much.
I know a few who move boats around Europe. The weights are (I believe) fairly consistent but some of the rules are very different on crossing borders.
For the big/heavy stuff: France mostly off of autoroutes, and move in daylight, Germany mostly on autobahn, and move at night. Basically opposites.
We did a fair bit of long stuff 60ft-ish into London on trombone trailers. No special permits needed for that. However I did one overly long/wide run into London several years ago. The permits were for day running only, until you hit the Met Police area, when they only let you run after the evening rush hour had ended…and cars started parking evry’kin’where. Horrible.
Met Police escort were from 8 pm espeicaly when going to an in bound destination they nearly always came from a station near your destination they did not wait if you were not at the pick up point on time, then you would have to wait till the next night STGO Cat 1 max 50 Ton gross minimum 5 axles Cat 2 Max 80 ton minimum 6 axles Cat 3 Max 150 tons thereafter Special Order (BE16)
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It’s pretty much different in every country in Europe, that’s why it used to take a while to get from e.g. Germany to Spain.
To tackle a lot of these “problems”, a lot of loads are now going to the docks in either Holland or Belgium and gets shipped to Spain or Portugal, where a trusted haulier on that side picks up the load again and delivers it to the customer. For the drivers who still like to do long distance, it’s not getting any more interesting, but it’s the way forward.
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Nice batch of pic’s, cheers!
Van Seumeren always had an impressive fleet, this MAN F90 8x4 was just one of many.
Pic courtesy of Ifor Roberts.
There seems to have been a cluster of companies in that distinctive black and orange livery that seems to be part of the Mammoet group. Was it a franchise system or a holding company or something - or just coincidence?
The black and red livery comes from Van Seumeren, and after they acquired Mammoet, the livery was kept, due to the recognisable livery, and the Mammoet name was kept, due to it’s famous name.
Many pages ago I tried to explain how Mammoet came about, and how the Van Seumeren family started. Not sure how to find it though.
That explanation’s good enough for me - thank you! 
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