artic tipping a load into the intake at BOCM Pauls, Penrith on Saturday morning…
Now , Cemex do aggregates and tarmac, BOCM do animal feeds,
Anybody got an answer to the obvious question.
Oh dear. This could cause an outbreak of blue circle tounge disease amongst cattle if there has been a mix up with the feed deliveries.
Trukkertone:
artic tipping a load into the intake at BOCM Pauls, Penrith on Saturday morning…
Now , Cemex do aggregates and tarmac, BOCM do animal feeds,
Anybody got an answer to the obvious question.
Subbie perhaps? A tipper is a tipper at the end of the day, and as long as it’s cleaned well all is ok.
Not so, tipper trailers used for the carriage of foodstuffs (for two or four legged animals) are subject to strict controls 
It could have been a load of potash or similar, a lot of that type of stuff (minerals) goes into animal feed 
A lot of Cemex wagons are run by subbies, many of whom are part of larger fleets that are TASCC registered to carry grain and animal feeds. So I would say the most likely explanation is that it was one of those who was having a quiet day on the stone job and doing some grain instead. As long as the trailer hasn’t been used for anything on the TASCC exclusion list (like tarmac, recycled aggregates or glass) there’s no reason why it can’t be used for grain as well as stone/sand/gravel.
Another possibility is as NMM says it could be tipping some kind of mineral to go into the feed although in most of the mills I go to they use the stuff in pretty small quantities and buy it in 25kg bags on a pallet rather than in bulk.
Paul
Maybe they were renovating the silo’s?
bigvern1:
Maybe they were renovating the silo’s?
To some feed companies renovating a silo means shoving a bag in a hole.
i assumed it was a tanker
as long as it was cleaned before
i would have thought there not to be a problem
Longcliffe Quarries deliver limestone to a lot of mills that we go to, normally by tanker. They use it in the feed.
I once saw a Cemex artic tipping in a flour mill I deliver to and it had a Cemex aggregate trailer on with a split back door used for Tarmac. This just isn’t fair on the TASCC assured hauliers who have to fork out around £300 per year to have their trailer assured for carrying foodstuffs.
I raised the issue with the weighbridge staff at the mill and they didn’t have a clue what TASCC assurance was so I went to the health and safety manager. All she could say is "it’s all dealt with at head office and nothing to do with me. As long as these people keep getting their delivers they don’t give a dam about what the trailer has carried previously.
xfmatt:
I once saw a Cemex artic tipping in a flour mill I deliver to and it had a Cemex aggregate trailer on with a split back door used for Tarmac. This just isn’t fair on the TASCC assured hauliers who have to fork out around £300 per year to have their trailer assured for carrying foodstuffs.
The TASCC scheme, like many/most assurance schemes, is just another tax on hauliers. It relies entirely on trust and in practice it makes no difference at all what you actually carry during the year, how often you clean your trailer, and so on, as long as you write down on the bits of paper what they want you to write down. They have no way whatsoever of checking if what you have put down is the truth when they come and do your annual check.
Anyone who is going to run legal would still run legal even if the scheme didn’t exist, anyone who is going to break the rules will do so regardless of if the scheme is there or not as there is near enough zero chance of getting caught.
Paul
andrewv8:
Longcliffe Quarries deliver limestone to a lot of mills that we go to, normally by tanker. They use it in the feed.
I was going to say that!!!
I regulary pick a load of bagged lime from them and take to an animal feed place at Northallerton who then use it…
So what? We get grain hauliers backloading stone into our place from Cemex at Wickwar.
A few don’t clean grain residue out before loading stone; Problem here is it can actually grow in the stockpile and can get failed on many construction jobs.
When I worked for Tilcon we used to deliver limestone grit mixed with oil from our quarry to a mill at Royston, Herts, in eight legged tipper’s and limestone has always been used in flour and animal feeds, carpets, sugar, toothpaste etc so nothing really unusual about it.
Pete.
damoq:
Oh dear. This could cause an outbreak of blue circle tounge disease amongst cattle if there has been a mix up with the feed deliveries.
they should be tasc. or ukasta.registered if not they should not be able too load or tip.
bluebodger:
they should be tasc. or ukasta.registered if not they should not be able too load or tip.
Quite possibly but nobody ever checks that. One local farmer to me was running a bulker full time on grain work for nearly 5 years before someone told him he needed to be tascc assured…
Paul
What do these accreditations ensure? Or is it just another money maker like EPIC cards?