cliffystephens:
had one pulled in Ross on Wye about 15 years ago 3tonne “ish” overweight big big ■■■… month later had phone call from dept of transport to say weighbridge had not been calibrated so no further action could be taken…
Fifteen years ago that could probably have been right. However, we look after the VOSA axle weighbridges now and we make absolutely sure they are tested on time every time so that ‘get out’ is unlikely to happen again.
roadrunner:
Muckaway:
roadrunner:
Had an incident just this afternoon, one of our ground workers was pulled by vosa on the M57 in his long wheelbase crafter, 690 kg’s over and a £200 fine payable within in 28 days, he was told anymore “would have been an appearance in court, do not pass go and do not collect £200”.I had to drive over in a van and bring back the excess tools and equipment.
That’s a lot, how the hell did you manage that? Builders and groundworks gangs are notorious for overloading 3.5t tippers. They’re still stupid enough to believe “it carries 1.5t”…
The van weighs 2900kgs alone, it is ply lined and shelved with 18mm plywood, so only has a useful carrying capacity of circa 600kgs, they lay gas mains for a living, so a “squeeze off” tool (a type of giant metal clamp in different sizes ) weigh 50-80kgs each, they carry at least 2 or 3 of them at any one time, the van is stocked with both heavy duty plastic fusion and brass fittings upwards of 30 - 50 different types no idea what they weigh, but they won’t be light, various digger buckets 20-30kgs each, big ditching buckets weigh much more, a single breaker/pecker attachment 100 -200kgs alone depending on size, under pressure drill in a big wooden casket 50 - 80 kgs, so you can see the weight soon mounts up. The vosa man told him they pull LWB vans specifically as they carry much more in terms of volume but are still restricted to 3.5ton gross, the people that drive them do not realise this fact, so its easy money for vosa, knowing people will load them up to the gunnels.
We supply and fit our OnBoard Load Indicators to more Transit type vans than everything else put together.
I won’t name them for obvious reasons but there are many major fleet operators who are quite simply using the wrong van for the job.
We visited one last week that weighed 4,600kg just with their normal kit and crew in it. The depot manager told us that they usually put far more in it than that. I suspect it may have opened a can or worms at that particular company.
deandeane1:
espresso:
… is it just a fine, or can it be points on your licence too ■■?Does anyone know how much per Ton is the Fine■■?
It’s £100 per ton for the driver, or £1000 per ton for the operator.
So it’s better to get the driver to plead guilty and take the fine. As long as the operator pays it and sorts you out with a nice drink.
i was 29500 in a 44toner but one axel was 20% overweight i was read my rights asked to make a statement and left to stew for 12 months and never heard a thing ,still haven’t 