Sent by a friend of mine used to do the Cornish Veg run in the old days
Blimey, they have a DVSA?! Anyway, I would have thought it difficult to find anything dense enough to get up to that weight. Personally, I find water and flour quite heavy enough, thank you.
So how much is Sh400,000? (probaly about £500 
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Think of the children!
Scraggy88:
So how much is Sh400,000? (probaly about £500
About 3 grand, keep piling the load on! 
Pete.
Mattwoodtransport:
Think of the children!
■■■■■■ - old crap 
I’m amazed it would even move, and then stop. Wouldn’t what ever you gained in profit for the extra load, you would loose by killing you truck ?
judging by the payload then it makes 20 tons of hanging beef and 20 tons on the floor pale into insignificance there.
its not uncommon to gross out at 56 or 58 tons running peat up north out of the bogs in the midlands over here,basically as much as you can load in through the roof of a curtainsider till its bulging fit to bust.but theres not a lot of unwanted interest from officialdom either,so happy days all round.that dude is definately a gold star contender though.
You’d think Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo would have more to occupy their time at the moment than an overloaded truck.
Construction materials and plastic bins… 171ton my arse 
Diversion2:
You’d think Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo would have more to occupy their time at the moment than an overloaded truck.
possibly stuff like this occupies them??
Scraggy88:
So how much is Sh400,000? (probaly about £500
just googled it - works out just short of £3,000
not much for that much of an overload!
Apparently, the driver had only just started working there having left a job in the UK collecting laundry in a luton van.
dieseldog999:
judging by the payload then it makes 20 tons of hanging beef and 20 tons on the floor pale into insignificance there.
its not uncommon to gross out at 56 or 58 tons running peat up north out of the bogs in the midlands over here,basically as much as you can load in through the roof of a curtainsider till its bulging fit to bust.but theres not a lot of unwanted interest from officialdom either,so happy days all round.that dude is definately a gold star contender though.
Did similar a couple of weeks back, collected scrap metal from a demolition site and just had the loader chuck it all in. Turned out to be 54 ton when i went on the weighbridge at the recycling place. Had to have some taken off and put onto a spare wagon as their weighbridge tops out at 50 ton and they couldn’t book me in till i was under 44 ton. Still i managed to drive from Taunton to Derby without getting pulled luckily.
Diversion2:
You’d think Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo would have more to occupy their time at the moment than an overloaded truck.
The truck was stopped in Kenya, not the DRC, and the political situation is totally different in Kenya (after the elections in 2007 or thereabouts, you may have been right). I wonder how you could load two standard containers that much and if the reason he was stopped really wasn’t to do with bribery (or lack thereof) or some other run-in with officials.
It’s quite a modern truck to be registered in the DRC - I would have thought there would be a lot of old Renaults and Saviems knocking around there.
Own Account Driver:
Apparently, the driver had only just started working there having left a job in the UK collecting laundry in a luton van.
Own Account Driver:
Apparently, the driver had only just started working there having left a job in the UK collecting laundry in a luton van.
Have another
Fantastic bit of forum crossover!
dew:
Own Account Driver:
Apparently, the driver had only just started working there having left a job in the UK collecting laundry in a luton van.Have another
Fantastic bit of forum crossover!
And from me!
Bernard
albion1938:
dew:
Own Account Driver:
Apparently, the driver had only just started working there having left a job in the UK collecting laundry in a luton van.Have another
Fantastic bit of forum crossover!
And from me!
Bernard
excellent…
Great thread, this! The handling characteristics of that Merc must have been interesting, to say the least! Robert 