If you have been driving with hazardous onboard and then tip whatever you were carrying and don’t remove your orange boards, can you get done for this?
The reason I ask is I saw a white unit pulling a flat on the m27 with nothing apart from ropes and sheets on, so he was obviosuly empty or carrying it in the cab, this afternoon and he had his orange boards showing at the front and back and I wondered if he would get a tug for it?
Giblsa:
If you have been driving with hazardous onboard and then tip whatever you were carrying and don’t remove your orange boards, can you get done for this?The reason I ask is I saw a white unit pulling a flat on the m27 with nothing apart from ropes and sheets on, so he was obviosuly empty or carrying it in the cab, this afternoon and he had his orange boards showing at the front and back and I wondered if he would get a tug for it?
Hi Lee, Yes mate, that’s an offence.
However, whether the authorities choose to enforce it is up to them.
The fact that orange boards are displayed means that there are packaged dangerous goods on board in a sufficient quantity to ‘trigger’ the requirement, so the lazy git who can’t be bothered to remove the boards deserves all he gets.
Orange boards being displayed unnecessarily might serve to cause confusion to the fire-brigade at the scene of an accident if the vehicle was a box or curtainsider.
It is nice to see some professional hauliers who did the job correctly than 
