Fuller make RoadRangers. They continued in UK under the name of Eaton.
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Actually, the same here, but they are universally called RoadRangers (even in advertising Eaton is only in the fine print), or Roadies and Bushrangers, in truckie parlance.
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Maybe, during my time here (I retired at the end of 2002) I was always on 5 axles and I assume 44 tonnes, but I never worried about that because it was a frigo and nobody ever shoved anything really heavy inside. Never occurred to me to measure it either. 
Eaton isnât a UK thing. Eaton bought the Fuller manufacturing company a long time ago. After a quick Google, 1958. The Fuller Roadranger was developed and is made by Fuller under Eaton ownership. Interestingly, in the US, whilst itâs correct name is the Eaton Fuller Roadranger, in everyday speech, they call them Eatons, not Fullers.
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What can I say?
A thread on Lengths to avoid de-railing another one ends up on weights and gearboxesâŚ
Itâs TNUK innit! 
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Relax. !!! Just go with the flow 
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It could have gone another wayâŚ
At least it is clean. So far.
Found this The longest truck in the world is the length of 156 London BUSES â Supercar Blondie but no mention of the weight of it?
112 trailers and dollies at ??
Close to 1,000T ?? Guessing?
156 London buses eh? Now, to my knowledge those buses over the years have come in at 27â, 30â, 33â, 36â and 40â, not to mention even shorter mini & midi buses under 20â. 
1,474m / 156 = 9.45m or about-ish 31ft. per bus.
Unsurprisingly âlength of a busâ is not the best measure, but is not actually wrong.
Maybe 200m shorter than the Severn Bridge, or slightly longer than the Dartford Tunnel might give a better idea?
Image doing a two hourly walk around check on that!
Youâd need a 31â bus containing the local Wheel Tappers & Shuntersâ Club to help you.
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Or you could get Carryfast to drive forward as you checked one side, then reverse back as do the other side. I do hope it doesnât have a 15 speed. 
Book onâŚ
Daily checksâŚ
Book offâŚ
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Once heâs worked out how to back up an eight-wheeler wrecker pulling a broken down drawbar outfit on TIR-plates and worked out that the wrecker doesnât need TIR-plates but both the prime-mover and the trailer need their own separate ones, and then gets the 15-sp 'box on the wrecker into reverse, he might even leave the yard. On the other handâŚ
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I hope thereâs a decent bar nearby. 
Our daf ( not sure if itâs xg/xf or both ) were stopped from pulling extra long trailers ( are they 28 palls ?) as unit + tri made them over length .
I donât do long trailers so donât know the specifics of it , when they realised this etc , but only our scanias & mercs are allowed to pull long trailers now .
Is a standard pallet 4âx4â, there?
No donât think so ( not that Iâve ever measured them) , I believe there 1 x 1.2 metres ( 47 inch x39 inch ) , but could as I say be wrong .
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As @ady says the VMF 1.0m x 1.2m pallet is the most popular here.
4 way entry with 9 blocks on the bottom and slats running both ways on the base.
Europe mostly uses a Euro standard 1.2m x 0.8m pallet
9 blocks on the base but bottom runners going long ways only not cross ways.
There is some cross-over between UK and EU users. Aldi use Euro Plts in all countries.
Both with slatted, not solid decks.
Some specialist pallets such as solid deck 1.2 x 1.2m (4ft sq) for drums, but they are not common.
Some containers from the US have plts that are 2way entry, but have small cut-outs in the other direction that will take a forklift blade but not a normal pallet truck.
They often have slatted bases as well as slatted decks which makes plt truck use very awkward, but with a bit of work, sometimes doable.
Lots of companies use blue Chep plts. A type of plt hire system. Have you got that system there?
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