for the more mature of us before all the reg and hse how much
have u taken over loaded may get some good ones from muck away men
tippertom:
for the more mature of us before all the reg and hse how much
have u taken over loaded may get some good ones from muck away men
Pulled at the bridge M4 jn 18 years ago, was 800kg over. Load was waste paper my official bridge ticket showed me just a tad under 38t but the pleb that loaded it was using an A series day cab.
Boss came out with a 20ft flat bumped the biggest bale off the top back and DfT (VOSA) was happy to let it go at that plus they was waiting to go home 
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Loaded 2 boxes out of Thamesport for Peterlee in the late 90’s.Whilst heading for the M2 noticed my Scania wasn’t going so well up the hills,thought oh well she’s going well on the flat i’ll keep going.
Got to Peterlee next morning,bloke had a fit as his weighbridge coundn’t weigh my truck.
Worked it out on his manifest that I was weighing around 58ton and his weighbridge only went upto 50ton!
Whoops!!
had some silly weights on with wheat guess loaded off the farms . 40 odd tons was regular when the limit was 32 ton , but it was usually late on coming back and the ministry men had gone home for tea . in the late 80s i was on a brick lorry , there was no weigh bridge on site , so they weighed a brick and used the calculator to get the load weight . i was asked to weigh a load on the local quarry weigh bridge ( i had complained the lorry wasn’t pulling ) gross weight was 44 tons on a 5 axles .
I got check weighed at Bingham a few years ago with a 26 tonne six wheel tipper and was about 9 cwt over. The VOSA guy said that was OK as they were looking at one tonne plus overloads, he winked at me and said that “I bet you filled up with fuel after you loaded”, knowing full well that I hadn’t!
When we used to collect sand with eight leggers at Tilcons Hints quarry and take it to Meriden quarry for blending we had to guess load and then double weigh as the weighbridge could only accommodate four wheeler’s, I loaded and got my ticket and was chuffed that I got it right first time. Four loads later I was STILL guessing it right (or so I believed according to the weighbridge guy), but when I pulled up the slope on the A5 to Maria’s Cafe I was two gears down so I thought that I had better check my weight at Meriden quarry…nearly 3 tonnes over! 
Apparently he wrote the ticket out before you even loaded!! 
Soon after that Tilcon redeveloped Hints quarry and put a larger weighbridge in!!! 
I did get pulled early one morning under the flyover at gate 3 on the M5, I had a load of tarmac on for Halesowen and was a couple of hundredweight over on the third axle even though the front to back weight was fine. Told them that I couldn’t do much about that without unsheeting and getting the Spear and Jackson out so they let me go, we had no way of checking individual axle weights at the quarry but the rear axles combined had to be between 18.60 and 19.30 otherwise they wouldn’t give you a dispatch ticket.
Pete.
I had to load 10 ton of wine from Verona on Friday afternoon and 10 ton of steel tube from ItalTubi In Torino on Saturday morning. It had to be on the train Saturday afternoon in Novara, heading for Cherbourg to Poole. “Make sure you ask for the 10ton of steel as there is a 20 ton load to go as well”. You know where this is going don’t you?
Hand balled the boxes of Soave onto the headboard of the Caissemobile Friday afternoon, no problems. Arrived ItalTubi the next morning to be told the 10 ton load had gone and all that was left was the 20 ton load. Being Saturday morning, there was no one to get hold of (1984, no mobile phones).
I loaded the steel on the back half of the box and destacked the vino.
Gross weight on leaving the factory 47.5ton on 4 axles (32T gross was the law). Well, those that know the A4 between Torino and Milano will mostly say it is quite flat. Not at 47.5 tons it isn’t and an F12 to drag it along. Only one hiccup, a blowout just as I came down the slip road on one of the trailers 10.00x20’s. A quick change and off I went for the final 3 km to the terminal at Novara.
I got it onto the train, even the crane driver made gestures (Mama mia, porco dio!) about the box’s weight.
The box was collected from Poole by a chap in a 1926 Merc who went off and made the delivery without complaining once! God old “Bad hand Dave”
thought I was bad overloaded regular 3 or four ton on 8 wheel scammel muck awayeasy bribe the checker
with a few bob they used to love owner drivers bent tickets yes please.
21t in an 18t
Er, I had a dream in which… a long time ago, I had to load quicklime occasionally from a place where the loader wasn’t fitted with scales and there wasn’t a weighbridge. On one occasion on the journey back the wagon felt a bit heavier than usual but nothing too remarkable. When I weighed in at the destination factory my gross weight was nearer 80 than 70 
back in the day when the limit was 60 tonnes…
In the middle 70,s ran from South Wales to Yorkshire pulled on the weighbridge ,44ton , not bad for a volvof86.
Hmm well back in late 1999-00 ish was loading wastepapper in the middle of Sweden ans was to bring it to the south of Sweden.
Loaden the bales two high on truck and the same on the trailer it was a drawbar.They didnt have weightscale were i loaded so of i went.
I had a scania 143 450 and it pulled like a train but this time i was crawling down the road.
Once on the scale the display went black,of and do the truck and trailer one at time.
First trailer it was good for 34ton scale said 43.Then truck good for 26ton scale said 30…
But boss was paid at howe mutch we had so he was happy
Reg Danne
Hiya…picked up and 19 ton box from Hull lateish one night. i had a struggle going up from brighouse.
when i got near the unloading place on Ashton new road i knew of a weighbridge up the road so i poped
in for a quick check weigh. over 55 tons on 4 axels the bridge wouldn’t weigh me properly.
the weigh man said get off and sod off.
John
When working for a small company it never ceased to amaze me how quickly the boss’ attitude changed:
If you got away with a couple of tons overweight you were a real good bloke. If you got caught with a couple of tons overweight you paid your own fine and thought yourself lucky he didn’t sack you.
As a driver I wouldn’t run overweight unless there was a financial incentive, that meant that I would be on double wages if I did, say 2x20+ton containers on one trailer or two 6wheeler loads, but that all goes out of the window if loading in Italy is involved in any way, over there a trailer is not loaded until it is full 
I used to drive a wagon and drag (a frame) that carried the intermodal tilt boxes for an Italian firm, the only way to tell how much was in the boxes was to add up the weights on the T forms as the CMRs told lies. A number of times I maxxed out my GVW before I started counting what was in the second box
Anyone who has driven a143 will know they will pull a house down, so when you can’t get out of low range pulling up Jubilee Way, you know it’s a bit on the heavy side
On the tippers we used to do a lot of road planing.
If it’s raining and windy and there’s loads to do you’ll find the banksman will leather as much into the body as he can.
I’ve been over the bridge at ■■■■■■■ all sorts of weight.
Running from Portsmouth to Frome at 44 tonne is no problem with what I’m driving at the moment. However doing it in a 52 plate FM 8 wheeler was a different matter
I found that a lot of overloading problems was down to the customer Who said there is 20 T. for London for example but that was the material in the bags, It didn’t include the packaging IE, The MT bags & the pallets which in fact could weigh well over a Tonne, Regards Larry.
Over 50 tonnes with waste chocolate. No weigher on the trailer or at loading place. Got to Brackley and Josh on the weighbridge had kittens. Never did find out what the weight was because they just got me to to and bugger off quick!
Was slightly over just recently. Not handy when the constabulary are using the weighbridge for spot checks on rigid motors that day!
Used to run 50-52 ton 5 loads a day every day up until the end of 2011 used to take it down to 44ton when the vosa was in gale st on the a13
34t gross on a down plated to 28t Iveco 340 eurotech.
It used to struggle running light to Belge
The 380 that replaced it was a frecin flyer 
5 ton of roofing felt on my headboard, on a 7.5 tonner with a payload capacity of 3 tons.
There was normally a good 8 inches between wheel and wheel arch.