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DSCF0003.JPG I was behind this wagon this morning in Leeds :open_mouth:No net to secure the load :open_mouth:

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Iv driven a few skip wagons in my time. Gota say, i would of netted it. But i can see why he didnt bother, re-bar sticking out the top, makes it hard to get the net off and rips it.

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Id be keeping my distance :open_mouth:

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Loads a bit iffy, but the guy deserves some credit, its the first skip lorry Iā€™ve seen with working lights, marker boards and a legible no plate !

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I wouldā€™ve thrown a net over it, just in case. Plus I also have working lights, markerboards and legible number plate.

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My hubby got band from a land fill site at beaconfield for not netting up. The manger of the landfill followed him up the m40 saw no net on the load of muck and rocks by the time hubby had reached the weigh bridge the guy turned him a way and sent a leter to the skip company banning him from the site for 2 monthes so he had to use calvert and slough landfill. You live and learn

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merc0447:
Id be keeping my distance :open_mouth:

me too lol

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BIGRIG:
0 I was behind this wagon this morning in Leeds :open_mouth:No net to secure the load :open_mouth:

Are they modernising Gipton estate?

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Carol babe:
My hubby got band from a land fill site at beaconfield for not netting up. The manger of the landfill followed him up the m40 saw no net on the load of muck and rocks by the time hubby had reached the weigh bridge the guy turned him a way and sent a leter to the skip company banning him from the site for 2 monthes so he had to use calvert and slough landfill. You live and learn

Couldā€™ve been worse; he couldā€™ve been sent to Ardley :smiley:
That skip was loaded above the load line-Iā€™dve tipped some off before moving it. I agree with posts about netting it, that wire wouldā€™ve shredded it in a gust of wind, or tangled up (Iā€™ve experienced similar with auto sheets).

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merc0447:
Id be keeping my distance :open_mouth:

Sheer Lazines :question: :question:

I rang a skippo firm up a couple of months back with the reg of one of his trucks just as a gentle reminder to remind his driver to ā€œsheet upā€.

Only after watching 1/2 a paving slab fly off as he came round a ā€˜miniā€™ roundabout, narrowly missed the car behind and luckily no one on the pavement :open_mouth:

iā€™ve also seen a 12ich long piece of rebar flicked up straight through someoneā€™s windscreen (javelin style :question: ) and embed itself in the passenger seat :open_mouth:
That doesnā€™t include crane ā€˜blocksā€™ ,winding handles and all sort of other stuff going through peoples engine blocks and windows.

Iā€™m off now to await the first comment to say it never happens :wink:

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Certainly looks dodgy, I guess he wasnā€™t going far which is why he took the risk :confused:

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I can appreciate what people mean about auto-sheets getting fouled up on the metal, but really and truly he should have had that load safer. I was following an artic tipper today carrying sugar beet and no net. I call that bloody idleness. In the way back when, when I worked on a farm 40 odd years ago, the beet wagon drivers told me they got fined Ā£15 plus 10 bob a beet dropped if they got caught, and that was a long time before auto-sheeters. :grimacing: That was a big pile of money then, probably about Ā£300 nowadays.

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How come skips dont have to be strapped but pallets of crisps inside a curtainsider must be in case they break through the curtain and land on top of a car squashing the occupants and killing them instantly :question: :confused:

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Before we had auto sheets, we had the pull over and buckle down type; In windy weather, an order would go out not to sheet for H & S reasons!

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And if youā€™re wondering how the non-truckers cope with such a thing - read this - corsasport.co.uk/board/viewt ā€¦ tid=582057

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CorsaSport? Hairdressers website.

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dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/vehicle ā€¦ hicles.pdf Makes an interesting read,

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Another option , could the driver not have refused to lift it on the grounds the load was not level - lots of people hiring skips seem to ignore the markers for maximum fill height

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Muckaway:
CorsaSport? Hairdressers website.

Tell them youā€™re a trucker and see how well you do with the stereotypes.

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Ian G:

Muckaway:
CorsaSport? Hairdressers website.

Tell them youā€™re a trucker and see how well you do with the stereotypes.

My sister used to be engaged to one of them; he bought a 1.4, wasted God knows what tarting up with a brick-kit, lowered it yet left the engine alone. He sold it for the same price as a bog standard one, and made my sister wipe the bottom of her shoes before she got inā€¦ :unamused: