On the traffic news recently there seems to me to be a fair few “shed loads” occurring on roundabouts etc…
Now with being the “driver’s responsibility” for the security of the load is it especially in this day and age an instant sacking from the employer if you loose your what you thought was a secure load on a roundabout etc? even if was something that happened that you couldn’t of foreseen but it’s still your responsibility
Or do they take the approach “it was an accident — be more careful next time”
Do the police ever press charges if no one was hurt?
cheers
CC
Cruise Control:
“shed loads”
Why are so many trucks loaded with sheds 
I know… TAXI !!!
Driving and road offences:
- Endorsable Fixed Penalty Offences - all of the following offences carry 3 Penalty Points:
- Dangerous parts
- Insecure load
- Dangerous load
- Using motor vehicle for an unsuitable purpose
- Defective brakes
- Defective steering
- Unsuitable tyre
- Tyre over/under inflated
- Tyre - cut in fabric
- Tyre - bulge or tear
- Tyre - ply or cord exposed
- Tyre - insufficient tread
- Defective structures of tyre on same axle
- Different structures of tyre on same axle
- Different tyres on different axles
- Failure to comply with Stop sign
- Failure to comply with double white lines (crossing or stopping)
- Failure to comply with traffic lights
- Failure to accord precedence to a zebra crossing
- Failure to comply with the indication given by a constable or traffic warden on traffic duty
- Stopping within the limits of a zebra crossing
- Stopping a vehicle in a zebra controlled area
- Failure to comply with a red light at a pelican crossing
- Failure to accord precedence to a pelican crossing
- Stopping on a pelican crossing
- Stopping within the approach to a pelican crossing
- Excess Speed (30mph)
- Excess Speed (40mph)
- Excess Speed (50mph)
- Excess Speed (60mph)
- Excess Speed (70mph)
- Excess Speed (Vehicle Class)
- Excess Speed (Passenger Carrying Vehicle)
- Excess Speed (Temporary) - road works
- Stopping vehicle on a motorway carriageway
- Reversing on the motorway
- Driving on the motorway hard shoulder
- Drive on the motorway central reservation/verge
- Provisional licence holder driving on the motorway
- Prohibited vehicle using offside lane of motorway
- Driving other than in accordance with a licence
- Motor cycle - excess number of passengers
- Motor cycle - passenger not sitting astride
- Leaving a motor vehicle in a dangerous position
- Use of a vehicle in a designated playstreet (2 points)
I was led to believe that the load does not even have to fall off the lorry and that a tipper driver can be done for it if his sheet leaks
I could do with a new shed…
By a strange coincidence, sheds are a very easy load to shed…
What about the diddy’s that drive skips without nets , maybe if they look in the mirror they’d see all the crap falling out all over the motorway 