In todays Wiltshire Times,it mentions a story about Bradford on Avon and it’s Lorry Watch.
Shop keepers have now joined up to note trucks breaking the 18ton bridge limit.
BOA Big Lorry Watcher Stephanie Ridout is disgusted with a local tipper firm that has been fined several times.
She says “They should be ashamed,they are local and should know better.”
Are tippers over 18 ton?How do the shops get their goods delivered?
Hopefully they won’t and end up wallowing in their own mess and go out of business and the village will become extinct!
Wow! I feel a lot better now
They should adopt the system that Eyam (the Plague Village in Derbyshire) used to stop the disease spreading, all goods were left outside the village boundary and the population collected them in person. That might just work out OK for both parties?
Pete.
The local firm that got fined several times uses trucks under 18tons.
Two axled tippers.
This Stephanie Riddout must really hate trucks.
The paper printed a list of hauliers that went through the courts.
The town was built for horse and cart traffic.
Maybe they should return to the Medieval times with manure on the roads and ban all vehicles.
toby1234abc:
In todays Wiltshire Times,it mentions a story about Bradford on Avon and it’s Lorry Watch.
Shop keepers have now joined up to note trucks breaking the 18ton bridge limit.
BOA Big Lorry Watcher Stephanie Ridout is disgusted with a local tipper firm that has been fined several times.
She says “They should be ashamed,they are local and should know better.”
Are tippers over 18 ton?How do the shops get their goods delivered?
I doubt many shops get their goods delivered on a tipper
To be honest I don’t see why people have such a problem with village folk looking after their environment, I wish some of the people in my area cared so much about the area they live in
My mrs has a shop on a one-way street closed to all vehicles from 1000 to 1800 with a rising bollard at one end. Quite often, a Tomorrow Not Today 7.5tonner reverses, through No Entry signs and pedestrians, no banksman, up the street during the closed period to deliver a parcel to one of the shops, despite loading bays provided round both corners. Ok if she phones his gaffer?
Is that in Sherbourne Dorset that has raised bollards.?
windrush:
They should adopt the system that Eyam (the Plague Village in Derbyshire) used to stop the disease spreading, all goods were left outside the village boundary and the population collected them in person. That might just work out OK for both parties?Pete.
They’d need a lot of vinegar to dip a plasma tv screen in though Pete.
windrush:
They should adopt the system that Eyam (the Plague Village in Derbyshire) used to stop the disease spreading, all goods were left outside the village boundary and the population collected them in person. That might just work out OK for both parties?Pete.
That sounds a brilliant idea for preventing the spread of plague
Let everyone who has the plague go outside the boundary and meet people who don’t have the plague
I have no time for these busybody types who suddenly appoint themselves the law, but…
Would it not just be a better idea for offending lorry drivers to pay attention to the signs that are clearly located on the way into Bradford-on-Avon and follow the diversion to avoid the bridge, rather than thinking the limit on it doesn’t apply to them?
Don’t see peoples problem on here with community schemes like the Lorry Watch scheme in BOA. Fact of the matter is, the bridge is not suitable for constant pounding from HGVs and the town itself isn’t suitable or high volumes of heavy traffic either. I agree with the weight limit and it does need enforcing. Maybe they are sad, but better for drivers to have the old codgers writing down registration plates so a letter can be sent out, than a copper stood there dishing out fines.
rob22888:
Don’t see peoples problem on here with community schemes like the Lorry Watch scheme in BOA. Fact of the matter is, the bridge is not suitable for constant pounding from HGVs and the town itself isn’t suitable or high volumes of heavy traffic either. I agree with the weight limit and it does need enforcing. Maybe they are sad, but better for drivers to have the old codgers writing down registration plates so a letter can be sent out, than a copper stood there dishing out fines.
It’s not just letters though - some companies (and drivers) are getting fined as well. bradfordonavon.com/archives/12548
Ah I understand now, I presumed it was delivery lorries that they had an issue with. So if there is an 18 ton limit any vehicles over that weight that are ‘through traffic’ SHOULD find an alternative route, no excuses, end of, cannot blame the villagers for naming and shaming really! I assume that buses/coaches over 18 ton are also excluded from using the bridge, no double standards in place?
Pete.
just why anybody would want to take anything bigger than a pram through that god forsaken village is beyond me!
green456:
windrush:
They should adopt the system that Eyam (the Plague Village in Derbyshire) used to stop the disease spreading, all goods were left outside the village boundary and the population collected them in person. That might just work out OK for both parties?Pete.
That sounds a brilliant idea for preventing the spread of plague
Let everyone who has the plague go outside the boundary and meet people who don’t have the plague
The idea was to avoid close contact. Difficult to achieve if a merchant etc entered the village. So the merchant would leave the goods at a pre-arranged location outside the village. The money to pay for his goods (the cash was soaked in vinegar, as that was thought to prevent the disease spreading) was left in a suitable receptacle at the drop point. There was no meeting of outsiders.
malcolmj:
just why anybody would want to take anything bigger than a pram through that god forsaken village is beyond me!
The signage isn’t great and was knocked over for a while recently. I get the impression it’s a problem they don’t really want solving as it’s filling their empty lives. No-one would take an artic through as a shortcut.
I also think when they started it the volunteers didn’t realise just how big a lorries are permitted to pass through and imagined they would be able to do away with them entirely.
They fine artics when they run through BOA,as the driver assumes he is under the weight limit if the unit and trailer weigh 17tons when empty.
They count the axles and fine you if empty.
toby1234abc:
In todays Wiltshire Times,it mentions a story about Bradford on Avon and it’s Lorry Watch.
Shop keepers have now joined up to note trucks breaking the 18ton bridge limit.
BOA Big Lorry Watcher Stephanie Ridout is disgusted with a local tipper firm that has been fined several times.
She says “They should be ashamed,they are local and should know better.”
Are tippers over 18 ton?How do the shops get their goods delivered?
SerIously,is there such a publication as the Wiltcestershire times?
In other news,a cat was ran over twice in Penhill today
All the signs were knocked over? Or just the ones on the bridge itself? There are several advance warning signs on all major approach roads, plus a few more as you get further into the town.
In other news.Farmer Rees Smith of Tadley Acres was arrested today for tossing his wellie five metres over the line in the boot tossing finals at Compton on Bedley.
He was released on bail and drove his baler back on the M4 in the 3rd lane.
When re-arrested he was covered in baler twine and smelt of wine.