We have to load the vehicles ourselves, as the load is our responsibility, they are all pretty well much the same to handle/drive. If we come across one that is different from the norm, then there is usually a driver on site to run us through the controls, for when we unload it.
Ben
Thanks, my Actros is plated for 44t (soon to be upgraded to 75t), 400hp and has 750,000km on the clock, still on origonal engine and gearbox
Yes, quite legal, will fall under STGO tax/types, the thing is as you GVW goes up and under most movement orders of that sort of weight, you have speed limits imposed, some of the loads we move, have had 30mph limits imposed on motorways
When I did that kind of work back in the 70s I always resisted police blandishments to exceed the speed rating of my little tyres with a ‘trolley’.
This was because we changed blowouts ourselves and I didn’t fancy lying on my back under the middle of a 70 odd ton weight swopping a middle wheel .
They hated us for it, ■■■■■■ is boring for jam sandwich cowboys, but I never had to change one of those wheels.
Things may be different now but folks like that didn’t carry spares of the special types we were running.
Either that or Econofreight were so Econominded that they preferred a tyre fitter they were already paying .
Now, I expect Rikki to jump in somewhere here, but they used to pay my 12 year old son as a second man
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