Straw

Do people who cart this stuff actually have anything left to deliver at the end of their journey, or is most of it wedged in my ■■■■■■■ grille??
:angry:

There was a piece in our local paper that I thought was absolute ■■■■ about three years ago, saying a truck fire was caused by loose straw stuck in the front of a truck …be careful you dont catch fire ! Hahaha.
Or are you one of those clean freaks who polishes everything daily on your pride and joy and it drives you insane , or perhaps you drive for Stobbies and it will effect you “clean truck bonus” ?

Its just some poor Carrot cruncher trying to earn a living like the rest of the drivers on the road !
Tin hat firmly strapped on awaiting incoming !!!

Stobart mentioned in a post about straw. I’m impressed

It’s OK, we got him stopped

straw spill.jpg

kitbuilder123:
Stobart mentioned in a post about straw. I’m impressed

We try to please…Ourselves, sod the rest !
And I think it was my 500 th post.

Trukkertone:
It’s OK, we got him stopped

That’s ridiculous, I would almost go as far as saying, That’s the last straw :open_mouth:

I’ve always been curious why VOSA aren’t more interested in straw carriers!

I mean, technically it’s a VERY insecure load?

My brother does straw every day. The first motorway bridge trims the top, then it’s happy days.
i’m not kidding either. :laughing:

In the good old days it would have been roped and sheeted.

kitbuilder123:
Stobart mentioned in a post about straw. I’m impressed

They were hauling hay in curtainsiders to Ireland a month or two ago, and lots of it.

Javiatrix:
I’ve always been curious why VOSA aren’t more interested in straw carriers!

I mean, technically it’s a VERY insecure load?

Could they prove it’s insecure if it hasn’t fallen off :confused:

It has fallen off. OK not all of it but if you’re carrying 10,000 bricks and you lose 20, its an insecure load, same principle applies!

I wonder how they get away with it too, you can always tell if ones ahead off you because you can follow there trail. Problem is with our strict h&s bs in this country there argument would be how am i suppose to climbe on that lot to sheet it over. Off course vosa could do them as either way it’s an insecure way yet h&s guidelines would probably forbid any reasonable way to climb and sheet it up. Damned if you do damned if you don’t.

Whats wrong with throwing a rope or two over and attaching said sheet to other end and pulling sheet on.

snowman77:
Whats wrong with throwing a rope or two over and attaching said sheet to other end and pulling sheet on.

Carrot cruncher intelligence perhaps ?

Or perhaps there is a good reason that an ex tanker driver does not know !

I’ve often wondered if we could weigh the total lost every year from these wagons what it would amount to :open_mouth:

I used to park in Andover a lot. A car park that used to allow trucks overnight, great spot just off the A303 & right in the town centre. It was closed after a straw wagon caught fire one night & burned a 3 ft crater in the car park!

snowman77:
Whats wrong with throwing a rope or two over and attaching said sheet to other end and pulling sheet on.

Apart from getting a corner caught up over 15ft above you, the sheet weighing too much and being too big for one bloke to haul up from the ground and over the load… Not a lot. Try it, let us all know how you get on!

Karl86:
I wonder how they get away with it too, you can always tell if ones ahead off you because you can follow there trail. Problem is with our strict h&s bs in this country there argument would be how am i suppose to climbe on that lot to sheet it over. Off course vosa could do them as either way it’s an insecure way yet h&s guidelines would probably forbid any reasonable way to climb and sheet it up. Damned if you do damned if you don’t.

you wont find that BS going on in the middle of a field :wink:

4whatitsworth:

Javiatrix:
I’ve always been curious why VOSA aren’t more interested in straw carriers!

I mean, technically it’s a VERY insecure load?

Could they prove it’s insecure if it hasn’t fallen off :confused:

If vosa thought they could get away with doing the drivers of these loads of straw, I think they would have tried to by know don’t you think? But you could get done for leaving all the lose straw on the trailer after you have tipped your load and let it blow all over the road when you set off!
The only time you will see a load fully sheeted is if its going on a ferry, and only small bales will have the top of the load sheeted.

kitbuilder123:
Stobart mentioned in a post about straw. I’m impressed

They did start off in agriculture apparently though fella