AsphaltAnimal:
My c+e instructors just told me they have lost the contract for the north, not sure if he is trying to our me off applying or if it’s true anyone know?
Yep - Pure Gold 
mucker85:
Winseer:
Gembo:
All wheel nut / bolt indicators where fitted must all be pointing at each other not the wheel rim or wheel centre.
VOSA will issue a fine if they are not pointing at each other when fitted.
I’ve been doing it that way for years, so I tentatively suggest that this isn’t ■■■■■■■■…
I would guess they either need to point to each other( 1 to 2, 3 to 4, 5 to 6 etc, at the next one ( 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4 etc) or all pointing to the centre.
If you don’t know where they were pointing how do you know if they have moved?
Well, the motors been MOT’d 6 times since 07 and ive been stopped at roadside checks twice in 4 years and the indicators have always been fitted this way on the front wheels. The indicators all point to the rim as if they pointed at each other, you cant see them as they are obscured by a flange type thing that are on Merc’s and are fitted using 2 of wheel nuts.
Since VOSA take no notice of these indicators anyway, the above advice i was given by a pretty dumb (has to be said) worzel tyre fitter i know is complete ■■■■■■■■.
In the summer time windows must be kept closed unless the driver is wearing a BEE KEEPERS HAT THAT CONFORMS TO EU STANDARDS.
Mmtm that Asda are opening a new super depot on Kingsway, Rochdale
4 on 4 off £35k a year
Heard an absolute belter today.
Well the agency had me headhunted recently, told they had to have their best driver at a location I wasn’t allowed to tell to anyone about. I wasn’t to fill out a timesheet but they’d just pay me £150 for a 5 hour shift and call it done.
Basically it was the local hospital and I was only ruddy driving ambulances all night, got the uniform and everything, had to go to ‘shouts’ where they knew the patient could walk into the back of the ambulance and I wasn’t allowed to get out of the drivers seat. Had to blue light it all the way to each shout and back to the hospital. Through red lights, wrong side of the road and everything.
Said I was so good they want me back next week too
Thing is the guy was a really nice bloke, well presented, did a really good job and seemed very normal, the only thing he said that was out of sorts was the above.
I mean, it’s obviously total bow-locks isn’t it, I’m the agencies best driver
Mark Dixon now works at maccy D’s Drive thru in Milton Keynes 
My mate says it’s compulsory for cyclists to give left turning waggons a wide berth and not sneak up the inside of them at traffic lights.
Scarab:
Heard an absolute belter today.Well the agency had me headhunted recently, told they had to have their best driver at a location I wasn’t allowed to tell to anyone about. I wasn’t to fill out a timesheet but they’d just pay me £150 for a 5 hour shift and call it done.
Basically it was the local hospital and I was only ruddy driving ambulances all night, got the uniform and everything, had to go to ‘shouts’ where they knew the patient could walk into the back of the ambulance and I wasn’t allowed to get out of the drivers seat. Had to blue light it all the way to each shout and back to the hospital. Through red lights, wrong side of the road and everything.
Said I was so good they want me back next week too
Thing is the guy was a really nice bloke, well presented, did a really good job and seemed very normal, the only thing he said that was out of sorts was the above.
I mean, it’s obviously total bow-locks isn’t it, I’m the agencies best driver
It sounds ■■■■■■■■… but you never know. When I worked for the NHS we sometimes had a request from the hospital to have a driver on standby for organ transplants. We normally used our own drivers and we had a magnetic blue light for the roof in case they needed it - On one occasion in ten years I had to use an agency driver for the job because of holidays/sickness etc. He came in for a briefing at 6pm and sat in the porter’s room until midnight or so. Then he drove the 15 miles (without using the blue light) from our hospital to one in Birmingham with a nice chilled kidney in a coolbox.
Another agency driver was horrified to find that the red plastic bags that he had been transporting in the back of his van were amputated limbs going to the incinerator.
MMTM,there was a nasty vosa man called Ginge that would stop the lorries by walking in front of them,a group of drivers rounded up some young lads and chipped in with a fund of £100 to buy some eggs and flour and pelt the vosa van,much to the laughing of the folks in the pub looking out of the window.
Had a chat with a driver last week who actually said “My Mate Told Me” that he had been done by VOSA ten quid a turn for not winding his landing legs properly…
Instead of counting to ten and thinking ‘Oh well…’ like I normally do I decided to try and help this fella see the wood from the trees.
First of all I asked ‘What offence was commited?’ while pointing out that VOSA cannot give fines in ten pound increments especially on the arbitary turn of a mechanical device.
This made the driver think but what really focused his mind was the fine and three endorsement points he could of got for not securing his winding handle…
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MMTM vosa are hiring a fleet of helicopters to fly over HGV`s with all the latest tech to snoop on your tacho inringments,it will be equipped with a net to chuck over drivers running away,and a fury razor blade German Shepherd on board.
MMTM told me that TNT Newsfast vehicles had devices which changed traffic lights to green (only between midnight and 5am) fitted behind the front bumper, so that News International’s papers would get to the shops first.
Can’t wait for Lord Justice Leveson to ask about that one…
MMTM that the Child Support Agency operate on weighbridges,checking National Insurance numbers to get money off you for those drunken one night stands that you cant remember what you did,or with who.
Bogus police cars in Portugal.
postby toby1234abc » Sun May 06, 2012 11:15 am
Looking back,i think i have been done,my mate told me,the real copper was on a bender,and his mate stole the uniforms and the keys to the traffic car,the GNR Brigado Transito,or the Guardia National de Republica.
I was nearly done for running on a so called holiday,with all the trucks thundering past,i emptied the cab contents on the road side,he got the hint after an hour of argueing,and i must pay.
Overheight JCB`s for Motivo,pay £20 coffee money,or the firm would have to pay the official fine of £100.
I should have asked for ID,too late now.
I wonder if the same thing happened in the rural parts of Spain,there was a dodgy weigh bridge in the forest road,Bordeaux way,think they did jail in the end.
Sorry, Toby, you will have to go a long way to beat this MMTM story you put in euro thread lol, you gave me a great laugh
toby1234abc:
Didnt a foreign driver once try to get on a ferry with not declaring adr,he went to another port,of which they were warned of,big fine for the driver and the firm,maritime law,as the captain would have no idea of the load if it went up in flames on the ship.
Another classic
m4rky:
toby1234abc:
Didnt a foreign driver once try to get on a ferry with not declaring adr,he went to another port,of which they were warned of,big fine for the driver and the firm,maritime law,as the captain would have no idea of the load if it went up in flames on the ship.Another classic
That’s actually true. I remember it being in Commercial Motor. If I remember rightly he tried to get on DFDS Dunkirk but they refused as he didn’t have the right paperwork so he went to Calais and didn’t declare it. I think he actually got on the boat but got caught out in Dover.
switchlogic:
m4rky:
toby1234abc:
Didnt a foreign driver once try to get on a ferry with not declaring adr,he went to another port,of which they were warned of,big fine for the driver and the firm,maritime law,as the captain would have no idea of the load if it went up in flames on the ship.Another classic
That’s actually true. I remember it being in Commercial Motor. If I remember rightly he tried to get on DFDS Dunkirk but they refused as he didn’t have the right paperwork so he went to Calais and didn’t declare it. I think he actually got on the boat but got caught out in Dover.
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I put the truth on my own thread
A (traffic) copper once told me that he pulled me because I was driving an HGV through a 7.5t limit. When I pointed out that the vehicle was indeed plated for 7.49t and surely he could tell that from the general mien of the vehicle without stopping me, he replied: “well yeah, but sometimes the tail-lift puts them over mate” 
He then got back in his car and drove off.
You go through an 18t weight limit with a 6 wheeler aslong as the lift axle is up.
If youre running empty it is an offence to have your middle axle up if your unit is a 6x2