On Friday morning a colleage of mine was stopped at a VOSA checkpoint and the guy took the tachos and they did all the vehicel checks etc
When they pulled him in the VOSA guy said good morning how are you ?
My mate said I would be a lot better if you hadn,t stopped me i am on my way back to the yard.
The guy said we will try not to keep you I can see you have been out all week
When my mate asked him what he meant by that he just went bright red
Now the funny thing about that is that the driver is a day driver not a tramper he just looks a bit scruffy and has body odour smells
My mate was talking about reporting him because when they came back to him with his tacho charts the other guy said at least the tachos are clean mate off yer go
Nice to see VOSA have sense of smell. Erm i mean humour.
VOSA officers can be a bit thick though.
Three of ours got pulled. They checked the cards of the first. He was 4 hours short on his weekly rest so he was parked up for 45 hours. They didn’t bother checking the cards of the other 2. They just weighed them and let them go.
How lucky was that?
If they used a bit of grey matter, the word “Probability” would spring to mind.
limeyphil:
Nice to see VOSA have sense of smell. Erm i mean humour.
VOSA officers can be a bit thick though.
Three of ours got pulled. They checked the cards of the first. He was 4 hours short on his weekly rest so he was parked up for 45 hours. They didn’t bother checking the cards of the other 2. They just weighed them and let them go.
How lucky was that?
If they used a bit of grey matter, the word “Probability” would spring to mind.
That is why they use Morris Dancers as VOSA staff, they get a result and go off skipping and holding hands
Got pulled the other week in an empty tanker, for a weight check. Midlift was up and axle on trailer yet they didnt believe I was empty, they had to tap the tank with rubber mallet, before letting me on my way!
limeyphil:
Nice to see VOSA have sense of smell. Erm i mean humour.
VOSA officers can be a bit thick though.
Three of ours got pulled. They checked the cards of the first. He was 4 hours short on his weekly rest so he was parked up for 45 hours. They didn’t bother checking the cards of the other 2. They just weighed them and let them go.
How lucky was that?
If they used a bit of grey matter, the word “Probability” would spring to mind.
I thought VOSA only parked us foreigners up for hours infringements such as the one mentioned - and took perverse pleasure in making Brit drivers lifes hell for the smallest misdemeanour.
I drive for the paddies, So it’s the same as being treated like a foreigner.
The authorities in the UK are so obsessed about being accused of racism that they discriminate against the Brits. How racist is that?
ps. Theres a topic on euro driving forum you may be able to help me with.
youre right we dont have to stop, but i knew it was Vosa, and knew they wanted to weigh me, at the time I had 2 axle unit with 1 axle 30’ trailer plated at 28 tonnes,
But i also knew i only had 5 bags on and thought it might be underweight
This was back in the 80s though and i now drive a tipper so im more worried about being pulled nowadays
Back in the 70’s when I worked for a firm that made plastic drinking cups for vending machines, my wagon was a clapped out Leyland Mastiff pulling a 36ft box van trailer and I got pulled by the Ministry (pre VOSA days) into the weighbridge on the back road around Salisbury coming from Wilton towards Southampton (I think it was in a feedstuffs or agricultural merchants). The Ministry man asked me “are you loaded driver?” to which I replied " yes - up to the roof and right back to the back doors, full load". When he said " OK, pull onto the weighbridge then" I made it struggle a bit by pulling away in a high gear. You should have seen his face when the scales showed that I only had a few tons on board. When he then said “You told me you had a full load on, yet you have’nt got much weight on” I replied " You didn’t ask me what I was carrying, you only asked if I was loaded and I truthfully told you that I was". As our wagons at the time were just plain black and white cabs with no signwriting on them and the trailers were (usually dirty) unpainted aluminium he had no idea what I was carrying. As you can imagine, he didn’t like being shown up so he went through my log book with a fine-tooth comb, but he couldn’t find anything wrong there and the wheel tappers could’nt find any defect on the wagon (although they gave it a good going over) so I went on my way smiling.
