robroy:
The-Snowman:
Cheers lads. I have the tiger feet song stuck in my head now!I bet you are stood in front of the mirror, thumbs in belt, doing the dance
Guilty as charged 
please tell me that there is someone on trucknet that is too young to remember Mud.
Bluey Circles:
please tell me that there is someone on trucknet that is too young to remember Mud.
I have heard about them and know the tigerfeet song but they are definitely before my time.
Can an O licence be altered by NIMBY complaints? The land next to our yard has got planning consent for a bungalow to be built. I know someone could move in and whinge about our lorries, digger working in the yard (plus the farmers tractors) etc, but can they whinge enough to have an o licence cut even if weâre green light with DVSA?
Bluey Circles:
please tell me that there is someone on trucknet that is too young to remember Mud.
I only know them because I listen to radio two, Iâm not that old really!
thanks for the reminder you lot , that flaming song is rattling round my head now and wonât go away , and yes iâm old enough to remember them as well .
Muckaway:
Can an O licence be altered by NIMBY complaints? The land next to our yard has got planning consent for a bungalow to be built. I know someone could move in and whinge about our lorries, digger working in the yard (plus the farmers tractors) etc, but can they whinge enough to have an o licence cut even if weâre green light with DVSA?
Possibly, the public have a lot of power nowadays. My last employers base was on a farm where some of the buildings next to the garage were converted to housing but we never had any complaints despite me working a lot of nights and sometimes starting the old Foden up at 10pm to build the air up and parking up again around 6 am. The local Police occasionally stopped me thinking I was nicking the truck though! Like you the yard was an operating centre before the housing was developed, no way would you get permission to have an operating centre if it was the other way round though.
Oh and I am FAR too young to remember MudâŚ
Pete.
Yes the mud on the road annoys me too. But other aspects I find worse. These house building companies are making massive profits by knowing every trick in the book to hoodwink their way through the planning process. ALL of these estates should have wheel wash facilities installed, but they manage to convince the local councils that the project just isnât âviableâ if they have to take similar measures to mitigate the impact on the surrounding area. What they really mean is that they can massage figures to prove that the estate will not return the profit level anticipated if they have to do whatever. This often means that the number of houses which are really needed in the area ie 2 bedrooms, get replaced with more 4 and 5 bedroom ones - which are way out of the price range of the local aspiring purchasers. These houses then get sold to the true nimbies who start objecting to whatever local employment sites there happen to be anywhere near.
Meanwhile their recent new customers are treated with utter contempt by the developer, being expected to live in a sea of mud, dust and fumes for however long it takes to finish the entire estate.
Those who live in the area or need to travel past the estate, have to put up with long delays, and temporary road surfaces, which both frequently disrupt the local bus service for often months on end, while an new access roundabout is installed and gas, water, sewage and electricity services are linked to the network.
The fact that most groundwork contractors build a road âoutâ of the site rather than a road âinâ doesnât help the mud situation either, I could never understand why they worked arse about face? 
Pete.
Muckaway:
Can an O licence be altered by NIMBY complaints? The land next to our yard has got planning consent for a bungalow to be built. I know someone could move in and whinge about our lorries, digger working in the yard (plus the farmers tractors) etc, but can they whinge enough to have an o licence cut even if weâre green light with DVSA?
A firm could be prosecuted under the Environmental Protection Act, if their business distressed anyone. Even if the business was there first. A previous employer of mine had to change their working hours, and install expensive sound barriers, after someone from a new housing estate complained the noise was upsetting them. Despite the company objecting to the housing development, as they could foresee problems.
Another example of the world going mad!
TheBear:
Concretejim:
albion1971:
Why would it make anyone laugh?
The mud is a danger to other road users especially the likes of motorcycles etc and of course children.
The person has a very valid point and the site should have a wheel wash for lorries leaving the site. Any driver that leaves that site spreading mud everywhere is leaving there selves wide open to prosecution and even jail in extreme circumstances.I was taught in my driving test that the only person at fault would be the car or motorbike driver.
I think it had something to do with using your eyes,common sense and driving to the conditions.
I hate people like this, there the same people who buy a house next to a race circuit and complain about noise and traffic.
Nearly as bad as the Queen having Windsor Castle built under Heathrows flight path and then moaning about the noise?
And so near the m4 - not to mention Slough. What was she thinking â â
eddie snax:
Iâm with the poster all the way, these Nimbyâs are a flaming pain in the arm pitOne day a knock on the door, it was a neighbour with a clip board, I thought whats a foot here. The long and short was, that the farm had applied to put up more poultry sheds, and some of the Incomers(residents) werenât happy. I just said its a farm what do you expect them to do, and refused to sign the petition against these proposals
Do you remember the fuss about the pig farm? loads of complaints about the potential smell, Building spoiling the view and trucks using the roads, but the farm was over a mile from the nearest house and the only house, off the main road, the trucks would have gone past was another farmer who had his own trucks, so wasnât that bothered. it got through panning and youâd never have known what the fuss was about once it was up and running.
Sorry but these nimby are right why should road going vehicle drive all over a dirty site being used as dump trucks then bring muck onto the public road,site not finished is not an excuse vehicles should have a clean firm are to discharge loads then it can be moved around site safe and powered with red diesel ,IT IS 2016 THE PUBLIC HAVE HAD ENOUGH,
Too many sites trying to be green by reusing crushed â â â â â â â â thatâs been dug up from one site and shipped to another. That or using demolition rubble thatâs been crushed on site that didnât have the dust screened out first. The best stuff to use is either clean stone or uncrushed rubble. When finished with it can be easily screened, crushed and recycled.
Fuse has a point, too many sites expect delivery trucks to be dumpers. Solar farms being the worst.
Muckaway:
Too many sites trying to be green by reusing crushed â â â â â â â â thatâs been dug up from one site and shipped to another. That or using demolition rubble thatâs been crushed on site that didnât have the dust screened out first. The best stuff to use is either clean stone or uncrushed rubble. When finished with it can be easily screened, crushed and recycled.
Fuse has a point, too many sites expect delivery trucks to be dumpers. Solar farms being the worst.
The bit about âdemolition rubbleâ Nathan has kept me in work a fair few times as the ârecycledâ rubble contained bonded asbestos, pricing one now for âtop soilâ on 4 year old houses with bonded in the gardens
A wheel wash on site will only work if they keep the water clean. Most are simply flooded shaker grids so all you do is take the previous trucksâ debris onto the road yourself, spread finer over a wider area.
On the other hand you get sites with wheelwashes that spray the dirty water over your mirrors and windscreen. I can never understand why wheelwashes are designed to do this. The wheels are at the bottom not the top.
To add to the mix you also get some right divs driving sweepers nowadays; When the tippers leave, the sweeper driverâs on break or â â â â â â â about down some side roadâŚ
âŚWhen actually sweeping some donât clean it out, just blow the dust out the top like Thomas the Tank engine.
Concretejim:
albion1971:
Concretejim:
albion1971:
Why would it make anyone laugh?
The mud is a danger to other road users especially the likes of motorcycles etc and of course children.
The person has a very valid point and the site should have a wheel wash for lorries leaving the site. Any driver that leaves that site spreading mud everywhere is leaving there selves wide open to prosecution and even jail in extreme circumstances.I was taught in my driving test that the only person at fault would be the car or motorbike driver.
I think it had something to do with using your eyes,common sense and driving to the conditions.
I hate people like this, there the same people who buy a house next to a race circuit and complain about noise and traffic.
I think you need to get your facts straight.
It is illegal to deposit mud on the road and those that do so leave themselves open to a range of offences.I hope nobody you know comes round a bend on a country road and is involved in a serious accident because of mud on the road. Check out some of these accidents before making silly comments.
Nothing to do with what they were taught on their test by the way.
I hate ignorance and arrogance and most that leave mud on the road are just that.I was born in the contryside, as were my family. Lets just say were used to there being a little bit of mud on the road from time to time. I dont see wheel washes being at every gate to a farm. Hence the âmud on roadâ signs.
Jesus a little bit of mud next to a building site/farm is normal.
It wasnt a silly comment, whose fault is it when a torrential rain storm hits and people still fly around at full pelt and cause a accident? Gods?
As for ignorance and arrogance, id just call it life.
I live in the country, have done for years and it is not always just a little mud as you say.It is usually thick and spread over a large area.
It is farmers that are the main culprits in our area.
I agree anyone that drives like an idiot deserves all they get but do not forget there are plenty inexperienced drivers on our roads that cannot cope in these situations.
Also driving in the dark can be lethal even well below the speed limit.
It is DANGEROUS and people have the right to complain.
Maybe if more complained about things we could have far safer roads.
I actually agree with you on this one Alby.
That mud should not be on the road. It should be jammed into your keyboard to stop your constant â â â â â â â â about driving standards.
Been motorcycling on the road without a helmet recently?
Come summer time theyâll all be crying about airborne dust from the combines and tractors making a noise through the night.
Then all the yokels holding up traffic en route to ploughing matches.
If the powers that be could push the safety angle to this site mess may be we could get a better deal as in central tipping points ie hard level ground bays for each material ect.This could be picked up or loaded into a dumper and taken exactly to the point where needed this would prevent site damage and injury to site workers the benefits to the site and all concerned would be a big plus .