Nah mate, can’t remember now, possibly CEVA’s. Was a proper dirty job.
I keep a hurricane lamp - just in case it’s windy 
mike68:
The latest V.O.S.A scheme is if you are stopped for having a blown headlight bulb or similar, they plug a laptop into your truck and can tell how long it’s been out, they then compare this to your tachograph and are able to prove that you started your journey without attempting to rectify the fault. Resulting in a fixed penalty of £60, this must be true a man in a waiting room told me.
They can also peg your tacho data to a map and check if you have been speeding resulting in another fixed penalty if you have
Law or not law, it’s a sensible and inteligent thing to do. Having found out the disadvantages of not having one in the past has taught me that in the past.
During really cold weather the jaws on the fith wheel can stick an when you hook up even after you have performed a ‘tug test’ they may not be fully closed, I speak from experience, the partially locked jaws can slip open when travelling and you loose your trailer ! Luckily in my case it was an empty box van and it only dropped on to the chassis just behind the fith wheel before I hit the brakes and saved it so I was lucky.
Without fail … I now look at the jaws if they can be seen to make sure they are fully locked and in the dark without a torch you just can’t see and if you lads in the UK are thinking ‘How can we check this when most trailers are so close coupled and side panels etc prevent me getting under ?’ it’s as simple as moving slowly to an area you can turn your truck 45 degree’s so that the jaws are visible.
mike68:
The latest V.O.S.A scheme is if you are stopped for having a blown headlight bulb or similar, they plug a laptop into your truck and can tell how long it’s been out, they then compare this to your tachograph and are able to prove that you started your journey without attempting to rectify the fault. Resulting in a fixed penalty of £60, this must be true a man in a waiting room told me.
billybigrig:
mike68:
The latest V.O.S.A scheme is if you are stopped for having a blown headlight bulb or similar, they plug a laptop into your truck and can tell how long it’s been out, they then compare this to your tachograph and are able to prove that you started your journey without attempting to rectify the fault. Resulting in a fixed penalty of £60, this must be true a man in a waiting room told me.
was this man Polish ? … we have a Polish guy who works with us who can spin yarns like that too.
That’s some serious technology there.
We use a Texa machine, it tells us what the fault code is, all the conditions the engine was operating at when that fault occured (rpm, speed, temp etc). But it doesn’t tell us WHEN it was lodged timewise.
Think someone is exaggerating a bit!
wilbur:
I reckon this should be in the bull[zb]-I-have-heard thread, but the current HGV Direct catalogue claims ‘it is now law to have a torch in your cab’.What law is this? The only things we could come up with were ADR (which needs a torch I think) and a bit of vague stuff about doing proper walkaround checks.
Or is it just a [zb] attempt to sell more torches?
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is it possible that Ronald Day was dyslexic and misread that advert
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Red Squirrel:
‘…On the evening of January 27th … there was something wrong … The driver wasn’t found to be negligent …’
An innocent driver 
Surely some mistake 
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Useless fact, if you are going to break down, do it on a roundabout, the guarantee is that they will be lit by streetlamps 
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mike68:
The latest V.O.S.A scheme is if you are stopped for having a blown headlight bulb or similar, they plug a laptop into your truck and can tell how long it’s been out, they then compare this to your tachograph and are able to prove that you started your journey without attempting to rectify the fault. Resulting in a fixed penalty of £60, this must be true a man in a waiting room told me.They can also peg your tacho data to a map and check if you have been speeding resulting in another fixed penalty if you have
Having consulted several active VOSA roadside officials, I can legitimately confirm the above to be:
A) ■■■■■■■■ and
B) ■■■■■■■■.
cieranc:
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mike68:
The latest V.O.S.A scheme is if you are stopped for having a blown headlight bulb or similar, they plug a laptop into your truck and can tell how long it’s been out, they then compare this to your tachograph and are able to prove that you started your journey without attempting to rectify the fault. Resulting in a fixed penalty of £60, this must be true a man in a waiting room told me.They can also peg your tacho data to a map and check if you have been speeding resulting in another fixed penalty if you have
Having consulted several active VOSA roadside officials, I can legitimately confirm the above to be:
I definately reckon it’s what you confirmed the above to be. I also reckon this business about thier being a new law (apart from adr regs) about keeping a torch in your cab belongs in the same category. (there may be older ones though…)
Red Squirrel:
I just thought I’d better add that the word plaintiff is legal jargon for complainant.
That’s true RS, but there are also other legal words for the same thing like Applicant and Appellant to denote who has brought a case before a court. The use of the relevant word depends on the type of court.
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Well the HGV Direct Ltd - Talk Parts Issue 8 (PDF) does have it in quotes on page 5. Just like they quote on page 1: ‘Even Miss Santa shops with HGV Direct’
Me thinks not.
