Boss & Driver:
have tried calling VOSA on 0300 123 9000 but cant get through
Ring your local goods vehicle testing station.
dft.gov.uk/vosa/contactus/vo … ffices.htm
Can you record the conversation and put it on youtube. I need a good laugh 
Who sold you this Transit. Arfur Daly?
So to sum up.
You moan about ferry companies charging you more than a car. Even though your bigger than a car.
You buy a vehicle without fully checking it out.
You buy a vehicle that was probably £2000 below market value.
You buy a vehicle that would be overloaded with anything other than a Fiat 126.
If you keep trying to run a business this way you will end up very broke or very locked up.
If you get away with it you have more chance of platting pee than going past another checkpoint without been pulled.
This is your very best hope if you manage to get it to a testing station in two pieces 
prmotors.biz/blog/uncategori … -mot-test/
Once it is scrapped, no one can touch you for it, they will probably overlook the overload too, thinking they have already saved your life.
From the query as to whether there is a vehicle auction (in wherever) it sounds like all you’re interested in is the wonga. Either scrap it or pay to get it repaired properly including all the advisories. It might be your family coming the other way when something breaks.
TonyS:
I’m hoping that this is a wind up, because, as presented, the OP is unlikely to be capable of running a tap, let alone a transport operation.If - God help us - this is on the level then, Go East Young Man; the export trade will be your friend. Either that or Bryant and May may be worth getting to know.
i may be wrong but isnt this the guy who went to the wrong stobarts yard then rang the agency on call day and night to get his own back? would suspect a wind up keyboard warrior if its the same guy if not apologies!
Option 1. Scrap it & lose £500. Then you have no vehicle & maybe £500.
Personally I think you’d be very lucky to get £500 scrap value. Scrap is no longer £200 a tonne, more like £130. I’d reckon on £300 max.
Option 2. Spend, say £600 to get it back on the road. You now have a roadworthy vehicle worth £1,000.(hopefully) So, its the same £500 - £700 loss BUT you also now have a tool with which to earn that money back.
Get 3 quotes for the welding repairs.
This cannot be anything more than a wind-up. If not then surely the op is Stevie Wonder in disguise.
If it is genuine and you do get the transit done up, sell it cause if you dont youll very quickly be on first name terms with every vosa bod in the country. You might aswell put a sign on the back saying please pull me up.
For £1000 I’m expecting Mk5 Transit so a 2.5D, running that at 30% overloaded I would expect it to have the performance of a Sloth after 3 bottles of sleeping pills (The one I drive is bad enough loaded!)
As for the rotting cross members, ours has done 300k now and nothing more than surface rust, I take it you didn’t like the ferry costs so drove it through the ocean?
the utility company i am on hire to asked me to go and grab the load off of one of their transit tippers at hatfield weighbridge -was a shade under 2 tons overweight!! driver got a £400 fine.
andrew.s:
the utility company i am on hire to asked me to go and grab the load off of one of their transit tippers at hatfield weighbridge -was a shade under 2 tons overweight!! driver got a £400 fine.
If someone overloads their vehicle by 30% (don’t claim you didn’t know, you’d feel it) they should do everyone a favour and get a job well away from transport.
Have you thought about becoming a traveller?
andrew.s:
the utility company i am on hire to asked me to go and grab the load off of one of their transit tippers at hatfield weighbridge -was a shade under 2 tons overweight!! driver got a £400 fine.
2 TON over? did the stupid sod think it’s called a 3.5 tonner because it will CARRY 3.5 ton?
Muckaway:
andrew.s:
Have you thought about becoming a traveller?
I had a job offer for one the other day (please see my other post) but turned it down
Thanks to wheel nuts big idea
I might have a buyer for it
mucker85:
andrew.s:
the utility company i am on hire to asked me to go and grab the load off of one of their transit tippers at hatfield weighbridge -was a shade under 2 tons overweight!! driver got a £400 fine.2 TON over? did the stupid sod think it’s called a 3.5 tonner because it will CARRY 3.5 ton?
This is a very strong held belief amongst builders/labourers. Trading Standards bloke told our weighbridge man he’s lost count of the arguments he’s had with pickup drivers/owners regarding this. Had a tree surgeon with a greedy boarded transit tipper once that wanted 1t of shingle; Put a ton on him then he argued that my weigher was crap as when he carries wood bark, a full load is barely a ton. I filled him up and bent the chassis 
Muckaway:
mucker85:
andrew.s:
the utility company i am on hire to asked me to go and grab the load off of one of their transit tippers at hatfield weighbridge -was a shade under 2 tons overweight!! driver got a £400 fine.2 TON over? did the stupid sod think it’s called a 3.5 tonner because it will CARRY 3.5 ton?
This is a very strong held belief amongst builders/labourers. Trading Standards bloke told our weighbridge man he’s lost count of the arguments he’s had with pickup drivers/owners regarding this. Had a tree surgeon with a greedy boarded transit tipper once that wanted 1t of shingle; Put a ton on him then he argued that my weigher was crap as when he carries wood bark, a full load is barely a ton. I filled him up and bent the chassis
i have a little bit of sympathy with the blokes who overloaded it as they asked their company to send the grab(me)to clear their spoil-they are slablayers- and they were told grab wasnt available ,and to chuck it on their motor.
they both know they should have refused,but thought they’d take a chance just to get job done(and didnt want the usual “if you dont wont to do it then ■■■■ off” which is common in this sort of work)
incidentally the police asked them to go back on the bridge after i had cleared the muck off them,with both of them in the transit and all their tools they had a payload allowance of 200kg!
Does anyone think this could be a bloke from London Colney whose family are already in the recovery business? He has had a bit of time on his hands lately
I just wondered who the technician may be who has decided it will cost 500 brick for a cross member. Does Neli ring a bell with anyone?
There are quite a few cross members that need help.
I do not believe anyone would actually do any of these things that B&D suggests 
Wheel Nut:
Does anyone think this could be a bloke from London Colney whose family are already in the recovery business? He has had a bit of time on his hands lately
If you check out some of his early posts you will note that my first ever response to him assumed exactly that
Wheel Nut:
Does anyone think this could be a bloke from London Colney whose family are already in the recovery business? He has had a bit of time on his hands lately
now now you know who I am we met on the train that day remember
Muckaway:
Have you thought about becoming a traveller?
hay do you remember that poster who got banned from hear not so long ago
cant think of his name arrrr yes the diesel fairy
he claimed to be a traveler
he was a real troll and his posts where funny as fo fo; even more so then that silly carton of stobarts grave that I found somewhere and re posted to my posting about first shift at stobers gone up the…