always ask for ID .i was doing a roadworks job a couple of years ago on a weekend,and some jobsworth from the council/highways turned up doing his nut because the signs/barriers weren’t quite right.
we asked to see his ID and it was out of date by six months-he got told to eff right off out of it!!!
he went mental but didn’t have a leg to stand on 
Harry Monk:
mc thackeray:
Re: the ministry, the cartel, the gulag, the Ochlocracy (the mob), the gestapo
What ever title you want to call them
Yes fascism is back and hear to stay and drivers wont unite so heil hitler and bolex to you allI never realised they were a political organisation.
Dont have to be a politician to be a fascist aristocratic
You just have to work alongside for them 
How to recognise a DVSA officer
DVSA officers wear yellow visibility jackets with either the VOSA or DVSA logo, and they’ll always carry a DVSA warrant card.Their vehicles are marked with a black and yellow print on the side and either a VOSA or DVSA logo on the bonnet.
raymundo:
Typical of the modern day steering wheel attendant, can drive a keyboard but not a lorry…
+1…god almighty…how pedantic can you get…a vacuum cleaner is still referred to as a hoover.vosa can be called whaqtever gobstick name it wants to be called this week or next week,its still vosa irrespective of what the beancounters want it to be called…grade a…class1 …fanny. 
GOIN QUOIN:
I pulled on Hartshead Moor Services Westbound at 1200 today. I hadnt even switched the engine off and there was two VOSA chappies stood by my door.They were walking around the services with their toffee hammers doing spot checks. They had parked their Mini by the steps and were prowling about, no VOSA car an ordinary Mini.So beware peeps look out for a little black Mini parked in Truck area.
I am unsure what the issue here is… can you enlighten me? As far as I can see the department set up to enforce current legislation, around haulage, are at a place where hauliers are known to be at, all seems fairly logical to me, and as everyone using this forum runs 100% legit their presence at a place where you might visit should be welcomed- they may catch out a few cowboys who are undercutting your work and driving your wages down .
Rikki-UK:
GOIN QUOIN:
I pulled on Hartshead Moor Services Westbound at 1200 today. I hadnt even switched the engine off and there was two VOSA chappies stood by my door.They were walking around the services with their toffee hammers doing spot checks. They had parked their Mini by the steps and were prowling about, no VOSA car an ordinary Mini.So beware peeps look out for a little black Mini parked in Truck area.I am unsure what the issue here is… can you enlighten me? As far as I can see the department set up to enforce current legislation, around haulage, are at a place where hauliers are known to be at, all seems fairly logical to me, and as everyone using this forum runs 100% legit their presence at a place where you might visit should be welcomed- they may catch out a few cowboys who are undercutting your work and driving your wages down .
Yeah whats wrong with fellas pulling up in a Mini wandering around the services with a hammer looking to give trucks a once over ? 
According to VOSA/DVSA their vehicles are readily distinguishable Galaxys in Battenburg livery. I’d tell them to defer the test, ring the gaffers number on the side to book a test and then get out the way quick incase i was a victim of some scam !! But thats me !! Certainley wouldn’t be letting fellas in a Mini with hammers go over my truck !!
dieseldog999:
raymundo:
Typical of the modern day steering wheel attendant, can drive a keyboard but not a lorry…+1…god almighty…how pedantic can you get…a vacuum cleaner is still referred to as a hoover.vosa can be called whaqtever gobstick name it wants to be called this week or next week,its still vosa irrespective of what the beancounters want it to be called…grade a…class1 …fanny.
Rikki-UK:
I am unsure what the issue here is… can you enlighten me? As far as I can see the department set up to enforce current legislation, around haulage, are at a place where hauliers are known to be at, all seems fairly logical to me, and as everyone using this forum runs 100% legit their presence at a place where you might visit should be welcomed- they may catch out a few cowboys who are undercutting your work and driving your wages down .
Some people hear are trying to make a point that there is a scam going on
But dont realy see any logic to it myself
none whatsoever…vosa is vosa no matter what you want to call them .if there in private cars,or apache gunships,there still the vostapo and best avoided at all costs unless your a squeaky clean Tosco type plobber,then it dosent really matter…apparently theres no cowboys on here anyway,so it should only be me again, 
dieseldog999:
apparently theres no cowboys on here anyway,so it should only be me again,
At least your honest about it!
Rikki-UK:
and as everyone using this forum runs 100% legit
And what gives you this idea
If everone was 100% squeeky then there would be no money to be made out of a fachest rasheem
unliess they are just out to persecute people
I was sh/ting myself yesterday, 2nd day out on my own and I was told they were waiting outside the west gate at immingham. I had 26 of those heavy powder sacks the size of a pallet. Strapped up with internal straps as I was told this would be fine, but still worried that they might say it needed those roll straps aswell. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Anyways I left via the East gate and didn’t see them.
VOSA/DVSA? Don’t know why people are splitting hairs about what they’re called this week, only the other day I was speaking to a driver who told me his mate had been pulled by “The Ministry”. I knew straight away what he meant. there again we’re both “of a certain age” 
Bernard
I had a word with them two on Tuesday, whilst getting ones truck washed I watched them harass three drivers " ON THEIR 45 min break! " any how I asked them for ID and took them off them and said " follow me to the ministry weighbridge at gate 24! " 
guess what? They drove off at warp Mach 1 with police in tow! Scamsters
Fatboy slimslow:
I had a word with them two on Tuesday, whilst getting ones truck washed I watched them harass three drivers " ON THEIR 45 min break! "
what’s the weather like on your planet ?
dieseldog999:
raymundo:
Typical of the modern day steering wheel attendant, can drive a keyboard but not a lorry…+1…god almighty…how pedantic can you get…a vacuum cleaner is still referred to as a hoover.vosa can be called whaqtever gobstick name it wants to be called this week or next week,its still vosa irrespective of what the beancounters want it to be called…grade a…class1 …fanny.
HGV LGV
green456:
Fatboy slimslow:
I had a word with them two on Tuesday, whilst getting ones truck washed I watched them harass three drivers " ON THEIR 45 min break! "what’s the weather like on your planet ?
snowing/ slush ice now went to ministry weighbridge and handed in false vosatapo id and police chased after said " BLACK MINI ! " thank you very much for asking! all the best, merry easter it’ll soon be xmas!
they were doing these spot check thingies at the Woolwich Ferry a couple of weeks. There was an hour waiting time so all the Northbound vehicles were being put into the holding lanes on the South bank so I put it on break and made a brew. The VOSA/DVSA/Man from the Ministry approached after about 10 minutes and asked me to start flashing my lights etc. I asked him if that would be classed as other work because I was on a break and guess what…he said “Yes, but it won’t take more than a couple of minutes”!! Ah ok then, that makes it allright does it? 
lefkasman:
dieseldog999:
raymundo:
Typical of the modern day steering wheel attendant, can drive a keyboard but not a lorry…+1…god almighty…how pedantic can you get…a vacuum cleaner is still referred to as a hoover.vosa can be called whaqtever gobstick name it wants to be called this week or next week,its still vosa irrespective of what the beancounters want it to be called…grade a…class1 …fanny.
HGV LGV
going to take the bait,then I just thought,nnnaaaawwwwwwwww… I think we should just call them VOSA/DVSA/ MEN FROM THE MINISTRY then every pedantic ■■■■ will be able to relate to them… this is a similar logic to the retards in mcdonalds not knowing what chips are,untill you enlighten them to the fact that if theres not a bag of them in the box with your burger,then they will be pulled over the mc counter,and mc beaten to a mc pulp bigtime…
dieseldog999:
lefkasman:
dieseldog999:
raymundo:
Typical of the modern day steering wheel attendant, can drive a keyboard but not a lorry…+1…god almighty…how pedantic can you get…a vacuum cleaner is still referred to as a hoover.vosa can be called whaqtever gobstick name it wants to be called this week or next week,its still vosa irrespective of what the beancounters want it to be called…grade a…class1 …fanny.
HGV LGV
going to take the bait,then I just thought,nnnaaaawwwwwwwww… I think we should just call them VOSA/DVSA/ MEN FROM THE MINISTRY then every pedantic [zb] will be able to relate to them… this is a similar logic to the retards in mcdonalds not knowing what chips are,untill you enlighten them to the fact that if theres not a bag of them in the box with your burger,then they will be pulled over the mc counter,and mc beaten to a mc pulp bigtime…
If I am not very much mistaken, I believe you will find you get a box of them in your bag and not the other way round
Regards.John the pedant
I don’t think the receptacle that holds the things called fries can be called a box or a bag. Just saying like.
More pedantic than thou.