Lancs Lad
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Yup....Few fastracs in this area isn't there!Motorway going ones too.
Many on the windy harbour job?
The best loopholes for using dads tractor as a lorry. DVSA please don't look in here.
Many on the windy harbour job?
jd6820
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To be fair there don't seem to be, not as many as around Broughton, even had tractors and dump trailers carting away from site near main motorway roundabout. Claas and John Deere's mainlyYup....
Lancs Lad
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Ha youve seen it as well then...To be fair there don't seem to be, not as many as around Broughton, even had tractors and dump trailers carting away from site near main motorway roundabout. Claas and John Deere's mainly
jd6820
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Yeah, I was on my way to complete driver cpc theory in Preston and went via Broughton. It’s people like them who draw all the attention on tractors being on the roads illegally. An easy stop if you ask me but nobody seems bothered.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
to enter/use a motorway any vehicle must be capable of achieving and sustaining 50mphFew fastracs in this area isn't there!
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Smiffy
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The old ones do. They will easily maintain 60mph and overtake lorries!!! There is one who does it on the M25 on a very regular basis. Seen agri unimogs do the same.
pettsy
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Two big jd tractors and dump trailers running off a local development. Also followed them short-cutting through a 7.5t weight limit. Three outfits running fastracs with dump trailers/low loaders/ grab trailers. If I was a haulier with operators license/cpc/inspections/dvsa etc I’d be savage!
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DaveDCB
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Surely some of these tractor guys must be doing it properly along the way?? Can’t all just be chancing it!
Giles
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JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
There is this one legitimate bloke with a rather nice condition John Deere front weight I've heard about
Bri963
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Sadly a lot of youngsters haven’t the confidence to say no when they’re put under pressure to pull these stunts. I was the same until my early 20’s, when I refused to load straw bales over height on home-extended 42’ trailers (yes, 42’). Ended up getting sacked and thinking it was the end of the world, who’d employ someone branded a troublemaker, etc.
Turned out to be the best thing that could have happened as that was the time I grew a pair when dealing with bosses. Shame some of these kids are going to find out the hard way that loyalty isn’t rewarded.
Turned out to be the best thing that could have happened as that was the time I grew a pair when dealing with bosses. Shame some of these kids are going to find out the hard way that loyalty isn’t rewarded.
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DaveDCB
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Genuinely may as well worn mine, hasn’t even seen the open road in over 4 months!There is this one legitimate bloke with a rather nice condition John Deere front weight I've heard about
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
why SORN it .... no tax to pay anyway surely, if ag.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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DaveDCB
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why SORN it .... no tax to pay anyway surely, if ag.
Yeah after I posted I remembered it’s my cheapest vehicle to tax £0 so it wouldn’t matter anyway
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DaveDCB
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really?????
Daft comment I know, but a lot of tipper companies run them along side the wagons, don’t know why you’d risk your whole operation just to make afew extra ££ when there is plenty in the job anyway!! If I was bulk earthwork moving no way does a tractor/trailer make any kind of sense! They are awkward things at the best of times!
I just book 8w for muck shifts offsite and be done with it!
pettsy
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As time goes on, there’s less and less people with a hgv license. In theory anyone can be put in a tractor seat and shown how to drive it 
Giles
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Cough Cheshire demolition cough
Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
I often wonder why you would bulk muck shift with a tractor and trailer, but I guess easier to get cheap drivers. Which can be a big saving and I guess if you say it is agri work, run on red with no tacho so can do long days there must be money to be made especially as it would appear the chances of getting prosecuted a very slim. I have never heard of a prosecution round my way.
Lancs Lad
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One topic that's not been mentioned...
No one questions tractors tipping muck in a field...rows of 8 Leggers they may do..
What happens to the muck is arguably where the money's to be made
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