JD450A
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Yes.
If the police had any balls they would be asking now why the other photographed lorry has questionable infringements..... But alas they won't.
Yes.
If the police had any balls they would be asking now why the other photographed lorry has questionable infringements..... But alas they won't.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Lynch fined for abnormal load violation
A national plant hire operator has been ordered to pay more than £800,000 after being found guilty of moving an abnormal load without proper notification.
www.theconstructionindex.co.uk
CPS
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Theres some snore off that newholland
jd6820
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The outfit almost certainly wasn't within the 44,000kg allowable without movement order. I'd say the paperwork was probably for another vehicle which then automatically renders this vehicle overweight even though it was capable of carrying the load safely. My estimated weights put the vehicle at 46,185kg approx. So perfectly acceptable for the trailer and tractor unit provided the outfit was Special Types approved to at least CAT 1 standards.
Komatsu PC215 with bucket and 700mm pads - 22850kg
Digging Bucket - 700kg
2ft bucket - 500kg
Tractor unit - 9200kg
Trailer - 11935kg
Excess items/margin - 1000kg
Total weight - 46185kg
IMO the infringements I would have expected are as follows:
No marking of extremities when wider than 2.9m or over 300mm beyond side of trailer. This machine counts as oversize because the spec shows excavator having a shipping width of 3.080m on 700m pads (>2.9m requires movement order) and width markers. Which the trailer is actually fitted with!
The combination is subject to a movement order due to the combination weight, this order has to match the tractor unit and trailer. Which in this case it didn't regardless of the outfit being safe to carry the load shown.
Poor load securing of 2ft bucket, very easy for that chain to come slack due to 4ft bucket not being against immovable objects, then the dipper being secured by a ratchet strap to prevent slewing. Bucket could have been rested against tracks to further prevent movement and then should have been secured with chains.
I would also be wanting to check axle weights on the tractor unit too given the machine and buckets are mostly distributed at the neck. But I suspect they may be within limits.
In all reality, correct use of fitted marker boards and correct securing of the items mentioned are the only offences not covered by incorrect paperwork and a quick adjustment at the roadside would have easily resolved these issues. I think education is required rather than getting the industry knocked by imposing fines for infringements no matter how minor. There are a large number of rules that require careful reading. Especially when moving abnormal loads...
Giles
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Lynch be like come on look at this clown
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
......and where is plod when there's some real violations going on ???
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6feetdown
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Maybe they've had a lot of warnings previously or possibly even prosecutions.
A pity the transit brigade were not as sort after.
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CPS
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Lads, have a look.... hes on private land.... nowhere in that video is the tractor on a public road 
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Monkeybusiness
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He’s only posted it to wind people up - his comment about not stacking them on top of each other made me laugh!Course he’s just nipping between fields
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DaveDCB
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Best way is to laugh it off I guess
pettsy
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Whilever there’s the “if it’s on it’s gone” mentality, people will keep pulling stupid loads. If I was a haulier I’d be furious at what the “agricultural” tractor and lowloader brigade currently get away with daily while more rules and regulations are imposed on them.
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DaveDCB
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Fella around here drives his hydremas on the road… no lights/plates bugger all .. muckshifting loaded
craig
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Reading about this in Motor Transport, Lynch where moving a 79Ton drilling rig, the 210 on the photos must of been a pervious stop.
Dont know if the link will work without a login https://motortransport.co.uk/l-lync...or-abnormal-load-clerical-error/25933.article
Dont know if the link will work without a login https://motortransport.co.uk/l-lync...or-abnormal-load-clerical-error/25933.article
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
hence my comment above
......and where is plod when there's some real violations going on ???
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
TiltyShaun
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That article mentions turnover based fines. They make a mockery of justice as another operator making the same mistake does not face the same fate. Very similar to the biased prison sentence rules that have recently been blocked after an uproar.
I have read that are appealing the fine. Will be interesting to see what comes of it. Lynch are claiming the load was legal but the paperwork was void as they had put another registration number in, hence only clerical error.
I have read that are appealing the fine. Will be interesting to see what comes of it. Lynch are claiming the load was legal but the paperwork was void as they had put another registration number in, hence only clerical error.
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