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First time I heard that rumour was around 96 I think and the firm even welded a tail board on the back of my 18ft bed and told me the 21's would just have to sit on top. They gave up after I took the sthill saw to the fourth one.
 
The reason is because a driver for a scaffolding company in london got a fine and points for having ladders on the back and the police told him that they are clamping down on scaffolding lorrys carrying unsecure loads. I asked a mate who works for vosa as a inspector and he said the same. So is it another phase or are they going to make the scaffolding world change the way the lorrys are ?
 
Never heard anything new but it wouldn't surprise me as there seems to be almost as many changes with VOSA and driving regulations as there is in scaffolding. I wouldn't imagine a tail board being too much of a problem nowadays though as any scaffold truck I see has a 21ft bed and the ladders would still need to hang out the back, which in itself wouldn't be illegal. Would the new drivers CPC not cover any load retaining training?
 
hello gents and ladies.
Ive added a few free downloads to my site and a few new items, have a little look.
thanks
max
www.thescaffolder.com
 
Excellent site Max, has any more info materialised about the supposed insecure loads? all we are hearing from VOSA is rumours and maybes.
 
Swiftly. I'm sat with a vosa gent now and he is working Essex. He said this months target is refrigerated lorrys. But also is saying that the cluded up police are still going to pull any scaffolding lorry that looks incercure with ladders etc ratterling around the back. His advice is to secure the load and stop the pull in the first place. ( I'll let you know his advice after I get him drunk lol ).
The site is getting to the stage where it is moving form a hobby to what I aimed it to be. The whole reason I started the site was to try and put a area on the web that everyone in scaffolding could get hold of the advice and bits of paper that we all need in our everyday work. If you look on here somebody needs something everyday, hopefully they will be able to download it from my site-free
But even I still thinks this forum is the best scaffolding site in the uk !
If anyone has any thing that would help another scaffolder/scaffolding firm send it and I'll add it as a free down load.
Thanks
Max.
 
aom said:
Never heard anything new but it wouldn't surprise me as there seems to be almost as many changes with VOSA and driving regulations as there is in scaffolding. I wouldn't imagine a tail board being too much of a problem nowadays though as any scaffold truck I see has a 21ft bed and the ladders would still need to hang out the back, which in itself wouldn't be illegal. Would the new drivers CPC not cover any load retaining training?
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I have always made a tail board up out of to short tubes from the back rack to the bed and 2 short boards , always also buy a lorry with a 22 foot bed , the old bill do tend to leave you alone if everything is nice and tidy.
I have worked for a few firms over the years who put 5 foot tubes at the back of the lorry any wonder the odd one falls of .
 
phil wt the maximum ya can have sailing out the back weve got a few ivecos and ya have to sail board out by 2ft to get fittings and 6ft on front is it half the with of the vehicle or sumet or have i just made that up lol
 
I'm told it's more to do with the distance from the rear axle than the actual bed.
 
And us Scaffy, how will you get around the tailboard dilemma?
 
i'd luv to know the answer to that cosi was coming home a few weeks ago around the m25 near leatherhead and had a vosa wagon pulled along side of me and had a really good look but didnt pull me i had 2 of the biggest beams u've seen at nearly 11m long and over 3 ton each they oversailed the end by nearly 4m......they were painted with yellow stips on the oversail and had a hivis plate on the end .....i knew it was a bit dodgy but the way i looked at it was they were stable and visible and i didnt think i'd be anywhere near vosa lolol - i was shiiiting myself when they came along side, but looked down at them smiled,nodded
 
Was told by a motorbike police that the maximum over hang is 1 meter , whether thats right or not i couldn't tell you , Dont them massive loads nave to be escorted by the police Southern ?
 
obviously vosa never pulled me so they cant have been that fussed - i always thought that anything over 1m had to have a marker board on it though
 
Think your allowed 2m overhang either way so long as its marked and lit at night
My my vosa leatherhead had a few tugs there and the blackwall tunnel !!

Rear tailgates ?


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