How many times have you been stopped
Discussion
By VOSA,The Ministry ,the Police or as i call all of them The Feds ?
I found a piece of paper listing where and when i have been stopped for a roadside
check .
In about 14 years of driving trucks i have been stopped 9 times plus also once
before that whilst driving a Luton.
So how often have you been stopped ?
Have they ever found something wrong with the truck,your hours or overweight ?
To start off i was stopped on the M6 in 1999 in a 7.5 with a very overweight front axle.
I was fined £400 plus £87 costs
Over to you.
I found a piece of paper listing where and when i have been stopped for a roadside
check .
In about 14 years of driving trucks i have been stopped 9 times plus also once
before that whilst driving a Luton.
So how often have you been stopped ?
Have they ever found something wrong with the truck,your hours or overweight ?
To start off i was stopped on the M6 in 1999 in a 7.5 with a very overweight front axle.
I was fined £400 plus £87 costs
Over to you.
rumple said:
flagged red with vosa, so loads and loads of times,
This worries me slightly as i am the only driver who does walkaround checks everymorning and when a colleague gets stopped for that bulb out 5 minutes from the yard
all the fleet will be marked to be stopped.
I work with some of the biggest muppets ever.
3 are close to retirement ,so why would they care?
kingofherts said:
I used to work as a HGV2 driver delivering multidrop around London and the Home counties for about 6 years or so and I was never pulled or had any kind of trouble with the authorities (other than traffic wardens! grrrr..)
In central London you are always fairly safe as where are they going to set upa HGV stop point and not cause chaos ?
Nearest to central London i have seen a stop point is on Blackheath going away from
Deptford as there is a suitable side road available to them.
Panda76 said:
M25 Reigate way spring to mind.
That one seems to be open daily.It's actually at J9 ,Leatherhead and they have an Officer waiting on clockwise J8-9,
waiting for trucks to stop.They pull a lot of foreigners and have a sinbin for the
transgressors to stop in until put right.
Parp.
Going onto Vauxhall bridge this morning and Trafpol have a little checkpoint set up
in the buslane for trucks,got pulled in.
Checked my digi tacho card ,asked a few questions ,some of which were obviously testing
whether my details tallyed,"How tall are you ?..Where were you born ?"
and sent me on my way.
He didn't want to do any mechanical checks as it was raining !
It was only MOTed last Friday so shouldn't have had any problems there anyway...
Going onto Vauxhall bridge this morning and Trafpol have a little checkpoint set up
in the buslane for trucks,got pulled in.
Checked my digi tacho card ,asked a few questions ,some of which were obviously testing
whether my details tallyed,"How tall are you ?..Where were you born ?"
and sent me on my way.
He didn't want to do any mechanical checks as it was raining !
It was only MOTed last Friday so shouldn't have had any problems there anyway...
Got another stop check today coming out of the southbound Blackwall tunnel,they sit in their
Vosa Galaxy in a sliproad and nab unsuspecting drivers....
Truck checks limited to checking the lights, a few questions and the digi card taken for an
inspection in theie booth.
Nothing found....again...
Vosa Galaxy in a sliproad and nab unsuspecting drivers....
Truck checks limited to checking the lights, a few questions and the digi card taken for an
inspection in theie booth.
Nothing found....again...
No,they're random stops.
Turning off Vauxhall cross onto the bridge you can't see the stop point and they can't see you.
As soon as I turned I knew I was going in as there was a gap and he moved the cones in anticipation.
I also showed them the 2 stop sheets I carry with me .
This time the little hammer came out.
Turning off Vauxhall cross onto the bridge you can't see the stop point and they can't see you.
As soon as I turned I knew I was going in as there was a gap and he moved the cones in anticipation.
I also showed them the 2 stop sheets I carry with me .
This time the little hammer came out.
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