colin-yorkshire said:
best was the comments I thought, ban them on the roads between 9am to 9pm
There are many things it would be worthwhile banning first. Like the heavy transporters that used to pass through the Almondsbury Interchange (M4/M5) daily during the morning rush hour carrying
railway carriages for maintenance, some bean counter having worked out (how the heck??) that it was cheaper than being taken by rail. They were not bothered about the economic cost of tens-of-thousands of commuters being delayed 15 minutes each though. Just goes to show how seriously wrong transport accounting is (but don't get me started).
Another example, also on my M5 commute, was a massive snack and hamburger "caravan" being towed by a
Mini (old type)! It must have been on its jockey wheel; the Mini was almost touching the ground at the back, doing about 25mph and filling the motorway with black smoke. I only saw it and eventually passed it after doing about 20 miles in an hour of stop-start with everyone else, such was the tailback it was causing (the road was clear beyond it). Surely the motorway controllers could have seen it and despatched a patrol to pull him over?
colin-yorkshire said:
"Dick" would make ...compulsory Mot's eh we have been there before folks, so what part of the Mot would cover correct loading!!
I must admit, new to caravanning, I was astonished that MoTs are
not required. No, they would not cover loading, just as the car MoT does not cover loading, your driving style, or many other factors, but at least it could check the brakes. Having said that, the MoT test for cars is getting silly (not to mention the rife bribery and corruption), with things like driver warnings for low tyre pressures (introduced for driver convenience) becoming part of the test and thus just another critical thing to go wrong and, far from a convenience, a pain in the backside.