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Keep farm tractors on the farm
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YOUR FEATURE headed "Red Sunset" (CM 26 May) made interesting reading. I was gobsmacked the other week when! saw a tractor with a low-loader carrying a crane so large that in ordinary circumstances I am sure it would require STGO plates.
I wouldn't care to guess how many regulations were potentially being broken, but of course, it seems you can do what you like so long as you use a tractor rather than a genuine road vehicle.
Every day I see numerous items being moved by tractors that have nothing whatever to do with agriculture: spoil from demolition sites, building materials, plant of all descriptions, forklift trucks... the list is endless. It can't be long before I see one at an RDC pulling a curtainsider!
Then of course on every motorway journey you are passed by 4x4s towing huge trailers carrying all manner of things, a large proportion of which look to be in excess of 3.5 tonnes GVW Have they got an 0-licence or a tachograph? Have they even heard of an 0-licence?
What a nonsense it makes of the operators licensing system when one can simply bypass it by using these 'alternative' haulage methods. Maybe some of the 300 people who VOSA proposes to lose could be employed to look into this, or is that asking too much?
Alan Headley Burnley