Ha ha I remember when I was driving down the motorway a van with a trailer with rolled up turfed grass on it was in front of us and my mate says if I win the lottery I am having my grass taken away like that to be cut lol 😂
Have huge respect for HGV and coach drivers some of the idiots they have to deal with in their daily lives are unbelievable, husband is a coach driver and PSV instructor so hear it first hand. Only someone with something to hide is bothered by spot checks from VOSA or as i call them "non professional" drivers ;) Keep on trucking paul show um how it's done!
Never had any problems with VOSA during my time on the road, was always polite to them and they were always polite to me, no shouting and swearing at them, it gets you an even longer delay. Plenty of problems with a Wiltshire Police ARU, trying to tell me my front tyres were illegal when I knew they were okay (confirmed by Michelin UK area manager later that week)
I live in Australia, and came from Manchester, soon as this video started I new this was the m62 in the Greater Manchester area befor the road sign came into view
Rather than waste a drivers valuable time, why don't they make unannounced visits at the depots, inspect lorries at the start/end of a shift? At the end of the day, the boss is responsible for maintaining, replacing tyres etc, a driver on his own can't do much about that??
The employee is caught between a rock and a hard place basically, get fired or points on licence. Hence why I think that the law should be aimed more at the business owner.
Steve Clark yes they already can do this, but, on the road it IS the Drivers responsibility END of, and after the sentencing of the owner and so called mechanic, I would expect that the rules will get much stricter, anyone with own maintain will be rightly inspected every 6 months, and should pay enforcement as does environmental sites
Steve Clark hello steve, daily walkround checks its called,and if the company do not allowat least 15 min for this each day ,tell them to ................ and get another job,it is for your own good.... warning to all truckers, DO NOT WORK FOR P.C.L. HATFIELD..... .
Steve Clark that's not going to work is it mate. if vosa go to the yard and come across a parked lorry with defects. it's not braking the law in till it's on the road. and thay check your not over weight. the drivers not gone over his her hours ECT. iv not been pulled buy them myself and don't want to be. but if your good at your job and on the ball. then nothing to worry about mate. there just people😁
It's a very quick affair indeed when they pull you up when you have hazardous stuff on board. I got pulled at trowel with a load of cyclohexane on and the vosa man asked me what it did so I said "Do you remember flixbourough" crikey I was out of there fast.
I don't like getting pulled over by vosa anymore than the next person but ffs they are only doing what they are paid to do...it's their job just the same as driving trucks is ours.
VOSA are keeping our road safer, these foreign drivers with trucks that aren't fit for the roads or use magnets so they can drive for a ridiculous amount of houses . 👍from me.
as my truck doesn't pass mot for reason unappropriate front tyres, indeed passed mot on the same tyres last year, very interesting point is that on the same vehicle front braking pads hadn't been at all, just only left metal plate
I have never been stopped at that one on the M627/M62 junction is there a weighbridge there? I believe there is to be a big site for VOSA or whatever they are called now at on the M56 at junction 7 the A56/A556 intersection when the roadworks there are finished.
I to heard all sorts of stories about those "nasty horrible" vosa people. I was called in for my first ever stop at a vosa station in Tankersley Rotherham.. In my opinion, they could not have been more polite.
Many years ago MOT pulled over a brand new truck, they found the rear wheel nuts hadn't been tightened and had worn the studs. The truck had to be repaired there in the layby, as it couldn't even be towed,
Who would. Be a truck driver in the UK? Overcrowded, potholed roads, transport managers that treat you like you've just been scraped from their boot sole and nowhere to lay up for the night but some filthy, piss stinking lay-by at the side of the road! The joys
Whatever they want and is totally important what attitude you have towards them, if you act like an idiot then they will check everything and "they will find faults even if they are not there and penalize you"....
I got pulled over at the same place said he would do a quick weigh of my truck, no problem I said, I am empty, oh we will weigh you any way rofl what a joke.
+phil mason They can stop both public service vehicles and heavy goods vehicles. Both have the power to carry out spot checks on your vehicle and issue prohibitions if they are necessary. A VOSA officer will pull you over in the same way a police officer would.
phil mason Police is near and will follow, in the main time they will be close to you until cops will stop you to borrow your licence, some money and points and in the main time you can go home to goggle for another job...
Sometimes I used to be abit over loaded in a 3.1/2 tonner recovery truck and I used to go pass them like a tiger on the 3rd lane. That way they can't catch me or other times if there was too much traffic I used to stay on the right hand side of the lorrys in order to avoid them pulling me over and killing my time!
They don't have any power to arrest or stop you but to refuse to comply to their direction is an offence. Simple but complicated. They are now liveried as Traffic Officers, its getting very confusing
+killer1479 They inspect everything from your tachograph card to your tyres, coupling, your licence, cpc, drivers card... whatever they feel they should inspect
TRUCKER PAUL cool, thanks :) am i right in remembering that, they dont actually have powers to enter/search the cab ? only police can do that ? or under the supervision of police ?
+killer1479 Yes but when they wanna search your cab be sure that police will be with them on site and you will have to follow them to the check site mate.
TRUCKER PAUL well that sucks... i hear they have police in the car with them now for truckers who refused to pull over ? maybe because those who do have been snagged by some bastard head or a bogus vosa one.. but thanks for clearing it up for me :) i've seen video's were some vosa are pricks and a few are decent and polite, lol. anyway, be safe and keep on truckin' :D
that squeaky sound coming from vipers was agonizing besides that awesome video, I'd like to see more routine videos :P btw I've subscribed right after I saw that cool cat at the beginning xD
I can remember Years ago when I had my Vauxhall Astra diesel ..The one with the 1.7 D isuzu engine that was as hard as the hobs of hell. I had just filled up with 10 Gallons (45 Litres) of Red Diesel .. VOSA were stopping diesel vehicles at random. There was a VOSA guy stood in the road and he was just about to do a random stop... He let me go past and stopped a Ford Transit van instead that was right behind me... WHAT A LOSER! I ran that for 7 Years on "Red" and never got caught.. New cars are rubbish and don't seem to be able to take "Red" anymore. Ah the good old days.
TRUCKER PAUL role on aussie rules where infringements can lead to immediate driver, vehicle and load impound all at drivers expense, brexit will bring Aussie rules not shit euro , any fine on euro truck will be effectively a vehicle prohibition until paid, oh shit that what happens in France anyay
i once got pulled over for a weigh in coming back from ireland, are you loaded or unloaded said the guy , i am empty i said, oh wait i have a wardrobe on, ok get on the weighbridge said the jobsworth, how heavy do you think this fucking wardrobe is says i
TRUCKER PAUL i've heard of vosa having orange plate days but didnt think they were real but you and every other wagon in there were running ADR so i guess they are
just noticed the date, this was a wednesday, on the sunday I was run over and was in a coma for three weeks, funny what you find on YT oh I`m disabled now.
look bud i have been a trucker and i have had my air brake fail down a hill just after a vosa check so they are bloody useless . all truckers have a brain and they are the best drivers you will find ,
I'm not sure legally you have to follow or stop for these vehicles. Only a marked police vehicles. Even unmarked police cars you don't have to stop for, only drive to the nearest police station. Would be interesting to see what happened if you refused to obey.
From what I understand only a marked police vehicle has the right to stop you for a roadside check, these people are not police officers nor are they driving police vehicles, therefor if you didn't stop would you get fined for non compliance.
See this lot you wonder why the young are not driving or taking up trucking governments have it f..ked with red tape I passed mine two years ago and the shit just gets worse I've see good drivers just say to much to deal with now a days report for this card for that hassle for this write for this sign for that but as I was told a major shortage of drivers in UK and Ireland and you wonder why
I have this "routine check" bollocks. If you're not breaking a law or driving dangerously, or in a suspect vehicle from a maintenance point of view, all this does is waste time of the driver and money of the taxpayer. Far too much regulation in the UK. Which is one reason the place is turning into a 3rd world country.
tasmedic wrong wrong can't wait for Aussie style mantatory checks, makes current vosa check mild, any failure would impound tractor and load, can't wait
I suggest you wait to see what the sentence for manslaughter is rightfully handed down to the owner and so called mechanic of the tipper, I hope at least 20 years each, maintain is a 6 wk schedule as a min will also follow and a 6 monthly official check, cowboy idiot brings whole operation into disrepute, ignoring the rules has consequences.... Tough
tasmedic yep totaly agree and lets face it how many people check their car's wheel nuts each day before setting out on a jouney?? And you can do as much damage with an unroadworthy car as you can with a truck so come on vosa you need to be looking at the bigger picture here and while your at it start fitting tacho's to cars too coz lets face it you can drive as long as you like in your car infact untill you fall asleep at the wheel and cause a multi vehicle pile up on the motorway and as the police an vosa have no way of knowing how long you have been driving you will more than likely get away with saying you had a lapse of concentration.. The people who seem to love vosa are the ones who are not in the firing line every day of the week so these people need to get out there and spend a fortune on an hgv licence plus all the other stuff you need to do this over worked and underpaid occupation then put themselves in the firing line and see if they still have the same nice things to say about these roadside robbers
tasmedic j "turning into a third world country"? Have you been to a true third world country? I bet you'd eat your words in minutes. And I'm guessing you've never experienced seeing death either. Not peaceful, old age death, but premature death which could completely have been avoided. "Over-regulation" exists to reduce road deaths to the lowest number possible. I'm sure you'd change your mind on that too if you responded to a few RTCs a year
i'd say they may help take lives when wasting 40 minutes of your time, may cause many to get stressed out because of all the time limits and deadlines to hold.
+stefan olsen If there were no rules you'll have to drive longer, be more stressed & tired behind the wheel, fall asleep 10 times faster and have the change to be dead by now... but hey that's your opinion and we have to leave with that...
TRUCKER PAUL You made it sound like those where my words :S and there is a ofcourse in the fact that we need rules, but do we need every single phsycotic rule out there? and follow it like sheep with no personality, only robotic actions? The problem is we are giving too many organisations power and authority that lets them enforce, and if you do not obey all these random people you can be punished. I don't enjoy the fact that so many creeps around the world can actually force their will on you, to control you and your life and your action, if even so for a brief moment, it's still a reminder to me that some random person because of his position had the power enforced to restrict my freedom, even for just a short time. And most people just go with it, because they have been taught too obey it all.
+stefan olsen I agree with you, these are control freaks mate and the problem is that they put some rules they don't even follow or obey. To many rules are non sense and should not be there but since not many of them are interested in this why should they changed them as long as they get paid for doing nothing else than causing others holes in the pockets.
TRUCKER PAUL It's up to the people to rise up against tyrrany and facism, but we aren't really doing anything, we whine and accept whine and accept, as we all get financially raped. It's always starts with a small nuisance, that is meant to grow over time, but over time we get used to the nuisance, so we don't say enough, we just let it slide. Hopefully people will burst into outrage sometime, in the distant future.
stefan olsen hello there,it is the companys time, not yours, you are getting paid for it,you get a vosa piece of paper stating when stoped and for how long,also this is not p.o.a it is working time, the companys time ,got it,what is going on in u.k. are all workers there a charity working for free, thanks
+TRUCKER PAUL Hi Paul. good vid, looks like you have the same camera as myself but I cannot get my picture as clear as yours, Mine always seems to be a bit fuzzy for some reason and cannot make out the number plates of other cars, can you please please advise me which settings to use?
+Michael Cleary Make sure you removed the protection sticker in front of the lens if the camera is new, is a small sticker like a screen protector on the phone not really visible but will affect quality recording mate.
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I want one of them cars with the "Follow Me" sign on the roof so I can take people on a tour of the country.
haha
Ok this made me laugh, thanks for this comment
Nice comment
gary63693 up
Ha ha I remember when I was driving down the motorway a van with a trailer with rolled up turfed grass on it was in front of us and my mate says if I win the lottery I am having my grass taken away like that to be cut lol 😂
Have huge respect for HGV and coach drivers some of the idiots they have to deal with in their daily lives are unbelievable, husband is a coach driver and PSV instructor so hear it first hand. Only someone with something to hide is bothered by spot checks from VOSA or as i call them "non professional" drivers ;) Keep on trucking paul show um how it's done!
Never had any problems with VOSA during my time on the road, was always polite to them and they were always polite to me, no shouting and swearing at them, it gets you an even longer delay. Plenty of problems with a Wiltshire Police ARU, trying to tell me my front tyres were illegal when I knew they were okay (confirmed by Michelin UK area manager later that week)
I live in Australia, and came from Manchester, soon as this video started I new this was the m62 in the Greater Manchester area befor the road sign came into view
Rather than waste a drivers valuable time, why don't they make unannounced visits at the depots, inspect lorries at the start/end of a shift? At the end of the day, the boss is responsible for maintaining, replacing tyres etc, a driver on his own can't do much about that??
Yeah, I know that's the law's stance on it but try telling some managers that you need time to check a vehicle over in the first place.
The employee is caught between a rock and a hard place basically, get fired or points on licence. Hence why I think that the law should be aimed more at the business owner.
Steve Clark yes they already can do this, but, on the road it IS the Drivers responsibility END of, and after the sentencing of the owner and so called mechanic, I would expect that the rules will get much stricter, anyone with own maintain will be rightly inspected every 6 months, and should pay enforcement as does environmental sites
Steve Clark hello steve, daily walkround checks its called,and if the company do not allowat least 15 min for this each day ,tell them to ................ and get another job,it is for your own good.... warning to all truckers, DO NOT WORK FOR P.C.L. HATFIELD..... .
Steve Clark that's not going to work is it mate. if vosa go to the yard and come across a parked lorry with defects. it's not braking the law in till it's on the road. and thay check your not over weight. the drivers not gone over his her hours ECT. iv not been pulled buy them myself and don't want to be. but if your good at your job and on the ball. then nothing to worry about mate. there just people😁
Never had a problem with these lads and ladies , very polite and helpful. got me out of a jam many times ......
its because so many hgv drivers are now under so much pressure from their criminal bosses to get the job done.
It's a very quick affair indeed when they pull you up when you have hazardous stuff on board. I got pulled at trowel with a load of cyclohexane on and the vosa man asked me what it did so I said "Do you remember flixbourough" crikey I was out of there fast.
I don't like getting pulled over by vosa anymore than the next person but ffs they are only doing what they are paid to do...it's their job just the same as driving trucks is ours.
Jamie Hughes very nice of you to look at it like that.but when you have timed deliveries. It does make things awkward.
VOSA are keeping our road safer, these foreign drivers with trucks that aren't fit for the roads or use magnets so they can drive for a ridiculous amount of houses .
👍from me.
You are not any better abroad so do not generalize cos if you do you are wrong!
Seeing the weather there makes me soooooooo glad I moved to Australia :-)
oh yeah and they don't have rain in aus !!! your having a laugh mate
god that brings back memories ,,when you could travel on the m60 without road works
His follow me sign is broken yet on the trucks they say 'if it's on there it should work' added lights or not ....surely that applies to them too?
as my truck doesn't pass mot for reason unappropriate front tyres, indeed passed mot on the same tyres last year, very interesting point is that on the same vehicle front braking pads hadn't been at all, just only left metal plate
Total thirty minute diversion - not bad I suppose, but I do wish they would do random checks at the depots and border control for foreign trucks.
foreign trucks and trucks crossing border are more likely to be carrying something they shouldn't be carrying.
I have never been stopped at that one on the M627/M62 junction is there a weighbridge there? I believe there is to be a big site for VOSA or whatever they are called now at on the M56 at junction 7 the A56/A556 intersection when the roadworks there are finished.
Cloudmaker oh yes mandatory checks, cars have been subject to these forever
I to heard all sorts of stories about those "nasty horrible" vosa people. I was called in for my first ever stop at a vosa station in Tankersley Rotherham.. In my opinion, they could not have been more polite.
Wolves in sheep clothing.
surprised no one picked up on record playing on radio .living on a prayer he he
Many years ago MOT pulled over a brand new truck, they found the rear wheel nuts hadn't been tightened and had worn the studs. The truck had to be repaired there in the layby, as it couldn't even be towed,
And that, Good Morning, is why there are random stops...
satnav is so correct "ahead, keep right" you really do have to "keep right" with vosa
It is indeed lol
Truck sounds nice when pulling away on roundabout.
+Mark Leadbeater Hehehe thx!
Put the mic closer to the screen and turn it up, so we can hear that squeak real good.
The need to spend more time stopping and checking trucks from other countries inside the EU, I bet loads of them are unroadworthy
Who would. Be a truck driver in the UK? Overcrowded, potholed roads, transport managers that treat you like you've just been scraped from their boot sole and nowhere to lay up for the night but some filthy, piss stinking lay-by at the side of the road! The joys
I can appreciate the job vosa do because they stop employers cutting corners on safety but some vosa officers can take their authority a bit far
Must be a pain getting pulled off the road for 40mins. Can understand the reasoning behind it though. Hazard of the job I suppose.
Good on vosa, need to pull those truckers in. Some of the trucks I have seen on the motorway look like wrecks 😡
I totally agree, I don't dislike VOSA at all. I respect them and the job they are doing as long as they respect me & my rights..!
should pull more idiot car drivers in.
Whatever they want and is totally important what attitude you have
towards them, if you act like an idiot then they will check everything
and "they will find faults even if they are not there and penalize
you"....
I got pulled over at the same place said he would do a quick weigh of my truck, no problem I said, I am empty, oh we will weigh you any way rofl what a joke.
Garry0491 thanks, I had a car stolen that was smuggled out by an "empty" truck, every truck should be weigh ridged at all ports etc..
What happens if u don't follow them?
Still them and us, I am on the side of us...Failed mechanics usually, some of them just love thinking they have a bit of power...
lol, a quick check, over an hour and 20 mins!!
they are called DVSA now, and are self funding i have been told.
We could do with a bit of this in Ireland. I've never seen so much truck tyre debris on the sides of motorways as I do here.
It always rains in Oldam
Just out of curiosity, I only see Vosa pulling in wagons. Do they ever pull cars over?
+phil mason They can do but mostly pull over vans and lorries
+phil mason They can stop both public service vehicles and heavy goods vehicles. Both have the power to carry out spot checks on your vehicle and issue prohibitions if they are necessary. A VOSA officer will pull you over in the same way a police officer would.
+WhisperInTheWind2007 wrong - vosa have no right to stop a vehicle - and the police who assist them are acting outside of their oath and the law..
So when they have the 'follow me' sign lit up, what happens if you just ignore it?
phil mason Police is near and will follow, in the main time they will be close to you until cops will stop you to borrow your licence, some money and points and in the main time you can go home to goggle for another job...
*Yeah, this is pilot.*
Sometimes I used to be abit over loaded in a 3.1/2 tonner recovery truck and I used to go pass them like a tiger on the 3rd lane. That way they can't catch me or other times if there was too much traffic I used to stay on the right hand side of the lorrys in order to avoid them pulling me over and killing my time!
I didn't know that anybody other than the police had the legal right to do traffic stop checks?
They don't have any power to arrest or stop you but to refuse to comply to their direction is an offence. Simple but complicated. They are now liveried as Traffic Officers, its getting very confusing
Only in England and Wales. Not sure about NI.
hello :)
nice video... what exactly do they inspect ?.. im hoping to get through my car lessons and progress to truck driving lessons :)
+killer1479 They inspect everything from your tachograph card to your tyres, coupling, your licence, cpc, drivers card... whatever they feel they should inspect
TRUCKER PAUL cool, thanks :) am i right in remembering that, they dont actually have powers to enter/search the cab ? only police can do that ? or under the supervision of police ?
+killer1479 Yes but when they wanna search your cab be sure that police will be with them on site and you will have to follow them to the check site mate.
TRUCKER PAUL well that sucks... i hear they have police in the car with them now for truckers who refused to pull over ? maybe because those who do have been snagged by some bastard head or a bogus vosa one..
but thanks for clearing it up for me :)
i've seen video's were some vosa are pricks and a few are decent and polite, lol.
anyway, be safe and keep on truckin' :D
Not worth it pal, it is a nightmare of an industry, the laws surrounding it are too oppressive, that is the EU for you.
that squeaky sound coming from vipers was agonizing
besides that awesome video, I'd like to see more routine videos :P
btw I've subscribed right after I saw that cool cat at the beginning xD
+Miro Vojtechovsky Thanks mate, sorry the option for the comments was off for some reason... sorted now.
Yeah, you are right about the sound mate..!
"Won't keep you long" .......only 40 minutes!
I know were that is as I live in Oldham
I can remember Years ago when I had my Vauxhall Astra diesel ..The one with the 1.7 D isuzu engine that was as hard as the hobs of hell.
I had just filled up with 10 Gallons (45 Litres) of Red Diesel ..
VOSA were stopping diesel vehicles at random.
There was a VOSA guy stood in the road and he was just about to do a random stop... He let me go past and stopped a Ford Transit van instead that was right behind me... WHAT A LOSER!
I ran that for 7 Years on "Red" and never got caught..
New cars are rubbish and don't seem to be able to take "Red" anymore.
Ah the good old days.
Nuke proof those engines pal and the Transit banana engine, best engines ever. I used to run on red, lol, hard to do it now.
VOSA don't check for red diesel, Customs & Excise check for red diesel
Roadside vehicle checks for commercial drivers
www.gov.uk/roadside-vehicle-checks-for-commercial-drivers/checks-on-your-vehicle
TRUCKER PAUL role on aussie rules where infringements can lead to immediate driver, vehicle and load impound all at drivers expense, brexit will bring Aussie rules not shit euro , any fine on euro truck will be effectively a vehicle prohibition until paid, oh shit that what happens in France anyay
i once got pulled over for a weigh in coming back from ireland, are you loaded or unloaded said the guy , i am empty i said, oh wait i have a wardrobe on, ok get on the weighbridge said the jobsworth, how heavy do you think this fucking wardrobe is says i
I've seen it on tv... crazy!
Did you have adr plates on by any chance?
Yes Ste i did...!
TRUCKER PAUL i've heard of vosa having orange plate days but didnt think they were real but you and every other wagon in there were running ADR so i guess they are
Baby TVCatchup
Vosa or dvsa as thay ar called these days tend to set up camp at distribution hubs these days and catch you as your. Comeing in
In all honesty there's more than one team throughout the UK you got a good team there
just noticed the date, this was a wednesday, on the sunday I was run over and was in a coma for three weeks, funny what you find on YT oh I`m disabled now.
cannot understand why vosa do this , the trucks have a mot every year what a waste of truckers time .. and our money
look bud i have been a trucker and i have had my air brake fail down a hill just after a vosa check so they are bloody useless . all truckers have a brain and they are the best drivers you will find ,
yep true but they did not her the hisssssss comeing from a broken nut on they air tank ???????????????
by by then . ill find you a doctor.>>>>>>>>>
that's hilarious... the whole point is to check you conform with safety rules and laws not overweight or driven for too long etc...
may be bud but after the mot . you can overload it any way if you want
I'm not sure legally you have to follow or stop for these vehicles. Only a marked police vehicles. Even unmarked police cars you don't have to stop for, only drive to the nearest police station. Would be interesting to see what happened if you refused to obey.
Give the cat a purrr from me,
From what I understand only a marked police vehicle has the right to stop you for a roadside check, these people are not police officers nor are they driving police vehicles, therefor if you didn't stop would you get fined for non compliance.
I wish we had VOSA in Oz
stendec Stretcher don't we have "Weights & Measure Cops" & " Heavy Vehicle Inspection Cops"???
35 minutes, fucking hell, did you stick this as a break on your tachograph? lol
+gary63693 I put it on POA mate lol
See this lot you wonder why the young are not driving or taking up trucking governments have it f..ked with red tape I passed mine two years ago and the shit just gets worse I've see good drivers just say to much to deal with now a days report for this card for that hassle for this write for this sign for that but as I was told a major shortage of drivers in UK and Ireland and you wonder why
wow didn't realise they did this real insight
I once stopped and asked a lady for the right way to Oldham and got my face slapped...
Rochdaaaale
What was all that about. It looked like time wasting
A routine check looking for things to blame
No chance would I pull over for that! If it's not a Police Officer I'm not pulling over.
Adler and allan sneaking off
I have this "routine check" bollocks. If you're not breaking a law or driving dangerously, or in a suspect vehicle from a maintenance point of view, all this does is waste time of the driver and money of the taxpayer. Far too much regulation in the UK. Which is one reason the place is turning into a 3rd world country.
Yes, because 3rd world countries suffer from too much regulation? That makes no sense.
tasmedic wrong wrong can't wait for Aussie style mantatory checks, makes current vosa check mild, any failure would impound tractor and load, can't wait
I suggest you wait to see what the sentence for manslaughter is rightfully handed down to the owner and so called mechanic of the tipper, I hope at least 20 years each, maintain is a 6 wk schedule as a min will also follow and a 6 monthly official check, cowboy idiot brings whole operation into disrepute, ignoring the rules has consequences.... Tough
tasmedic yep totaly agree and lets face it how many people check their car's wheel nuts each day before setting out on a jouney?? And you can do as much damage with an unroadworthy car as you can with a truck so come on vosa you need to be looking at the bigger picture here and while your at it start fitting tacho's to cars too coz lets face it you can drive as long as you like in your car infact untill you fall asleep at the wheel and cause a multi vehicle pile up on the motorway and as the police an vosa have no way of knowing how long you have been driving you will more than likely get away with saying you had a lapse of concentration..
The people who seem to love vosa are the ones who are not in the firing line every day of the week so these people need to get out there and spend a fortune on an hgv licence plus all the other stuff you need to do this over worked and underpaid occupation then put themselves in the firing line and see if they still have the same nice things to say about these roadside robbers
tasmedic j "turning into a third world country"? Have you been to a true third world country? I bet you'd eat your words in minutes. And I'm guessing you've never experienced seeing death either. Not peaceful, old age death, but premature death which could completely have been avoided. "Over-regulation" exists to reduce road deaths to the lowest number possible. I'm sure you'd change your mind on that too if you responded to a few RTCs a year
i'd say they may help take lives when wasting 40 minutes of your time, may cause many to get stressed out because of all the time limits and deadlines to hold.
+stefan olsen If there were no rules you'll have to drive longer, be more stressed & tired behind the wheel, fall asleep 10 times faster and have the change to be dead by now... but hey that's your opinion and we have to leave with that...
TRUCKER PAUL You made it sound like those where my words :S and there is a ofcourse in the fact that we need rules, but do we need every single phsycotic rule out there? and follow it like sheep with no personality, only robotic actions? The problem is we are giving too many organisations power and authority that lets them enforce, and if you do not obey all these random people you can be punished. I don't enjoy the fact that so many creeps around the world can actually force their will on you, to control you and your life and your action, if even so for a brief moment, it's still a reminder to me that some random person because of his position had the power enforced to restrict my freedom, even for just a short time. And most people just go with it, because they have been taught too obey it all.
+stefan olsen I agree with you, these are control freaks mate and the problem is that they put some rules they don't even follow or obey. To many rules are non sense and should not be there but since not many of them are interested in this why should they changed them as long as they get paid for doing nothing else than causing others holes in the pockets.
TRUCKER PAUL It's up to the people to rise up against tyrrany and facism, but we aren't really doing anything, we whine and accept whine and accept, as we all get financially raped. It's always starts with a small nuisance, that is meant to grow over time, but over time we get used to the nuisance, so we don't say enough, we just let it slide. Hopefully people will burst into outrage sometime, in the distant future.
stefan olsen hello there,it is the companys time, not yours, you are getting paid for it,you get a vosa piece of paper stating when stoped and for how long,also this is not p.o.a it is working time, the companys time ,got it,what is going on in u.k. are all workers there a charity working for free, thanks
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Do VOSA have any right in law to make you follow them? ...I thought only the police have that authority so VOSA would need a police escort
Yeah they do have the authority to instruct vehicles to pull over on motorways.
Jonathan Vogel yep, need to keep up with the law don't we...
Yep. Except for those who write it.
Been in there a few times
+TRUCKER PAUL Hi Paul. good vid, looks like you have the same camera as myself but I cannot get my picture as clear as yours, Mine always seems to be a bit fuzzy for some reason and cannot make out the number plates of other cars, can you please please advise me which settings to use?
+Michael Cleary Make sure you removed the protection sticker in front of the lens if the camera is new, is a small sticker like a screen protector on the phone not really visible but will affect quality recording mate.
I tought they were jewish private police like they have in stamford hill and clapton london. Jews have their own police force in London.
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Another organization which depends on british tax payers.
Well
follow me ...to whom does that refer to :-)
Road tax should be increased
VOSA TOSSERS LOL