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Mon 10 Aug 2009 11:11

Extremely unroadworthy vehicle..... - Sofa Spud

The other day I was in a queue of traffic behind an exceptionally unroadworthy vehicle.
It was an elderly Bedford CF single-car transporter piled high with a precarious load of scrap metal. Both tyres on the twin nearside rear were flat and gradually comig apart as the driver struggled on with the engine revving in a low gear to get enough power to keep moving. Because of the shaking from the burst rear tyres, all the scrap metal looked like it was working loose under the two bits of rope holding it in place. The rear number plate was illegible because it was covered in exhaust soot.

Now, we all experience things going wrong with vehicles and sometimes have to limp along for a distance, but..!!

Putting 2 and 2 together, the truck turned off down a main road in the direction of a big scrapyard - about 5 miles away. My guess is that it was a one-way journey for the truck too and I'd love to have known whether or not it was taxed, MOT'd and insured!!!!

I can assure you this wasn't the Top Gear team on one of their stunts.

Edited by Sofa Spud on 10/08/2009 at 11:14

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Mon 10 Aug 2009 12:16

Extremely unroadworthy vehicle..... - mike hannon

I got in a huge queue a few weeks ago on a busy south-bound N route in central France, much used by lorries.
The cause of the queue was a five-axle artic, presumably a 44-tonner, that was so overloaded the curtain-sided trailer was visibly bowing in the middle. I've never seen anything quite like that before. It was just about crawling along with all its brakes smoking from the mild up-and-down nature of the road. Amazingly, it was on Monaco number plates.
Needless to say, on a road that is usually noted for gendarmes with radar guns, not one was to be seen...

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