The picture is not the full picture but what you can’t see is the back of the trailer which is just loaded with full pallets of cider. My question being would you take this trailer out ?
The manifest shows the load’s total weight is just above 25 tonne.
yes if sideboards were in place as the trailer was designed for
Not a chance I would get it reloaded but the weight is no problem
They’ve got their moneys worth in cube fill there 
daf3300:
yes if sideboards were in place as the trailer was designed for
The trailer has never had sideboards and only has 2 stansions either side instead of the 3 it’s supposed to have. They were bought 2nd hand and never had them since this company owned the trailer (or it’s sister trailer which they also own).
Err yes, I would. I’m not seeing a problem?
All looks neatly stacked and butting up against each other, steady round the corners maybe but that applies to a lot of loads.
There is 28 pallets in the first 6 spaces against the headboard. The manifest says 7 tonne for the 28 pallets.
crack on
Kerbdog:
The picture is not the full picture but what you can’t see is the back of the trailer which is just loaded with full pallets of cider. My question being would you take this trailer out ?0
The manifest shows the load’s total weight is just above 25 tonne.
YES!! I pull two loaded trailers like that every night between London and Lichfield and a third in London!!
with a few straps no problem 7t in 6 spaces is only just over a tonne a space unless ur pulling it with a 4x2 no probs .
You never loaded at an Italian groupage house have you! That load is sound
i was on groupage trailers over ireland and back for years
looks a lot better loaded than than most of them i took over or brought back
gotta say i would take it
Yeah I’d run with that, looks like a normal groupage load, loaded rather well too
Okey-Didley-Dokely:
You never loaded at an Italian groupage house have you! That load is sound
Heh heh heh + 1
Man up yoof
Nowt wrong wi’ that 
No…I would want the weight evenly distributed, someone swerves across in front of you on the M-Way and you need to take evasive action, it could all end in tears.
You may get a bit of tail wagging dog anyways!
I have had this on a Makro load…All the light stuff up the front and the heavy pallets of beverages on the rear…And all for the same store!
yep
Well, it turns out that them pallets on the front are batteries for ASDA (your standard smart price batteries). There is actually 18 tonne in the first 6 pallet spaces there. The back 10 pallets (what you can’t see) weigh a little over a tonne each and were for the first delivery so would come off through the back doors on a loading bay and then you would travel onward. As it turned out the total weight of the trailer was estimated by the driver to be 52/53 tonne. Overloading in this company is regular occurance along with a few other anomalies that get a blind eye turned to.
Anyway the driver got sacked yesterday for taking a trailer out to do a collection 10 miles away that had been VOR’d as it needed a top marker light bulb replacing. This place where I am push the drivers a lot to get the work done, there were no other empty trailers in the yard and nobody is in the office on the night shift what he was working so he decided to take the trailer. He had apparantly had the trailer the night before. He was pulled into the office after being allowed to do his full next shift and he said that they told him that he had broke the law, if vosa had have pulled him then theyd have thrown the book at the company and it’s op’s license (how they’d have known that it was VOR’d is beyond me. VOSA would probably have picked up on the bulb that was out). Do you think he has been unfairly treated and do you think that this is a bit of double standards.
so what`s it to be…7 tonne or 18 tonne in the first 6 spaces 
Those pallets of something bagged looked heavy enough to keep enough weight on the pin with the cider on the back. You’ve got to be either empty with something heavy at the back or something ultra-light like bubble wrap for it to get a bit twitchy.
I might put a straps lengthways from one roof support to the next or headboard if any of the top pallets looked heavy but that would be it.
