Weigh- Hey

[Father Ted]

 

How much does one of these bowsers weigh then?

 

Im assuming it was fully laden the water they were pumping down the drain to clear it.

[CreepingJesus]

Legal max is 18t for those. Even if it wasn't full, it would be hefty, the unladen weight on those is usually over 10t.

[Father Ted]

Its managed to mangle my driveway and hard-standing, breaking concrete and flags. And no it wasnt invited.

The Missus got home to discover the council doing a spot of bowsering again on their storm drain.

 

I have no idea what a domestic 40 year old driveway is rated at but I doubt 10 to 18 tons is a bit over its max.

[stuboy]

compensation??

[CreepingJesus]

I'd be kicking off about that if I were you. It's just lazy of the crew to park that there, and damage was inevitable. Drives are probly only good for a couple of tons, tops; there's probly 8-10 on the back axle alone, so I reckon they owe you for their crew's carelessness. After all, they could've parked on the road, and reeled out the hose...

[Father Ted]

compensation??

Bollocks to that, they can come and bloody well fix the damage themselves.

[CreepingJesus]

I'll second that. If they're anything like Fife Council, I wouldn't let them fix me a sandwich. Insist on a proper builder, support a local business!

[richardthestag]

Don't get the council to fix your drive, they'll make a cunt of it.

 

3rd'ed - been there and done that could be worse though you might get Skanska who are messing up Chilternshire at the mo with gas main replacement.

 

We had a cement mixer go axle deep through my folks drive and crushed the sewer as part of the deal.

 

Driver wanted to claim off us even though builder and dad advised him not to park on it. I guess he had a load on which was going to get dumped whether we liked it or not, kind of sympathise with him and he/his insurance paid for the drive and sewer in the end.

[Father Ted]

What really pishes me off is we had a run in last year when the caravan was parked there and they left rubble on the drive and scratched the caravan.

This time the driveway has been bollocksed, flags on the hard standing broken and wobbling about, dirty gloves dumped on the drive oil from the wagon dropped on the drive and the end of the drive covered in mud and shite from the drain.

They were back again this morning in a repeat performance, the missus told them about the damage and they said "tough" and refused to move the wagon.

Bloody good job I was at work otherwise i would have moved it for them

[warren t claim]

Bloody good job I was at work otherwise i would have moved it for them

 

The DAF 26 tonner above will have a range change box. Just make sure the switch on the front of the gear lever is down and it will probably pull away in any forward gear with a bit of clutch slip, if it's an auto the selector is a rotary switch next to the heater. The handbrakes on the dashboard, pull the little collar up and it should release easily. But firstly look for a switch on the dash with a light on-that will be to disengage the pto, it probably wont go in gear otherwise. Have fun!

[Formula Autos]

If they come back a third time block them in with your car. They might threaten to bump it out of the way, but they won't - they'd be in a world of trouble if they did. Blocking them in will ensure that some sort of 'management' comes out and you can get a name - a name of someone who also also seen where the lorry was and can't weasel out of the incident.

 

If you do this though, don't let them fix your drive in any circumstances - word will go round the depot about what happened, and whoever comes out to fix it will be extremely unlikely to do a good job. Get a payment, and choose your own contractor.

 

A normal domestic drive (maybe 4" of concrete) is good enough structurally for a large car, or possibly a 4x4. There is no way they can argue that parking that truck there was in any way acceptable.