How many times have you been stopped
Discussion
By VOSA,The Ministry ,the Police or as i call all of them The Feds ?
I found a piece of paper listing where and when i have been stopped for a roadside
check .
In about 14 years of driving trucks i have been stopped 9 times plus also once
before that whilst driving a Luton.
So how often have you been stopped ?
Have they ever found something wrong with the truck,your hours or overweight ?
To start off i was stopped on the M6 in 1999 in a 7.5 with a very overweight front axle.
I was fined £400 plus £87 costs
Over to you.
I found a piece of paper listing where and when i have been stopped for a roadside
check .
In about 14 years of driving trucks i have been stopped 9 times plus also once
before that whilst driving a Luton.
So how often have you been stopped ?
Have they ever found something wrong with the truck,your hours or overweight ?
To start off i was stopped on the M6 in 1999 in a 7.5 with a very overweight front axle.
I was fined £400 plus £87 costs
Over to you.
Personally, never. Though I have only been driving a year so unsurprising really! In other people's cars, once. Mate was picking me up from town and got tailed a couple of miles down the road by a police van, pulled cos they thought he was drunk. 'Swerving all over the road' was the words used. Turns out he hadn't had a drop to drink in about a week so therefore I conclude he is just a s
te driver 
te driver over here not to bad to be honest.
in 20 years, i think if memory serves me right, twice by the police, and once by vosa. 1 of these occasions i gained 3 points, but i was at fault, and have learned my lesson.
over the water, lost count really, sooooo many times, the french are the biggest culprit, followed by the germans and then the spanish. a mix of both police and customs, but thankfully every single time, all my tachos, paperwork, load etc, were in order
in 20 years, i think if memory serves me right, twice by the police, and once by vosa. 1 of these occasions i gained 3 points, but i was at fault, and have learned my lesson.
over the water, lost count really, sooooo many times, the french are the biggest culprit, followed by the germans and then the spanish. a mix of both police and customs, but thankfully every single time, all my tachos, paperwork, load etc, were in order
In the last twenty years once, on the A64 near York not a road side pull in operation ,plod in a Volvo chased me for five miles in heavy traffic. It was amusing watching him getting balked by slow traffic I think the bugger would have followed me home and up my drive. Any way he finally caught up and gave me the blues, the biggest laugh was the little fellow with him in a grease covered jacket could not fit his huge flash light under my car to check the tyres . fking priceless 
king priceless 3 times in 7 years.
First time I passed a police car giving way to me at a roundabout as I came off a dual carriage way and joked to my friend saying 'i have been driving exactly 1 year tommorrow and never been pulled over' que the blues and twos for a random check.
2nd i got stopped for doing 87 on the same dual cariage way by an unmarked car ad he gave me a hell of a bking but let me off! Nice guy!
3rd another random stop check as it was in the middle of newcastle on a saturday night at 3am and was a random stop for drink drivers but all was clear.
I did however get 3 points from a scamera van coming in to a 30 from an NSL and didnt slow down quick enough. They come off in aug though.
First time I passed a police car giving way to me at a roundabout as I came off a dual carriage way and joked to my friend saying 'i have been driving exactly 1 year tommorrow and never been pulled over' que the blues and twos for a random check.
2nd i got stopped for doing 87 on the same dual cariage way by an unmarked car ad he gave me a hell of a b
king but let me off! Nice guy!3rd another random stop check as it was in the middle of newcastle on a saturday night at 3am and was a random stop for drink drivers but all was clear.
I did however get 3 points from a scamera van coming in to a 30 from an NSL and didnt slow down quick enough. They come off in aug though.
in my cars , twice i can think of , nothing wrong either time just plod being nosey,
in lorry acouple of times on m4 weighbridge , nothing wrong , (caught me going wrong way , if caught other way -well over )
4-5 times by local vosa bar stewards , never been charged with anything ,
in portsmouth , every time i came through due to having tiles on and setting off geiger coiunter thing ,
in france about once a month , fined a few times , bunged em a few times , nowt ever serious tho
in lorry acouple of times on m4 weighbridge , nothing wrong , (caught me going wrong way , if caught other way -well over )
4-5 times by local vosa bar stewards , never been charged with anything ,
in portsmouth , every time i came through due to having tiles on and setting off geiger coiunter thing ,
in france about once a month , fined a few times , bunged em a few times , nowt ever serious tho
Lost count years ago, been stopped on the bike, in the car, in the truck and i've even been stopped on my boat!!
Been GV9'd twice, loose wheelnuts and a diesel leak, but the best pull i ever got was on my moped. At 16 you're bulletproof, and i'd got bored and learned to ride backwards, i could turn round in motion but i had to stop to get back, saw the police car following me quite clearly tho.......
Been GV9'd twice, loose wheelnuts and a diesel leak, but the best pull i ever got was on my moped. At 16 you're bulletproof, and i'd got bored and learned to ride backwards, i could turn round in motion but i had to stop to get back, saw the police car following me quite clearly tho.......
When I was young with motorbikes etc - loads.
First couple of cars that I used to drive like a dhead - loads.
Since 'growing up' and not being a dhead - strangely not at all....funny that!
I guess my driving style has 'matured' into something that the Police would describe as 'careful' and 'to enhance the chance of a long life'!
First couple of cars that I used to drive like a d
head - loads.Since 'growing up' and not being a d
head - strangely not at all....funny that!I guess my driving style has 'matured' into something that the Police would describe as 'careful' and 'to enhance the chance of a long life'!
rumple said:
flagged red with vosa, so loads and loads of times,
This worries me slightly as i am the only driver who does walkaround checks everymorning and when a colleague gets stopped for that bulb out 5 minutes from the yard
all the fleet will be marked to be stopped.
I work with some of the biggest muppets ever.
3 are close to retirement ,so why would they care?
I always thought that it was vehicles rather than operators who were traffic lighted?
I was stopped when I innocently drove past a weighbridge near the M1 at Tankersley. I was temporarily prohibited for two loose wheel nuts. No fine or further action as Id checked all of the nuts that morning. It transpired that the vehicle had two damaged studs on one steer, hence their coming loose.
I was stopped when I innocently drove past a weighbridge near the M1 at Tankersley. I was temporarily prohibited for two loose wheel nuts. No fine or further action as Id checked all of the nuts that morning. It transpired that the vehicle had two damaged studs on one steer, hence their coming loose.
Last time I was driving for a living,I worked for a firm that picked up dead farm carcases,
I had to take 2 sheep heads to Sherwsbury and got stopped by VSO for a check,and they found the rear brake lights not working, so I thought a fuse,but I wasn't allowed to change it myself,so had to wait for a trained fitter to change it for me.
Cool I thought, just ring around locally ,no chance ,none of the local garages would come and
assist,because of the smell of the lorry, although it was clean.
I had a 5 hour wait for the fitter to come from the depot and fix a bloody fuse.
Needless to say I wasn't in that job very long.
I had to take 2 sheep heads to Sherwsbury and got stopped by VSO for a check,and they found the rear brake lights not working, so I thought a fuse,but I wasn't allowed to change it myself,so had to wait for a trained fitter to change it for me.
Cool I thought, just ring around locally ,no chance ,none of the local garages would come and
assist,because of the smell of the lorry, although it was clean.
I had a 5 hour wait for the fitter to come from the depot and fix a bloody fuse.
Needless to say I wasn't in that job very long.
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