Commercial Vehicle Road Sign
Discussion
Was driving a rented 7.5 ton to ExCeL for work yesterday. I was about to enter the Limehouse Link Tunnel from central London when I noticed a sign similar to this:
I bottled it and went the long way round, much to my boss's displeasure (was already late). I was going to show him the sign today on our way back, but there isn't one if you are coming into town from Docklands. The Highway Code book in the local garage couldn't help and nor could the Internet (so far).
What does the sign mean? My best guess is 'no tarpaulin-covered loads'. But that is a wild stab in the dark...
I bottled it and went the long way round, much to my boss's displeasure (was already late). I was going to show him the sign today on our way back, but there isn't one if you are coming into town from Docklands. The Highway Code book in the local garage couldn't help and nor could the Internet (so far).
What does the sign mean? My best guess is 'no tarpaulin-covered loads'. But that is a wild stab in the dark...
Dangerous goods-
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/microsites/freight/1131.aspx
You did a long detour if you had regular freight on!
Bit of a worry you don't know what that sign means driving a truck tbh.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/microsites/freight/1131.aspx
You did a long detour if you had regular freight on!
Bit of a worry you don't know what that sign means driving a truck tbh.
I think I may have had a tin of emulsion on the back, so it's just as well I detoured. The link lists paint as a dangerous substance, but I bet a few tins of Dulux have been through that tunnel.
I don't think it's that much of an inditement of my driving that, having noticed a restriction sign that is not very common, and not known its meaning, I used an alternative route to avoid possible issues. I only drive 7.5s maybe a dozen times a year (fairly reluctantly as they come from a very dodgy hire company). I've got my drivers card and try and follow regs. but if I refuse to do it, my boss will find someone that will.
Why is the sign on one end of the tunnel and not on the other?
I don't think it's that much of an inditement of my driving that, having noticed a restriction sign that is not very common, and not known its meaning, I used an alternative route to avoid possible issues. I only drive 7.5s maybe a dozen times a year (fairly reluctantly as they come from a very dodgy hire company). I've got my drivers card and try and follow regs. but if I refuse to do it, my boss will find someone that will.
Why is the sign on one end of the tunnel and not on the other?
only guessing here, but no point in having the same sign at the end of the tunnel when its already to late 
btw, you'd have been alright i think with your tin of paint, it would come under limited quantities.
i don't have a haz-chem licence, so couldn't carry a big drum or i.b.c type container of haz goods, not even 1, and yet i could back in the day carry a full load of aerosol cans, 26 pallets without any problem at all. bonkers.
btw, you'd have been alright i think with your tin of paint, it would come under limited quantities.
i don't have a haz-chem licence, so couldn't carry a big drum or i.b.c type container of haz goods, not even 1, and yet i could back in the day carry a full load of aerosol cans, 26 pallets without any problem at all. bonkers.
GC8 said:
Digby said:
iguana said:
Dangerous goods-
Bit of a worry you don't know what that sign means driving a truck tbh.
Worry some more.I have never even seen that sign before Bit of a worry you don't know what that sign means driving a truck tbh.
Never seen that sign before and I have been in the trade 20+ years.
We carry very little in the way of hazardous goods anyway so I suspect if we did we would have come across this sign before, part of the extra training tanker drivers and the like get.
Out of curiosity I wonder how many different signs there actually are in this country ? my bet is that by the time you add in the special signs Councils like to make up it is in the thousands.
We carry very little in the way of hazardous goods anyway so I suspect if we did we would have come across this sign before, part of the extra training tanker drivers and the like get.
Out of curiosity I wonder how many different signs there actually are in this country ? my bet is that by the time you add in the special signs Councils like to make up it is in the thousands.
GEARJAMMER said:
Yep, im another HGV driver whos never seen that sign....... but, i do consider myself to be quite clued up, if the lorry on the sign was ORANGE instead of yellow like a Haz chem board i would probably have realised what it meant!
I think the lorry is Orange in reality.Hasn't come across in OPs pic maybe.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...
No sign of it in the DoT roadsign guide, so Im not sure about its legal status. I did fond 'No Explosives', which is a 'No Motor Vehicles' pictogram with a yellow explosion on top!
No sign of it in the DoT roadsign guide, so Im not sure about its legal status. I did fond 'No Explosives', which is a 'No Motor Vehicles' pictogram with a yellow explosion on top!
iguana said:
Dangerous goods-
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/microsites/freight/1131.aspx
You did a long detour if you had regular freight on!
Bit of a worry you don't know what that sign means driving a truck tbh.
Hardly. I have an HGV licence and I havent ever seen one before, despite being familiar with all DoT road signs. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/microsites/freight/1131.aspx
You did a long detour if you had regular freight on!
Bit of a worry you don't know what that sign means driving a truck tbh.
Its actually a TFL sign I believe, and found in what; five locations in that London?
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