Tractor speed limits are to be increased so keep clear of CG!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29660929


Bill T Life Honorary Member of Wallasey Motor Club.
Licenced MSA Radio Operator for 35+ years.
Rallying is the only sport.

I didn't even realise there was a limit for them, most these days are doing way more than 25mph up an down the lanes round these parts.

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Tractor speed limits are to be increased so keep clear of CG!

Oh right that should slow them down a little then also meaning the won't fly so high off the tyres

So with a combined weight they can now run at 31 tonnes, whilst companies with anything bigger than a Transit Van require Tacographs and Operators Licence along with drivers having to have a DCPC.

You don't say. Next thing they'll need to have lights, number plates, indicators, mudguards on their trailers......... Ours - 2008 Stornoway Grey HSE Auto
Tricia's - 2006 Royal Blue Beetle Cabriolet Auto
Mine - 2014 Vespa GTS 300 Super Sport Matt Black
Ours - 2007 White Bailey Pageant Champagne

If you gave them all those NEW TOY,S they would need a few years to remember where they are and how they worked ...

ELF & SAFETY....M,lord
then they would need training (more EU grants .  Wales
Were the mud is thicker, and the ruts are deeper.
(And we have the water to wash it off, and more on the way..! )
Sd4 and chrome Ar*e piece, Auto box for best fun
09 Xs Gone
12 xs Gone
HSE with Leather seats and 4 years warrenty.. staying for now !

I can remember when the first JCB "Fastrac" was being tested in Uttoxeter, one nearly wiped me out on a roundabout as I just thought it was a normal tractor and I would have plenty of time to get on to the roundabout in front of it.
No so as it was doing 25mph+.
Also remember tales of some unscrupulous operators hitching trailers loaded with containers on to them and telling the drivers "take that to London and be back here tonight" which was at the time legal as the Fastrac could hold a steady 50 mph which is above the motorway minimum of 40 mph and this is the bad bit did not have a tackograph as it is an "agricultural vehicle".
Have to say though it is a great bit of kit for the agricultural and construction industry's.


http://agriculture.jcb.co.uk/Products/Mach...ctors.aspx

Bill

PS Just noticed on the website that JCB do factory tours at a considerably lower price than JLR Cost £14.00 or £20.00 with a cooked breakfast. Anybody interested? Life Honorary Member of Wallasey Motor Club.
Licenced MSA Radio Operator for 35+ years.
Rallying is the only sport.