genuine pic

Excellent!

I wonder how many people would need to hang on the end of the ladder to lift the front wheels of the van off the ground?

Its a real shame that dropbox do not allow a more descriptive link to be made. It seems to just use the filename of the file. Brian

It's a photo of a smallish van belonging to Brad's Aerials, with a set of ladders on a roof rack - including one very long one which extends about a van's length beyond the back of the van.

A case of "overhanging load" if ever there was one!

Surely 2/3 of that additional overhang could be eliminated by moving the roof ladder forward 3 or 4 rungs.

The mind boggles!

What is the legal overhang BTW?

With or without a marker? I don't think the marker being used is very good, they could at least have used a hi-vis item of clothing.

Found a preview of a document that was on the DfT site....

Not exceeding 1 metre

Front and rear: No requirements specified.

Rear: End must be made clearly visible. (C&U Schedule 12, para 4)

Front: No requirements specified.

Rear: Marker boards required (C&U Schedule 12, para 3)

Front: Attendant required (C&U Schedule 12, para 2) Marker boards required (C&U Schedule 12, para 3)

Rear: Two clear working days notice to Police (C&U Schedule 12, paragraph 1) Attendant required (C&U Schedule 12, paragraph 2) Marker boards required (C&U Schedule 12, paragraph 3)

Front: Two clear working days notice to Police (C&U Schedule 12, paragraph 1) Attendant required (C&U Schedule 12, paragraph 2) Marker boards required (C&U Schedule 12, paragraph 3)

Going by that they should have notified the Rozzers and have had proper red and white marker boards.

Slide the roof-ladder forward so it overhangs the front by a metre and hang a hi-vis off the back and I think they would be legal.

It has got something dangling off the back, but not what you would call highly visible...

(that seems to be a very long single piece roof ladder!)

Yes it could! But he's been driving about round here like that for yonks. I had a picture months ago but it wasn't clear.

Bill

Bill

Just one Were-Rabbit Gromit!!!!

That should make reversing interesting!

Hope there's no one on the pavements when he does a U turn.

How much effort would it take to rip the roof-bars out of their mountings?

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall rip the lid off this van." Archimedes

I think he actually said "????? ??? ??? ????? ?????? ?????? ??????? ???????? ??? ??? ????????? ??? ????? ??? ?? ?? ????????????, ??? ??? ?? ?????? ?? ?????? ??? ???? ?? ???????."

Hmm, yes that type of overhand is not legal though. Obviously has not heard of folding ladders then. Sounds like a prop from an old Eric Sykes silent comedy.

Brian

?????? ???????

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That's all Greek to me

Psammead.

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Did you know? There are two 'e's in Greek?

(Take that whichever way you want.)

In addition to a normal extending ladder he seems to have a very long non extending (ans so non collapsing or folding) roof ladder (21 rungs by the look of it).

You could well imaging some "the plank" like antics as he goes round corners, swatting pedestrians off the pavement!

I bet that's modern Greek. What would be the ancient Greek for truck?