Estimated at £4,000.00 per day.
That's the figure
estimated by DVSA as published in their Guidance notes. You can access these
notes by clicking this link.
The DVSA stops more than 15,000 vans a year. And of those stopped,
almost 84% of them were found to be overloaded. In fact, overloading was the
single biggest fault found with vans by some considerable margin.
Unlike Large Goods
Vehicles, that is anything over 3,500kg gross weight, vans can be operated by
anyone. No special licence or training is required and yet there are estimated
to be around 3.6 million of them on our roads.
Many of them are obviously making deliveries, supermarket home delivery
vans and parcel delivery vans but often they are seen as a mobile toolbox.
Axtec OnBoard - prevents van overloads |
In those cases the driver of the van is employed as something else
– a service engineer or installation engineer – and little thought is given to
the van they drive with the emphasis being on how many physical tools or
equipment they can get in the back rather than the weight of it.
The design weight of the van though must not be exceeded. The
design gross weight includes the van, the driver and any passengers, fuel, the
load and anything else that happens to be in the van.
And these days, most drivers and passengers will be kitted out
with safety boots, hard hats, hi-viz jackets etc all of which add weight to the
vehicle.
The cost of having a van stopped is far in excess of any fine that
may be applied. Finding another van and driver and then sending them possibly
miles to the prohibited vehicle is very costly.
Or how about the time and effort that might need to go into preparing
a case and attending court?
And with your van prohibited you’re not getting to the job. That
delivery isn’t being made. The vital piece of equipment isn’t being serviced. Your
customer is being let down.
The bad will that a late delivery or missed service call generates
could cost your company considerably.
Overloading a van is something that is costly and needs to be
avoided so Axtec offer a range of systems to prevent it with prices starting
under £1,000.00
So which could you
afford more?
I would guess it’s certainly not the £4,000.00 the DVSA estimate
it could be costing you.
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