One rule for her...

I didn't realise her lorry was a 7.5t, thought it was one of the smaller boxes?

Definitely no motorway through Bolney where local radio reckon she was stopped.

Why would someone with all the money she's got take their friends and family to Eurodisney in a horsebox?!
 
perfect11s said:
I bet the dam thing stinks inside like a perfume counter at christmas... Oh well spose its better than most horseboxes which smell of horse pee/poo , mildued leather and wet jack russell, with slight stale fry up smell and wiff of portable toilet thrown in...:D
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You say that like it's a bad thing :o :D

She was caught,prosicuted and fined-job done.
Her bloody stupid attempt at a defense on the other hand :o
 
Pampera said:
A VOSA man tells me they are now setting up checkpoints on Sundays with the aim of catching horseboxes: "easy pickings" he called them.

Not only are many of the drivers not licenced, a lot of the vehicles are so highly spec'd that they are near max weight even before the horse is put in them.

Don't flame me for this, it's just what he told me!

If I was buying a 7.5 tonne horsebox, I'd insist on getting it weighed before I parted with my money. Modern European truck chassis are really heavy compared to the old Bedfords and Fords. If you are starting from scratch, then Isuzu and Mitsubishi Fuso are the lightest chassis.
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Oh I completely agree. 3horse box with more than day living on is destined to be overweight with three on, we were overly careful this time at Lincs and did about three trips with 2 lorries to be safe, but wondering around the lorry parks you wonder why you bother, some of them are so overweight it is stupid.
the woman next to us at GYS said "Oh yes ours will be hugely overweight with three on, but it's ok because my husband drives and he has an HGV licence... I think she was completely missing the point the with all the licences in the world, a 7.5t overweight is NOT an HGV (or whatever terms are for them now, sorry!) it is still built on a 7.5 chassis and the brakes are not designed for that weight. i always did wonder whether they got pulled and fined.
KP, as much as I loathe her, is an extremely smart woman when it comes to business, bright pink lorry or none!
 
RunToEarth said:
Oh I completely agree. 3horse box with more than day living on is destined to be overweight with three on, we were overly careful this time at Lincs and did about three trips with 2 lorries to be safe, but wondering around the lorry parks you wonder why you bother, some of them are so overweight it is stupid.
the woman next to us at GYS said "Oh yes ours will be hugely overweight with three on, but it's ok because my husband drives and he has an HGV licence... I think she was completely missing the point the with all the licences in the world, a 7.5t overweight is NOT an HGV (or whatever terms are for them now, sorry!) it is still built on a 7.5 chassis and the brakes are not designed for that weight. i always did wonder whether they got pulled and fined.
KP, as much as I loathe her, is an extremely smart woman when it comes to business, bright pink lorry or none!
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I wonder if shes overweight on the front axle... she certainly will be if she keeps having inhancements:D
 
RunToEarth said:
Oh I completely agree. 3horse box with more than day living on is destined to be overweight with three on, we were overly careful this time at Lincs and did about three trips with 2 lorries to be safe, but wondering around the lorry parks you wonder why you bother, some of them are so overweight it is stupid.
the woman next to us at GYS said "Oh yes ours will be hugely overweight with three on, but it's ok because my husband drives and he has an HGV licence... I think she was completely missing the point the with all the licences in the world, a 7.5t overweight is NOT an HGV (or whatever terms are for them now, sorry!) it is still built on a 7.5 chassis and the brakes are not designed for that weight. i always did wonder whether they got pulled and fined.
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An overloaded 7.5 tonne truck is not just overweight as far as the brakes are concerned, but also the wheels and tyres. Look at the wheels on a 7.5 tonner and an 18 tonner for comparison. Some people seem to think that because their use is leisure rather than commercial, these things don't matter...

If you are caught overweight, the vehicle will be impounded until enough has been off-loaded to make it legal again!

You would have to get another horsebox to come out and take one of the horses. A potential nightmare.
 
Pampera said:
I've just noticed that she claims she was driving on a motorway, but she was on the A23!
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That part of the A23 is 3 lanes wide

Also the lorry is only stalled for 2 horses which would keep the weight down, although she didn't have any horse on board at the time.

Just got this from the Directgov website

*If you passed your category B (car) test before 1 January 1997 you would also have had the entitlement to drive vehicles between 3,500 and 7,500 kg (now known as C1 and C1E vehicles).
However you can only drive such a vehicle and tow a trailer where the total weight of both is no more than 8,250 kg.
You can also drive minibuses with up to 16 passenger seats (now known as D1 and D1E vehicles) as long as you are not driving for hire or reward.
 
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Personally I don't think any of my horses would load in that thing. They'd refuse out of pure embarrassment at being seen in a hot pink sparkly horse van. Does she at least have mares? Please tell me that she doesn't force a poor gelding to ride in it.
 
wireweiners said:
Personally I don't think any of my horses would load in that thing. They'd refuse out of pure embarrassment at being seen in a hot pink sparkly horse van. Does she at least have mares? Please tell me that she doesn't force a poor gelding to ride in it.
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Do you guys know who she is ?? my cousins in the midwest didn't and I had to explain she was like a bit like Paris Hilton but without the class .......
hopefully horses are colour blind..... :D
 
wireweiners said:
Personally I don't think any of my horses would load in that thing. They'd refuse out of pure embarrassment at being seen in a hot pink sparkly horse van. Does she at least have mares? Please tell me that she doesn't force a poor gelding to ride in it.
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I think my geldings would be horrified by the colour!
 
I couldn't care less about KP but what is the problem with her? She has been fined, so have a lot of people. She drives a lorry and has a business which is unconnected to her horses, same as alot of people. AND she uses her lorry as a mobile home, she isn't the first person to have done that either (just walk around the lorry/caravan park at Badminton, not everyone with a lorry is riding there). I'm sure her license will have been checked and she won't be the first person, woman or man to be a bit daunted about the size of the lorry. So, it is PINK! who cares?
 
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