Safety Blitz on Caravans on Bruce H/way near Childers

KFT · Guru

RE: Safety Blitz on Caravans on Bruce H/way near Childers

justcruisin01 · Guru

Dont know of that on Frank , I check the one at Chinderah, NSW today & its for the over 4.5t GVM .

KFT · Guru

G'day JC

I drove past Kankool twice a day for 20 years so the sign is "imprinted" on my memory mainly because when open the speed limit drops from 100 to 70 and sometimes they knock off and close the place and leave the bloody 70 kmh signs on. really pi55e5 people off I can tell you.

coppers used to have a speed blitz there now and then and did good business(none from me)

got a few spits of rain today but would love a lot more.

stay safe

frank

Blue · Senior Member

Phillipn wrote:
Their was a safety blitz on caravans near Childers yesterday as per another forum,
it was reported that 4 vans were still on the side of the highway at 10 pm last night for being over loaded. Any one know more details.

and that's another reason why you should be putting on lightweight Flexible Solar panels... over a couple of panels it could save you 20 kilograms or more...

-- Edited by Blue on Monday 13th of October 2014 07:39:32 PM

Plendo · Guru

Spot on Blue, that is exactly why I went to the effort of fitting semi flexible s, saved about 140kg, then getting rid of the roof top air con we reduced the weight of the roof by another 45kg.

Blue · Senior Member

Plendo wrote:
Spot on Blue, that is exactly why I went to the effort of fitting semi flexible s, saved about 140kg, then getting rid of the roof top air con we reduced the weight of the roof by another 45kg.

interesting..

we've had this new van for over a year now and not once have we turned it on... lol

not saying that we wont... we mainly free camp so don't use electricity as such.. heating is a Diesel heater which runs off the solar Batteries

Plendo · Guru

I didn't say I didn,t have an air conditioner, I just got rid of the weight off the roof. I run a split system with the compressor on the back bumper, it is about 13kg lighter than the roof top unit, and the weight is significantly lower. It also works a lot better being quieter, and more efficient.

Before anyone jumps on me about adding weight to the back bumper, we moved the spare forward to compensate.

justcruisin01 · Guru

So many people add on so much extra equipment after the van has been built they exceed the payload before stepping inside. Water tanks.solar.batteries. tool boxes etc etc. Then add their water a gas a the payload is exceded.

Our new unit will have any extras fitted during the build process. All their vans are then weighed on completion. Then the payload is added. A 700kg so there should be no problems with overloading.