Car Transporters...how low can you go..in Britain...and the USA? Biglorryblog offers his thoughts!

I recall some happy days not over concerned with car transporter's heights but more into their lengths. In another life when I was trying to enforce the country's traffic law, car transporters were always good for being overlength. Many folk loved to add extensions to squeeze on that extra car. If you allowed artics to run up to 100 metres, you bet the car carriers would run them at 102 or 103. Was this good business acumen or just fraud so you could undercut your competitors? And don't get me on about how some car transporter operators used to fiddle their excise licences in the days when you paid tax on an outfit's unladen weight (rather than the current plated weight).

See the difference... humm actually no...

But thanks for making feel dumber than a doorstop anyway...

(care to es'plain for people who are not in this field ?)

Often thought i might even see a transporter tryiing to stay within the length limit by using a Paris-Dakar motor myself!!!!!

i hauled cars in the eastern u.s. for over thirty years. the last truck i drove was 75 ft
long, hauled 14 subcompacs or 13 compacs.
loaded the trucks might be 82 or 83 ft long.
some states ignored our length while others
saw an easy way to fill their coffers with money.
in almost every case the driver was deemed
responsible for overlength fines by the company.
trucks had to be kept under 13ft 6in in height.
therfore were made as low as possible.i personally became stuck or hung up as we called
it more times than you can believe.crowned
crossroads,dirt and gravel lots with potholes
we tried to avoid. low was not always better.