What is it for?

FlutterinBantam

As you go North on the M1 just north of the Lissenhall Junction ,there is a layby type slip road with a barrier at the northern end.

I never saw anything,anybody, using,abusing,stopping,working in it,around it,beside it,inside it or outside it!!


What the fook is it for?????????

Rabies

Could be for customs checks?

Wishbone Ash

FlutterinBantam wrote:

As you go North on the M1 just north of the Lissenhall Junction ,there is a layby type slip road with a barrier at the northern end.

I never saw anything,anybody, using,abusing,stopping,working in it,around it,beside it,inside it or outside it!!


What the fook is it for?????????

It's for setting up a mobile weighbribge for trucks to ensure that they are complying with the statutory weight limits. There's another conventional type one nearby on the dual carriageway (R132-old N1) just south of the Statoil station.

Victor

Another near Midelton on the N25 westbound I think.

DerekP11

And two dedicated ones on the N7.

One outbound just before Kill and one inbound at Baldonell. Both used regularly.

Obviously, the lads on the M1 are a bit slack, because Ive never seen it being used either.

FlutterinBantam

Wishbone Ash wrote:

It's for setting up a mobile weighbribge for trucks to ensure that they are complying with the statutory weight limits. There's another conventional type one nearby on the dual carriageway (R132-old N1) just south of the Statoil station.

Hmmm... presume they will be putting in scales sometime soon... 2010-2012 perhaps??

She's lying fallow for the last 4 years.

sandyg

On rare occasions ive seen the gardai and customs stop lorries and cars there. Usually about 11.00 am.

Andrew Duffy

FlutterinBantam wrote:

Hmmm... presume they will be putting in scales sometime soon... 2010-2012 perhaps??

She's lying fallow for the last 4 years.

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Wishbone Ash wrote:

It's for setting up a mobile weighbribge

FlutterinBantam

Andy auld horse ,they still have to put the thing in dont they.Like drive it in???
I havn't ever seen any activity around there ever ever ever.

It can't be like the one I have for weighing flour surely,;)

Wishbone Ash

FlutterinBantam wrote:

Andy auld horse ,they still have to put the thing in dont they.Like drive it in???

It's a mobile 'weighbridge' but it's not a vehicle. It consists of a series of electronic pads. You drive your truck in and they place the pads in front of each wheel. You then drive forward onto the pads and the machine calculates the truck's weight.

Wishbone Ash

FlutterinBantam wrote:

She's lying fallow for the last 4 year

?????? That section of the M1 opened in June 2003. The layby for the weighbridge was constructed a good while after the motorway opened!!!

FlutterinBantam

Jaysus..:eek:

There I was tooling up the M1,just north of the Lissenhall Interchange when I seen it!!!.. sorry, saw it.Big lorry pulled in just at the yoke we are talking about,time 1050.Wow! says I to myself,we'll see this fcuker in action right now,Il'l be on boards tonight giving the real lowdown on what its for.

Pssssssssssssst.... Just a truck pulled in front of it with a dude having a sambo.

I took a good look at the "thing",weeds growing out of it ,unkept ,unused,even the exit seems too small for a big truck??

I remain in puzzlement mode