Holy Shit...!!!

[Shaun]

I say call the police and have them charged

as well as, put the companies email address and phone number on here

[avgas]

Thats it, im buying a quad with a busa mota!

[Beemer]

Ditto to laying a complaint with the police and I'd also contact the council as well. Mention to both that you rang the company to alert them to the driver's practice and the person who answered the phone didn't give - pardon the pun! - a shit. Say you thought the driver may have been unaware of the problem but the response from this person confirmed in your mind that it was a common practice with this company. Hopefully they will get done good and proper.

I know people will say you wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway, but in Levin the stock trucks travel along SH1 which is also the main road, so you can imagine how revolting it is whenever a cattle truck goes through - especially in summer. Not nice if you're standing in the middle of the road waiting to cross, that's for sure!

[Ixion]

I often come accross "Country Ice" (Cow Shit on the road) up my way. The Stock Trucks up here have a bad habbit of "spilling" there overloaded tanks on the tight corners. Love ta catch one of the buggers but don't like my chances of getting anything done about it. There are still a few cattle crossings on the road around here to. They are especially bad ta come accross around milkings. There is also a lot of mud on these roads to at the moment, mainly due to the mud of the tractor tyres as the farmers go down the roads with the hay and feed from 1 part of the their farm to another.

My point: Ride expecting that there is "shit" on the road at all times, especially in country areas and especially at this time of year (milking has started and the paddocks are f*cken muddy). Sure report the bad truckie were ya can find them, but stay alive and upright by riding in such away as to be able to respond to finding this shit on the road. If ya riding ta ya limit in these conditions ya have nothing left ta save ya bike at the last moment. Continue down this track you ran the risk of joining the "Fencing Club" (see the pics of in "A Post About A Post" ).

PS: this is not a post picking on anyone, it's just a friendly reminder for all of us ta be careful out there, OK.

Yup, country roads are country roads. Used for country stuff. 'Tis part of the rural world, and those roads are really there for the farmers' benefit not ours. 'Tis the farmers' rates pay for them, we're lucky to be able to use them.

Just expect anything, be able to stop in the clear hazard free distance ahead.

Had a bit of a stop at out Glen Murray way last weekend , herd of cows gotten out an open gate all over the road. Cockie rounding them up while his wife stopped traffic. I chatted to her while waiting , she was really grateful for someone not bitching at her about the delay, or ignoring her and plowing on into the midst of the cattle , and spooking them all over again. Sad , really.