Winder and Trailers?

My company sometimes uses outside contractors when we are really busy, customers who have issues don't want to hear about contractors, (the job was given to us), to add to this, contractors price the job cheaper because we do the guarantee work, the buck stops with the retailer.

Why are Winder in the dock for this? They don’t build the trailers, they buy them inane sell them on.  Surely it is the OEM’s responsibility to type approve them?  

> man with car and rivet gun.

Who knows what the rules say is allowed. But even if that is allowed, add up the costs for pay, travel costs, hotel bills for the man with the car, time spent organising and contacting purchasers and so on, then consider how many - or rather how few - trailers can be done each day with the problems of getting access to trailers in locked club compounds, arranging things with owners who are getting nothing but inconvenience from this. And the owners will be put to considerable inconvenience, really they'd be morally entitled to some kind of payment and indeed some might not co-operate without.

I have no idea whether any actual useful modifications will be required to the trailers, but at 200 quid a trailer there cannot be much. Winders are paying a hell of a price for what I bet is simply an administrative messsup.



Edited by JimC - 18 Sep 21 at 10:32am

That's about 200 quid a trailer. If they've got to be collected from all over the country and then delivered again I don't reckon they can be doing very much else to them.

Originally posted by Grumpycat they were selling trailers that did not conform to the regs ( no type approval)

But what actually needs to be changed on the trailers other than riveting on the correct data plate?