tuktukmike wrote:
To date and after 7 years not one of my tuk-tuks have been involved in any type of accident.
Maybe if you understood the features incorperated into ours you would understand why.
We dont fit the flimsy roof supports that you will see on the normal ones.
I have had mine tested by VOSA under the Motor Car SVA which if you do your reasearch is much more involved than the MSVA.
VOSA would not pass any of our vehicles if they thought they were not safe, Cambridge City council would not have granted full hackney license if they also were not happy with the safety aspect.
Not to mention Plymouth/North Somerset Council/Newquey/Southampton/Brighton/Lake District/Amsterdam/and of course Tennants Brewery Glasgow/Unilever Foods/ ect ect.
Mike.
This statement raise more questions than it answers. To answer one sentence at a time.
To do this you would have to monitor every single Tuk Tuk that you had sold. This would imply that youe either have a very good expensive vehicke tracking system or you have sold so few of them that tou can keep track of them in your head.
"The features incorporated in them". Are you saying that a fourth wheel is fitted at the front to make it stable and handle predictably.
To strenghten the roof you must have a serious concern over them turning over. QED.
For any authority to give a vehicle with three wheel a test certificate just demonstrates the value of the test. When I was in the UK you could drive into a MOT testing station and so long as your tyres were OK, your lights worked and the steering wheel was actuall connected to the front wheel you would get a certificate of road worhtiness.
"Cambridge City council would not have granted full hackney license if they also were not happy with the safety aspect." I think that Cambridge City Council would accept anything on offer if it was from a member of the same Round Table and had the correct handshake. Bad example there, Cambridge is one of the most corrupt local governments in the whole of the UK. There are more Lodges per capita in Cambridge than any other county in the UK.
I would not be surprised if the other towns nentioned are similar. There is a common link between all the towns that you have mentioned. I bet you won't get Milton Keynes, Bracknell or Stevenage on your list.
Tennants brewery??? That gave me a great giggle.
BTW. This response is bnot based upon speculation only. I have driven a UD milk float (1 ton payload), a Reliant Robin, a Chiang Mai Tuk Tuk, a Motorbike and Sidecar on the road and raced Motorbikes and Sidecars on a track. They all handled unpredictably but the Tuk Tuk was the worst.
Three wheeled vehicle should go the same way as three cylinder engines.
