Non apologetic, smug arrogance .

[fleurette]

Am currently away on the C&MC site at Cheltenham Racecourse where all touring pitches are hard standing on tarmac. We are pitched up with a view out over the Racecourse which is lovely as such our electricity hookup cable has to run over the tarmac surface too the power supply which is OK.
Yesterday afternoon around 14.00 a Carthago A class+toad pulls on to the level where we are pitched and stops just in front of our hook up cable looking for a suitable pitch, I'm sat in the rear lounge looking out at him and yes you can guess it he drives off right over our lead does a circle along the bottom avenue of the pitches and does the same, he then circles around again and stops in front of our hook up lead again by which time I'm up and out of the van to confront him.
I approach his van and he slides open his window and I say to him, I trust that you are not going to drive over my hook up lead again, he says, Oh it's OK no harm done. I said to him that you think driving a 4500 kg tag axle vehicle over a hook up cable on tarmac is OK and he replied very smug and arrogant, It's 5000 kg actually sir.
It's a good job that I'm currently receiving Chemo/Immunotherapy at the moment as my old self would have certainly reacted differently to the situation, Grrrrr.

 

[dunnah01]

Drive over our hook up cable most days for one reason or another - they are far more robust than they look.

 

[Wingingit#1]

Is your HU running across the roadway?
Or did he drive around the back of you ?
Sorry i'm not familiar with the site so cant picture it .

 

[The Wino]

It's hard to tell from the description but are you pitched in a way that means the ehu cable restricts access to the rest of the area that people can pitch on?. If so I would have thought it's either accept the cable is going to get driven over or manage without it or choose a different pitch.

 

[chaser]

It's hard to tell from the description but are you pitched in a way that means the ehu cable restricts access to the rest of the area that people can pitch on?. If so I would have thought it's either accept the cable is going to get driven over or manage without it or choose a different pitch.

That's what I thought but didn't want to seem argumentative.
Could have done with a bit more information.

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[fleurette]

We are parked in front of a Grandstand on tarmac, with a vacant pitch to our right which the cable runs to the rear of to the power supply. The need to drive over it does not arise as there are access avenues to the other vacant pitches, he just took the easy option twice.

 

[DavidG58]

Sorry OP, I can’t really see what he did wrong, unless he could have used a different route round the site maybe

If three new arrivals all came in together they would all have had to drive over your cable, I wouldn’t do anything different

Or it just his smugness which has offended

 

[The Wino]

That's what I thought but didn't want to seem argumentative.
Could have done with a bit more information.

Perhaps I only open my mouth to change feet!

 

[Tombola]

The only mistake you've made is to let an idiot get you wound up.
He probably knows he's smug.

 

[Steve and Denise]

I would only confront someone if I knew my information was 100% accurate.

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[TOAD on Tour]

I’m completely confused as to what the Carthago guy has done wrong!!?

 

[chaser]

I must admit though I am always a bit dubious about running over someone's cable but in loads of sites I have stopped where someone has a cable across the road but always get waved on by the owner.
I have come to the conclusion now that if someone has a cable out where it can get run over they aren't bothered about it. Must admit it's very rarely that we use hook-up but if we do and it's across a road I don't worry about it.

 

[olley]

If it was gravel you would be right to be concerned but tarmac should be fine.

 

[Jim]

Running over a cable on grass is OK, Tarmac will be OK (maybe), gravel will likely damage it.

 

[TOAD on Tour]

We have our MH on our drive and more often than not connected up to EHU. Something will drive over the cable every day, our car, delivery van, postie, in fact only on Wednesday a bloody great truck to empty our septic tank (house tank not van! ). I’m please to say the MH is still receiving electric!!!

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[chaser]

In general though I would think it's up to the owner to look after their own stuff on somewhere like a campsite.
If you put stuff where it is capable of being run over, you can gaurantee it will be.
Sorry but that's life I'm afraid.

 

[Wingingit#1]

If they shouldn't be using that route then put a windbreak up so they cant drive that way or whinge at the site staff about the situation.

 

[Barti Ddu]

I'm not sure it's a problem either. On lots of continental sites there are only a few EHU points each serving a lot of pitches, and driving over cables is an inevitable fact of life. Some sites look like a bowl of spaghetti there is so much cable strewn around.

 

[chesterfield hooligan]

We travelled through France last week a guy had a extention lead across the main road to a cement mixer !!!!

 

[TOAD on Tour]

We travelled through France last week a guy had a extention lead across the main road to a cement mixer !!!!

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[The Wino]

If they shouldn't be using that route then put a windbreak up so they cant drive that way or whinge at the site staff about the situation.

I often have a little laugh at the peg out the windbreak mob but seeing someone doing it on a tarmac road would be a new height!

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Them Carthago owners are a dodgy lot, I just stay away from them

 

[suavecarve]

Dependant upon the picture imaged in one's mind I can see both viewpoints, but top marks to the Carthago driver for the retort.
I always think of them 8 seconds too late.

 

[eddie]

Oooooooooooooo!

 

[Ditcha]

When I put my ehu cable where other people can drive over it, I use one of these it puts a stop to it

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[Steve and Denise]

I’m completely confused as to what the Carthago guy has done wrong!!?

He owned a Carthargo

 

[Lenny HB]

Don't see any problem, French & Spanish Aires common to see cables across the road, everyone drives over them.

 

[DavidG58]

Interesting that the C&MHC actually allow a cable to cross a road, I had a warden quoting his rule book at me for using 2 cables with a joint at Clumber Park site , the post used needed 30m of cable, probably why it was one of only a couple left

I did check later, he is right it’s the rules that are wrong

 

[PP Bear]

I’m with you on this, crushing a standard electric cable with 5000kgs of whatever, isn’t going to be good for the lead. If the internal wires are crushed, then they could split and cause an issue.

I‘d have been a lot more critical to the other driver over it

 

[Hoovie]

Being a tag axle, would the maximum load per axle be less than a lighter van with a single axle? He is doing the OP a favour with his big van I reckon.

(At no point is there 5000kg on the cable obviously)

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