Category: Legal

If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland and need to transport ladders, scaffolding, canoes, tipi poles etc below are the official legal requirements.

They can be found on the VOSA – Vehicle and Operator Services Agency Operational Manual under Section 26.

Rear overhang

Less than 1 metre: No requirement

1m – 2m: Render clearly visable (ie- red ribbons, high vis vest, etc) “Clearly visible within a reasonable distance to a person using the road”

2m – 3.05: Rear marker board required:

Over 3.05 metres: 2 working days notice to the police must be given.

Projections and overhang to the front:

0 – 2m: No requirements

2m – 3.05: Front and side marker board.

Overhang above 3.05: 2 working days notice to the police:

What the VOSA manual doesnt specify is whether or not you can have a two metre front overhang and two metre rear overhang. We contacted VOSA and were informed that this was the case. Therefore, legally you can have a four metre total overhang without the need for a light board.

In practice however, if you have 3 metre mini and wish to carry seven metre ladders, whether you are legally entitled to carry them or not, this will look very unsafe so you will almost certainly get stopped (You may also need to consider the weight of your poles and the cars MAM – the weight it is allowed to carry)

If the size of the load you are carrying looks unsafe to you, chances are it will look unsafe to other road users and the police. A print out of the VOSA manual kept in your car or van to prove your load is within the law will certainly save you a lot of time if you are stopped.

A Match Made In Heaven?

Why would a 38 year old NYSE company like Prepaid Legal Services, Inc hook up with a brand new internet start-up company like the Blastoff Network, the internet equivalent to a Home Shopping Network?

An Overview Of The Leading PrePaid Legal Services Provider

The inspiration behind the founding of this 38 year old NYSE company known as PrePaid Legal Services, Inc was a car wreck involving Harland Stonecipher back in 1969. While the other driver was determined to be the cause of the accident, she none-the-less initiated a frivalous lawsuit against Stonecipher that cost him thousands in self-defense legal fees.

Mr Stonecipher had car insurance and health insurance which covered all related expenses but the legal fees to defend himself from a baseless lawsuit which he ultimately won, were all put-of-pocket expenses for Stonecipher and left him nearly broke and searching for some type of legal coverage that would have minimized those expenses as well.

With no existing providers of legal expense coverage, Stonecipher decided he would start his own company that would provide individuals with an insurance-like product that would help individuals with some reimbursing of designated legal expense costs. Today, Pre-Paid is a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange and advertises 1.5 million members all owners of Pre-Paids legal expense and/or identity theft plan making Pre-Paid the undisputed leader in the legal services industry!

So what is it that would inspire a unique and largely successful company like Pre-Paid Legal to combine forces with an internet startup like the BlastOff Network?

The Answer May Lie In Blastoff And Its Marketing Strategy

The idea for the Blastoff Network came from William Rodgers, Scott Berman and Adam Smith whose combined vision it is to provide Blastoff members with a cash-back online shopping experience involving over four hundred internet merchants like iTunes, Macy, Southwest Airlines, Best-Buy and hundreds more. Blastoff members can build a network by inviting people to join them in the Blastoff experience where they too can share in savings and cash rebates from shopping online.

According to Harland Stonecipher, CEO/Chairman of the Board/President/Director of Pre-Paid Legal, “When you combine the rewards-based, ‘viral’ nature of the Blastoff platform with the large, well-developed and powerful direct selling organization of Pre-Paid Legal Services, it’s a combination that offers incredible potential.”

The partnership of Prepaid Legal and the Blastoff Network provides Prepaid with a link on the Blastoff homepage advertising Prepaids legal expense plan membership where anyone can sign up to become a member and owner of a Prepaid Legal membership plan.

How Much Does Prepaid Legal Stand To Gain?

That being the case, it’s not hard to understand why Pre-Paid Legal has struck an

million member mark? We’ll see! After all, it is all about exposure! Whoever can deliver their product to greatest number of consumers at the least cost wins! And Pre-Paid just might be a big winner in this game but only if its sales force is motivated enough to push existing sales way beyond where they are now, namely the 1.5 million member mark! Time will tell!

Show Me The Money!

I guess what all the associates with PrePaid need to be asking is whether or not they will be able to create an income stream from Blastoff without any significant effort or involvement on their part?

The real money will be made by savvy Prepaid Legal representatives who take advantage of the Blastoff website to drive traffic to it with the idea of exposing someone new to the PPL membership link and then following up with them to get them signed up as a new member. As always, the fortune is still in the followup!

Network Marketers Are Already Best At Viral Marketing

The Network Marketing profession has always be one of hype and exaggeration my opinion. Not that hype and exaggeration are not present in other industries or businesses but they seem to be a staple in MLM. Sorting thru the hype and having some real down-to-earth expectations of the effects of viral marketing will go a long ways towards producing solid and lasting results with Prepaid Legal and the Blastoff Network.

Check out my most recent piece on viral marketing, Viral Marketing Puts MLM On Autopilot! to learn more about how Attraction Marketing and Social Media can add value to your marketing strategies, click on the link at the bottom.

We live in a highly litigious society. At the same time the laws and regulations have also become so complex that we may need legal help at any point of time. Waco law is a civil litigation attorney. The Waco law is situated in Waco and deals with various legal aspects which the citizens may face in a day to day life.

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When you’re shipping legal documents with a courier company, there is an entirely new set of concerns which accompanies their shipping that you don’t have to worry about when you’re simply shipping a package or a non confidential document of some kind. If you’re shipping legal documents with a San Francisco delivery company of any kind, then it becomes extremely important that you find ways to legally protect yourself and your company from any kind of loss or action being taken against you by investigating what type of legally binding confidentiality options you can pursue with your courier company before they ever take delivery of your documents.

Any courier company that deals in legal documents on a regular basis is going to be used to the requirements enforced by the companies shipping those documents, and are usually very willing to sign any type of confidentiality agreement that you or your lawyers might require of them. In fact, if you ever ask a courier company to ship some legal documents for you and they tell you that they will not do so or that they have any kind of company policy against signing these types of documents, then you would be well advised to simply go elsewhere to try and find someone else to move your legal paperwork for you.

You should in fact require the signing of two separate confidentiality agreements whenever you are shipping something of a highly sensitive nature with a courier company. The first you should have signed is one between you and the company itself, something that would be signed by the owner, a manager, or an account representative of the courier company and by someone from your own organization. Secondly, you should have another confidentiality agreement which will be signed by the driver who will actually be handling the documents in order to ensure total protection of your company’s legal information.

Signing confidentiality agreements and non-disclosure statements is a regular part of doing business in today’s business world, and any company which balks at such is giving themselves away as a company that it may not be worth doing business with. If you are shipping any kind of legal documents, be sure to insist on binding and comprehensive confidentiality agreements with the company that will be carrying your papers for you. If you don’t, you potentially leave yourself open to large amounts of liability.

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Another invaluable source of information on legal matters is the experience of other franchise dealers. APRO allows members to network with other people in the industry in order to share experiences and lessons learned. Joining the APRO family not only enables its members to learn about rent to own contracts, but also to learn operating tips, advertising and customer retention tips, as well as making contact with vendors. Additionally, members also make life-long friendships. Members affirm that the opportunities for networking, including the annual convention and legislative conference, state association meetings, and APRO hospitality suites at trade shows, are among the most valuable assets of APRO membership. Besides meetings, there are APRO online forums which share and diseminate information among fellow dealers. The E-Communities, begun in 2006, give both dealers and vendors a place in which they can share their ideas, post questions for other members to answer, and learn how other people in the industry manage their businesses and adjust to new legal issues.

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