I was on the M60 in lane 1 this afternoon in the mid-afternoon jam, as usual, doing about 10 mph and on my offside there was a two axle Mercedes coach, quite new, and unusually these days it had its unladen weight on display, 13,560 Kgs, or 13.25 tons in imperial weights. Whatever do they build coaches out of these days? the last AEC Reliances with the best bodywork money could buy were a shade under 9 tons.