Punchy Dan:
Retired Old ■■■■:
If you were to stand at the traffic lights at the junction of Buxton Road and the Silk Road in Macclesfield you could tell the “proper” drivers just by the small- or not!- of brakes and the occasional puff of smoke from overheating brakes after loaded lorries had descended the Cat & Fiddle road. It’s certainly possible to drop down all the way from Buxton with just the odd dab of the brake pedal, relying on the exhaust brake or one of the other modern features which seem to be fitted on lorries these days and generally ignored by a good few of the regular “drivers” on this run.Proper drivers don’t bother with that cart track through anymore ,they use the new 555
PROPER drivers’ road, Dan! Most of the quarry motors still use it- makes more sense if they’re heading toward Staffs, Shropshire, W.Midlands, etc. Unless, of corse, you’re the sort of chap who takes the easy, longer way round just to let his “working classic” lorry be seen !