I’ve just come back from Newport in south Wales ( 500 miles there and back ) for the first time in over 30 yrs. I was driving a rented Transit - the last time I went up the M4 was in a Transit reg No. KNG 675L - flat out at 65MPH. Stone me, the traffic on the M11, the M25 and the M4 was horrendous even on a Sunday. Nearly every wagon was Eastern European. The surfaces on the motorways were a disgrace with pot-holes every few hundred yards.
Anybody thinking of driving for a living has my respect - and deepest sympathy. I hope I never have to do a journey like that ever again. Jim.