Truckers' expectations

To reply: I don’t have a passport so won’t be doing any continental driving. The last time I went across the Channel you only needed an identity card. For the record the last and only time I flew, the aircraft had four propellors and was built by Vickers. I do know how to convert to metric various units of measure and how to move the decimal point (2.54 & 0.2120) but I don’t see why I should either have to find my calculator or mess about searching for and opening a conversion program just to fill in some form. I am quite capable of doing some conversions from memory 5/8" = 0.625" and 7/16" = 0.4375".The vehicles I work on practically every day were built to imperial dimensions so a 6mm drill bit is not a lot of use to me if I want to use a 1/4" bolt.

As mentioned above some roadsigns are appearing in metric units -a brand new bridge height warning one has just appeared on the A20 in Sellindge marked solely in metres.