I “ignore” them sometimes… For example leaving a drop in Blackburn and heading back to the M66/M62 is something like 9 miles shorter via the B6232… Of course the B6232 is a 7.5 tonne weight limit “except for access”
The official lorry route is onto the M65, then the A56 /M66 and finally the M62. This route is obviously longer and adds an extra 25 minutes or so to the overall journey time.
The way I see it is I need to use the B6232 to get access to the A56/M66 so why not?
Mostly I do respect weight though though.
tomB94:
Same as above really, i get sent out to houses and farms miles from civilization so ignore the ‘unsuitable for hgvs’.
Then you get the farmers wives in their range rovers giving you the waving finger, how else do they think their supplies get to them!
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I rather think that these won’t be farmers’ wives, but townies who’ve moved out to the sticks.
Contrary to popuylar myth, very few farmers, or their wives, own or drive Range Rovers.
Yes they’re usually in Mercedes or Audis with “Buy British Produce” stickers in the rear window
tomB94:
Same as above really, i get sent out to houses and farms miles from civilization so ignore the ‘unsuitable for hgvs’.
Then you get the farmers wives in their range rovers giving you the waving finger, how else do they think their supplies get to them!
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I rather think that these won’t be farmers’ wives, but townies who’ve moved out to the sticks.
Contrary to popuylar myth, very few farmers, or their wives, own or drive Range Rovers.
Yes they’re usually in Mercedes or Audis with “Buy British Produce” stickers in the rear window
4yorks:
I “ignore” them sometimes… For example leaving a drop in Blackburn and heading back to the M66/M62 is something like 9 miles shorter via the B6232… Of course the B6232 is a 7.5 tonne weight limit “except for access”
The official lorry route is onto the M65, then the A56 /M66 and finally the M62. This route is obviously longer and adds an extra 25 minutes or so to the overall journey time.
The way I see it is I need to use the B6232 to get access to the A56/M66 so why not?
Mostly I do respect weight though though.
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So what you appear to be saying is that your convenience (saving a few minutes on your day, in this case) is more important than complying with the law…? Really?
4yorks:
I “ignore” them sometimes… For example leaving a drop in Blackburn and heading back to the M66/M62 is something like 9 miles shorter via the B6232… Of course the B6232 is a 7.5 tonne weight limit “except for access”
The official lorry route is onto the M65, then the A56 /M66 and finally the M62. This route is obviously longer and adds an extra 25 minutes or so to the overall journey time.
The way I see it is I need to use the B6232 to get access to the A56/M66 so why not?
Mostly I do respect weight though though.
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So what you appear to be saying is that your convenience (saving a few minutes on your day, in this case) is more important than complying with the law…? Really?
Every time someone breaks a speed limit they are doing just that.
No justification at all, but so common as to be invisible maybe?
The laws here are different and ridiculous, you don’t know about the limit until you have turned into the road with the weight limit on and then you have no way to turn around, I was caught out a few weeks back in the northern part of Vermont when I turned right on a street in Enosburgh Falls and saw a sign with 22,000 lbs gross weight limit, from experience I knew that halfway along there would be a cop waiting so I reversed into a bank car park much to the annoyance of some local bloke and I turned and went back. It’s common here, I know of a bridge in Massachusetts with a weak bridge about 3 miles along it, there is now early warning so you have no choice but to cross it, one morning I went over and a cop was watching, I had a delivery just the other side and asked the guy why the cop didn’t give me a ticket ? “It’s the bridge law” he said "never at any point was your entire truck on the bridge, when the tractor was on the bridge, the trailer was not and when the trailer wheels were on it the tractor had cleared it.
tomB94:
Same as above really, i get sent out to houses and farms miles from civilization so ignore the ‘unsuitable for hgvs’.
Then you get the farmers wives in their range rovers giving you the waving finger, how else do they think their supplies get to them!
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I rather think that these won’t be farmers’ wives, but townies who’ve moved out to the sticks.
Contrary to popuylar myth, very few farmers, or their wives, own or drive Range Rovers.
Yes they’re usually in Mercedes or Audis with “Buy British Produce” stickers in the rear window
4yorks:
I “ignore” them sometimes… For example leaving a drop in Blackburn and heading back to the M66/M62 is something like 9 miles shorter via the B6232… Of course the B6232 is a 7.5 tonne weight limit “except for access”
The official lorry route is onto the M65, then the A56 /M66 and finally the M62. This route is obviously longer and adds an extra 25 minutes or so to the overall journey time.
The way I see it is I need to use the B6232 to get access to the A56/M66 so why not?
Mostly I do respect weight though though.
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So what you appear to be saying is that your convenience (saving a few minutes on your day, in this case) is more important than complying with the law…? Really?
Every time someone breaks a speed limit they are doing just that.
No justification at all, but so common as to be invisible maybe?
Ei thought he was going to say every time a speed limit is broken a fairy dies
I used to deliver pallets in East Birmingham. There is a whole area around Coleshill with weight limits (except for access). In my 18 tonner, I regularly ‘ignored’ them because the long way round was really long. Sometimes I would get the evils from people in their front gardens, or those having to pull over to let me past but that was fairly rare.
On one occasion I drove down a single track road that I had never used before (well - the map [no satnav then] said it was the shortest route). Mostly it was just fields, but then, as I approached a small row of cottages, I saw a man talking to someone in a landrover. They must have heard me coming as the Landy reversed out of the way. The man, however, stepped out into the road and stopped me. “Here we go,” I thought, expecting a load of abuse. “I’ll tell him I got lost.” He had actually stopped me to tell me that there were some roadworks ahead which meant that I could only turn left at the next junction - no problem for me since that was the way I was going.
