7.5t weight limit along that road so maybe shouldn’t be there in the first place.
However when on my way to and from work along that road i have seen an artic or two spin it there to go back and pull into the industrial estate, first turning left opposite Pickford Hill, after spinning it. You don’t want any cars in Station Road and it is very tight but it will go.
Little warning if you use that road a lot, there is often a cop car sitting in Tesco’s, white and grey rectangles just below where it says Lower Luton Rd in the bottom right corner, early in the mornings with it’s lights off. They get a lot of business, last week they got a guy who overtook me by going round the right-hand side of that roundabout at great speed. There is also an unmarked black Focus ST which patrols along there. Throw in the cyclist with no lights who rides along there around 05:00 every morning at it’s a fun journey to work.
he said they couldnt possibly turn that tight, i dunno - say you’ve taken a wrong turn and this roundabout is the first place you find that you could possibly turn round on. i know a rigid you couldnt with out 150 shunts and a few illegal reversing manouvers.
incase you hadnt gathered neither of us are artic drivers, only rigids
one of these typical ones, the one i’m asking about.
If for argument’s sake there was a low bridge coming up after that roundabout and no other way round it and I was driving an 18 metre wagon and drag which was too high for the bridge I could turn the whole outfit round at that roundabout without one shunt if there’s no cars around at the time.Just treat it as an ordinary junction.
7.5t weight limit along that road so maybe shouldn’t be there in the first place.
However when on my way to and from work along that road i have seen an artic or two spin it there to go back and pull into the industrial estate, first turning left opposite Pickford Hill, after spinning it. You don’t want any cars in Station Road and it is very tight but it will go.
Little warning if you use that road a lot, there is often a cop car sitting in Tesco’s, white and grey rectangles just below where it says Lower Luton Rd in the bottom right corner, early in the mornings with it’s lights off. They get a lot of business, last week they got a guy who overtook me by going round the right-hand side of that roundabout at great speed. There is also an unmarked black Focus ST which patrols along there. Throw in the cyclist with no lights who rides along there around 05:00 every morning at it’s a fun journey to work.
yep, i was probably one of them
and i was going into the industrial estate
it is very tight, just missing the sign post opposite Station Road as the rear of the trailer starts to go backwards
Just a quick question which will only require probably 2 replies, wondered if you could settle and argument between me and my mate at work that came about today.
Can you turn an artic with trailer around on a mini roundabout (the ones painted on the road)
The Highway Code has the answer
All vehicles must pass round the central markings except large vehicles, which are physically incapable of doing so.
If you had no choice but to turn around there (eg low bridge) you could do it without screwing the whole lot round. Just pull accross and reverse into the road on your right then pull forwards and left. Simples!! That’s if you couldn’t get round in one of course.
gardun:
If you had no choice but to turn around there (eg low bridge) you could do it without screwing the whole lot round. Just pull accross and reverse into the road on your right then pull forwards and left. Simples!! That’s if you couldn’t get round in one of course.
gardun:
If you had no choice but to turn around there (eg low bridge) you could do it without screwing the whole lot round. Just pull accross and reverse into the road on your right then pull forwards and left. Simples!! That’s if you couldn’t get round in one of course.
Stop being sensible - you’ll spoil it
It’s great to see that we agree on that one Rog.That’s exactly how I meant that I would turn that wagon and drag round if there was a low bridge in my way.Who needs artics when the trailers keep falling off the back of them.
Those of you who said yes anyway…even if it is possible to make the turn, Bro in law is traffic cop and eats doughnuts ect he once told me this fact and it has been engrained in brain ever since. I will ask him why again and post the reply but as far as I am concerned the answer is a big fat NO
Those of you who said yes anyway…even if it is possible to make the turn, Bro in law is traffic cop and eats doughnuts ect he once told me this fact and it has been engrained in brain ever since. I will ask him why again and post the reply but as far as I am concerned the answer is a big fat NO
Those of you who said yes anyway…even if it is possible to make the turn, Bro in law is traffic cop and eats doughnuts ect he once told me this fact and it has been engrained in brain ever since. I will ask him why again and post the reply but as far as I am concerned the answer is a big fat NO
I bet he might be one of the same traffic cops who directed me driving a wagon and drag and a load of artics off the M1 the night it got flooded in 1998 into an even bigger flood in the middle of a housing estate near Newport Pagnell.If you reckon that turning an artic or a wagon and drag around at that junction at that roundabout is a big fat no then all of us would still be sitting in that housing estate because we had to turn them all round in a space a lot tighter than that.
he said they couldnt possibly turn that tight, i dunno - say you’ve taken a wrong turn and this roundabout is the first place you find that you could possibly turn round on. i know a rigid you couldnt with out 150 shunts and a few illegal reversing manouvers.
incase you hadnt gathered neither of us are artic drivers, only rigids
one of these typical ones, the one i’m asking about.
pull into the oncoming lane with your hazards on its only a flippping Micra, reverse down the right hand road any car coming out will reverse back or else. Pull out into original direction by using your horn to get the car drivers to pull onto the pavement, and ensure that the trailer wheels rip the nice verge to shreads.
Jobs a good un and I haven’t even had to put my starbucks down!!
Those of you who said yes anyway…even if it is possible to make the turn, Bro in law is traffic cop and eats doughnuts ect he once told me this fact and it has been engrained in brain ever since. I will ask him why again and post the reply but as far as I am concerned the answer is a big fat NO
Well then I would say your bro in law is a numpty.
(the ones painted on the road)