Fellow truckers who are aware of the improvement work on the A14 between junctions 7 and 9 will understand the torture us truckers have had to endure since late 2013 through the contraflows.
Now that the eastbound carriageway is near completion, work on the western carriageway will soon start. My query is why the highway authorities have signed the approach to junction 9 in a way that all us trucks have too stay in one lane through the roadworks when you can clearly drive an artic in lane 2 and miss all the queues.
I witnessed today, two truckers heading westbound using the lane where supposedly there is a width restriction
Fellow truckers who are aware of the improvement work on the A14 between junctions 7 and 9 will understand the torture us truckers have had to endure since late 2013 through the contraflows.
Now that the eastbound carriageway is near completion, work on the western carriageway will soon start. My query is why the highway authorities have signed the approach to junction 9 in a way that all us trucks have too stay in one lane through the roadworks when you can clearly drive an artic in lane 2 and miss all the queues.
I witnessed today, two truckers heading westbound using the lane where supposedly there is a width restriction
possibly illiterate, same 2 don’t understand 7.5t in lane 2 further up!
Fellow truckers who are aware of the improvement work on the A14 between junctions 7 and 9 will understand the torture us truckers have had to endure since late 2013 through the contraflows.
Now that the eastbound carriageway is near completion, work on the western carriageway will soon start. My query is why the highway authorities have signed the approach to junction 9 in a way that all us trucks have too stay in one lane through the roadworks when you can clearly drive an artic in lane 2 and miss all the queues.
I witnessed today, two truckers heading westbound using the lane where supposedly there is a width restriction
Because they dont get back into lane 1, where it is too narrow for 2 HGV’s and take my bloody mirror off. So get in lane 1 early, or where advised to do so.
Sorry I get what you mean about that single lane which goes over to the other side, as was east bnd before, though My first sentence still applies, too where it is 2 lanes, and this happens in a lot off road works
Yep, kinda think there would be enough room, but I think its so a police car or ambulance could squeeze through, if only light vehicles are on that lane, possibly
Oh and welcome, just seen thats your first post, what you been with your life to take this long, probably having a life, well thats over now.
for anybody interested, if the westbound single lane blocks up, like it did tuesday pm when a bulker braked and his load didn’t (queuing from the services to the A6 slip), go for the west bound car lane it’s plenty wide enough for an artic, i’m sure the police BMW stuck in the middle would have appreciated somebody unplugging it, instead of trying force his way through 2 lanes of trucks when ther wasn’t any room for anybody to get over. I’m through there twice a day since the start, 06:15 and 16:15 .
tonyj105:
for anybody interested, if the westbound single lane blocks up, like it did tuesday pm when a bulker braked and his load didn’t (queuing from the services to the A6 slip), go for the west bound car lane it’s plenty wide enough for an artic, i’m sure the police BMW stuck in the middle would have appreciated somebody unplugging it, instead of trying force his way through 2 lanes of trucks when ther wasn’t any room for anybody to get over. I’m through there twice a day since the start, 06:15 and 16:15 .
Until his colleague in a BMW at the other end fills his boots, and pockets the weekly sweep stake for fixed penalty notices.
Your suggestion is ultimately very sensible, and obviously devised by someone with half an ounce off grey matter, only the numpties in charge would be even more dangerous if they even dreamed off your interlect
degsy4wheels:
I live in Kettering and its crap all the time…happy to give you shortcuts
At least there is a Greggs or Subways on Telford Way. Northamptonshire roads that are council controlled are appalling having diverted around the A14 several times. Pure lack of investment
Nice big queue westbound through the A14 contraflow today. The offside lane that is supposedly off limits for HGV’s was until recently the same lane that us drivers used heading eastbound between 7 and 9.
degsy4wheels:
Northamptonshire council have a lack of investment in most things…probably because very few live in the county
I don’t live in Northamptonshire thank goodness. I remember the first time driving through Kettering one morning. Unsure where I was, I passed the court house and watched a nice local with an alcoholic beverage in one hand abusing a car driver at the traffic lights. What a lovely place!
FerrisMAN:
Fellow truckers …
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truckers heading westbound using the lane where there is … a width restriction
Strangely enough, you have answered your own question with your last sentence, enough said
Read the whole thread.
I have mentioned today that the outside lane with the advertised width restriction was until recently the same lane heading eastbound that us truckers used. Highways haven’t narrowed the lane hence why I keep seeing artics leapfrogging the queues on the nearside lane heading westbound on the A14.
FerrisMAN:
Fellow truckers …
.
truckers heading westbound using the lane where there is … a width restriction
Strangely enough, you have answered your own question with your last sentence, enough said
Read the whole thread.
I have mentioned today that the outside lane with the advertised width restriction was until recently the same lane heading eastbound that us truckers used. Highways haven’t narrowed the lane hence why I keep seeing artics leapfrogging the queues on the nearside lane heading westbound on the A14.
its nothing to do with the width of the road, its all to do with vehicle separation, the same reason why hgvs are banned from lane 2 in a 4 lane contraflow on a 3 lane plus hardshoulder motorway.
Ok it’s a bit rough in parts, but there is a greater sense of community there than in most towns in the Uk. They’ve recently done up the town centre too.
