Is it OK in an Arctic (empty) or should I go the slightly longer way round?
Take the longer route as some of those A roads are like C road in places 
I don’t know if there are any restrictions on it, but I’ve always understood it to be a big “no no” in a truck.
Pretty sure it’s an 7.5ton. I reckon it’s got to be the A386 if you’re that far down
No.
There are places you can come unstuck and become a national hero on TV and other shows like caught on camera.
You really won’t save any time using that road.
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Done it in an 18 tonner many years ago 
Thought it would a scenic route but don’t think I’ll bother 
I wouldn’t thru choice but Thompsons from Moretonhampstead must do it.
South to north is a no no from Moreton h. The old spectacle of two Thompson artics meeting at the Sandy park pinch point is at least theoretically no longer possible. But they travel both ways between the a38 and Moreton.
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Avoid! I actually did this recently, I was on my way to Launceston and had to divert to Newton Abbot to get diesel as the bunker place in Exeter had shut down without telling me and thought I’d cut a corner off to get back to my route. I was fully freighted too.
I made it OK but I don’t think I’d do it again, there are a number of VERY narrow stretches which you can’t see the other end of when you start down them. Meeting another artic would have been a nightmare. Fortunately I didn’t and all was well but I think if it happened again I’d go back to Exeter.
Just my tuppenceworth but this road is my candidate for the most ridiculous “A” road in the country. In parts, well most of it, it seems, there is only room for one vehicle at a time (even if only in a van IMO). It was even under water a few years back and there are overhanging buildings on some of the bends. As almost always with these scenic routes, there is a reason they are scenic. Also, woe betide if you meet the school bus and the long line of cars behind it. Stick to the proper A roads; they’ll probably be quicker and will certainly be less stressful. P.S. I don’t go that way for fun and my health - we have customers all over the ■■■■ place. Still, anything is better than London.
ive done it by accident in a 18ton rigid. regretted it. long stretches of single track road, 90 degree blind corners. this time of year, german coaches on tour. if youre doing it late at night then worth a gamble, day time i’d go the longer way, it’ll be quicker.
This just seems ridiculous to me. I’ve driven “A” roads that aren’t as bad as this one by the sound of it but still aren’t REALLY suitable for artics. You get weight limits in some places where the road is totally suitable for hgvs but it’s because of people moaning they want freight off our roads etc that get the MP to get the council to put a weight a limit in. Then you get A Roads that’s totally aren’t suitable that could genuinely do with a weight limit but it doesn’t have one.
I’ve looked on my road atlas now and A382 looks ABSOLUTELY fine to drive on it. Then you get people saying idiot brain dead lorry drivers following sat navs and shouldn’t be using this road. Well it looks fine to me on the atlas, and without this topic on this forum I’d have gone a head and used it! I won’t now!
Makes no sense. But that’s life and that’s trucking I guess!
Rowley010:
This just seems ridiculous to me. I’ve driven “A” roads that aren’t as bad as this one by the sound of it but still aren’t REALLY suitable for artics. You get weight limits in some places where the road is totally suitable for hgvs but it’s because of people moaning they want freight off our roads etc that get the MP to get the council to put a weight a limit in. Then you get A Roads that’s totally aren’t suitable that could genuinely do with a weight limit but it doesn’t have one.I’ve looked on my road atlas now and A382 looks ABSOLUTELY fine to drive on it. Then you get people saying idiot brain dead lorry drivers following sat navs and shouldn’t be using this road. Well it looks fine to me on the atlas, and without this topic on this forum I’d have gone a head and used it! I won’t now!
Makes no sense. But that’s life and that’s trucking I guess!
The snake pass looks fine on an atlas, and I’ve looked at an atlas when it’s been snowing outside. Can’t understand why the shut the gates
Although on my atlas snake pass is in white. The A382 is red.
Not sure if it’s a standard thing or not but on my atlas green A roads are the best, widest, fastest ones.
Out of the red ones I’ve driven they are fine to use, just a bit more twisty and narrower in places.
White ones are a no no unless I know otherwise or have no other option.
So snake pass I wouldn’t use from looking at my map, although from local knowledge I would know not to anyway. The A 382 is red and it doesn’t look twisty or anything, so had I not read this thread is have used it.
Ive done it many times. Thomsons transport do it all the time as thier depot is there. Just luck on not meeting anything. But its genrally quicker to go a30/a38 or vice versa
Rowley010:
Although on my atlas snake pass is in white. The A382 is red.Not sure if it’s a standard thing or not but on my atlas green A roads are the best, widest, fastest ones.
Out of the red ones I’ve driven they are fine to use, just a bit more twisty and narrower in places.
White ones are a no no unless I know otherwise or have no other option.
So snake pass I wouldn’t use from looking at my map, although from local knowledge I would know not to anyway. The A 382 is red and it doesn’t look twisty or anything, so had I not read this thread is have used it.
Which atlas are you using? Ordinary A-roads have white signs and are normally marked red on maps. If you mean the A57 Snake Pass, all my atlases show that in red, except perhaps Michelin which shows ordinary A-roads as white.
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I see that the A 386 has been mentioned as an alternative. While it is many years since I used this road heading for Barnstaple from Plymouth, it was bad enough in a six legger once north of Tavistock.