Bud143:
Stop moaning you should have half pulled onto the grass verge and got on with it.payback for holding us up springs to mind
So some/another halfwit trucker unneccesarily loses his strap again & you blame caravan boy
What did i blame him for?,not leaving a safe gap and being able to see it? Well yeah i suppose i would for that but i havent for anything else or cant you read.If he hasnt got the sense to get on a get it done and get going its his own fault and shouldnt moan.As for straps well it happens.
extrucker:
Waynedl, that level of service is unacceptable and you should raise a complaint. You did all the right things just to be let down. If this was my area, I would not be happy, especially if NO crew stopped with you. It is possible that the rolling block crew had another immediate incident to go to, but for a patrol to drive past and not stop is not good enough. If you prefer, PM me on here and I will ask a mate in that area to look into it.
Errm, if patrols 'know about it & recovery is arranged, I.e Rac, there is no need for them too stop, remember the H/S is āa place of safetyā , just people keep driving all over it .
No recovery was arranged at the time, since I had the tools and the spare, I thought itād be easier to just have a bit of protection, flashing light + I had to notify them anyway of the debris.
They suggested me changing it with cover, not me, I agreed as it was - I thought - easier than getting the RAC out on a bank holiday weekend, since theyād have to come down anyway for the debris.
speedyguy:
Op just had to pick up phone again & ask for someone to watch his back if anyone available as sometimes things get overlooked, even though they shouldnāt. Highway code rule 75 donāt attempt simple repairs, get your 'recovery agentāout, remember the vocal lobby group who insisted the hatoās under TMA2004, do not do recovery only cway clearance,
Anyway
Like I said, 1st TO was there within minutes, hats off to them - even though they missed some considerable debris which I collected when safe.
Then I thought theyād either gone off to sort another emergency - Iām safe(ish) at the side with just a flat - or theyād done their bit and it was someone else to do the covering.
When the 2nd went past, Iād been there far too long, so just got the RAC out to do it, I pay for that privelige, but didnāt seem fair someone else risking their life either, I offered to do it when he arrived but he just got on with it.
Guinness Man:
0300 123 5000 is the Highways Agency Information Line give them a ring with the time you made the call and a brief description and if you know the ERT number that may be useful and complain. Someone has made a mistake or worse didnāt care you should get an answer.
Thanks for that, but itās days ago now, just seemed a bit ā ā ā ā ā ā and was nice to let people who may have been delayed know what the cause was.
This was as much an explanation of why people may have been stuck in a rolling road block and short stoppage as a rant about the ever useless Highways Agency hoping our own Womble would see it
Bud143:
speedyguy:
Bud143:
Stop moaning you should have half pulled onto the grass verge and got on with it.payback for holding us up springs to mind
So some/another halfwit trucker unneccesarily loses his strap again & you blame caravan boy
What did i blame him for?,not leaving a safe gap and being able to see it? Well yeah i suppose i would for that but i havent for anything else or cant you read.If he hasnt got the sense to get on a get it done and get going its his own fault and shouldnt moan.As for straps well it happens.
A safe gap? Iām doing 60mph with a caravan on the back, what you want me to do, swerve to avoid it? Nutter
Most truck drivers (including myself) get annoyed with caravan people for driving so bloody slow causing trucks to have to pass them, I just get on with it, carās capable of pulling at 60mph anywhere, so it does where legal and safe. That way I donāt hold up truckers.
And, as Iāve explained, thereās no way I was going onto the offside of my caravan and changing a tyre when youād probably come down the road and go ālook at that, a caravan on a jack, letās see if I can get close enough to shake it offā¦ā or some such crap, because you sound like that sort of idiot.
As far as I know, itās ill advised to do any repairs on a motorway and illegal to change an offside tyre, if not illegal (Iām not always right) then certainly bloody stupid.
Leave a safe gap between you and the vehicle in front and you will have time to move around it ie change lane or make sure it goes under the middle of the car but that could be a lack of common sense there on your behalf.As for getting close dont tar me with those that do you dont know me.I may find caravans a pain but doesnt mean i would endanger someone.
& you blame caravan boy
, just people keep driving all over it 
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