I know the feeling. I cut off to go into Monmouth town centre one night in search of a cash machine
I could have made it round the particular corner, only the ‘hole-in-the-road’ brigade had started putting on a performance on the street route … my escape route
Ended backing up ( bulk tipper ) & blinds side into some proxy 17th street praying the corner of the box wouldn’t decapitate some *****n medieval sandstone gargoyle off that medieval township…
Maybe the recovery vehicle was a crane? Everytime I deliver to Sports Direct at Shirebrook there is a video playing in the booking in office of a trailer being craned out of a tiny village somewhere.
Steevo:
Very silly to risk this, lorry route signposted as well. 0
Sort of signposted, as the damage to the right posts hints that truck SatNav don’t discount this route, as there probably isn’t an official restriction on it.
It’s why farms out in the sticks got bigger… dairies got wiser… drawbars became the solution . Find the lay- by… discharge load from prime mover to trailer tank. Pm rigid to farm; back to lack to lay-by couple up and same again…
I’ve had to go up roads sign posted as “unsuitable for HGVs” to get to farms.
One farm in particular, the farm entrance was immediately before a very sharp bend over a narrow bridge crossing a river. Not a hope in hell of getting across that river in one piece, this bridge was the reason the road was “unsuitable”. It was about 2 miles of winding narrow country lane before you got to this farm.
Which shows that in some cases you have to ignore the sign which says “unsuitable”.
Simon:
I’ve had to go up roads sign posted as “unsuitable for HGVs” to get to farms.
One farm in particular, the farm entrance was immediately before a very sharp bend over a narrow bridge crossing a river. Not a hope in hell of getting across that river in one piece, this bridge was the reason the road was “unsuitable”. It was about 2 miles of winding narrow country lane before you got to this farm.
Which shows that in some cases you have to ignore the sign which says “unsuitable”.
I agree and I often use roads that I have been using for years but are now deemed “unsuitable”. Seems to be a cheap deterrent rather than going for a traffic order restriction. But if you had tipped and were heading home would you chance that lane or follow the black preferred route sign?
