Why do people come on this site to issue personal insults at people?
If you can,t issue a sensible and cohesive response to a post then it only proves that you haven,t got the intelligence to make a cohesive argument to the post you are replying to so why insult the people on here such as the HATO ,s ?
Like them or loathe them they have a role to play in safety the same as you do and like you they will sometimes get it wrong unless you are perfect as some on this site seem to think they are!
As a fitter (many moons ago) who has been in the same position as “wrecktech” i.e. working on the h/s of a motorway and spending many hours repairing vehicles as I have said in a previous post I, (in them days) would have welcomed them with open arms as they (hopefully) would ensure that I go home at night to my beloved and my children.
What is better to have a fitter / driver working in relative safety of one lane closed or take your life in your hands and have trucks / cars etc. passing you a couple of feet away I know which I would prefer ?
Would you like to be the one facing a charge of “Death by Dangerous Driving” or some other charge and a possible prison sentence just because someone decided not to close a lane of the m/way so someone could work in relative safety what is the problem with having a delay of say 20 minutes or so to save someone getting hurt or killed.
Instead of castigating the HATO,s why not take up the offer from one to spend a day with him to see what they actually do before slagging them off, then form an unbiased opinion of whether they are a “waste of space” or not as one post said!
Would you like to be the police family liaison officer who has the job off telling some wife that the hubby she kissed goodbye to this morning was his last one and is now in the mortuary and her young kids have no father all because no one closed one lane of the m/way so he could work in some relative safety?
Put it another way if “YOU” are the one who is doing something to your vehicle on the h/s and someone nearly ploughs in to you are you going to say “no problem mate” or are you going to say you stupid [zb] idiot, I doubt you will say the former !
auto censor dodge removed…colingl