This is perfectly true. A few weeks ago when the sun was still shining, i was travelling east on the M4 towards London. Just the other side of the new Severn Bridge a truck was on the hard shoulder broken down. Fair enough. But parked behind it was a foreign truck. Between the two trucks kneeling on a prayer mat;facing east; and ■■■■■■■■■ prayer beads was the driver of the foreign truck. Obviously praying. I had to look twice to be sure.
You must have good eye’s!
hope you were watching the road!
THE Person or persons in question have as devot belivers in there belief
to pray 5 times a day, just like any other of us that belive in a religion
when we carry out our beliefs.that we have. We have unfortuatly here in
the United Kingdom our transport routes built them with out building
as in main landEUROPE enough parking areas.
Yep believable.
When I was in the Gulf I was escorting trucks driven by Muslims and when it was time to prey they just all pulled over and preyed.
Another time I was doing agency work and had a job at an asian food company, as it was all handball I had a drivers mate to do the donkey work and he asked me to drop him at a mosque near one of the drops.
I stopped at a cafe and let him walk there whilst I took a 45 
was collectiong cars at an auction in glasgow about a month ago and right in the middle of the auction, about 15 of them dropped to their knees at the main door (u know the one they bring the cars in and out of) and proceeded to start praying… could have blew me down with a feather ha ha
i often see them praying at harthill services.if there looking for good service there,they’ll need more than prayers to help them.
There are a lot of people who celebrate and worship in different ways. Of course it would be better if they found places other than the motorway hard shoulder to pray, but with the traffic/parking on the roads/MSAs is it any wonder■■?
Besides, if it’s “Gods Will” to be crushed betwen two trucks, then it’ll happen…
I’m not going to get into a theological or religious debate. Suffice to say if it was the other way around you’d be moaning that your right to certain freedoms was being abused… Oh, sorry, they already are… I’ll get my coat… 
To reply to the last message , it will proberly be that the person in question
is doing what for him is quite normal as it what he does at home
and this political correctness is just cow droppings. as long as no
problems occour . Maybe the goverment would perhaps print some
form of information booklet in various languges explaining how our
traffic flows on the roads ,what is allowed and what is not on the
Highways in the UNITED KINGDOM
brit pete:
To reply to the last message , it will proberly be that the person in questionis doing what for him is quite normal as it what he does at home
and this political correctness is just cow droppings. as long as no
problems occour . Maybe the goverment would perhaps print some
form of information booklet in various languges explaining how our
traffic flows on the roads ,what is allowed and what is not on the
Highways in the UNITED KINGDOM
Yes, that is a good idea, and they could include, IN ENGLISH, a sentence on not stopping to have a pee, because, as far as I am aware, that is not allowed.
brit pete:
THE Person or persons in question have as devot belivers in there beliefto pray 5 times a day, just like any other of us that belive in a religion
when we carry out our beliefs.that we have. We have unfortuatly here in
the United Kingdom our transport routes built them with out building
as in main landEUROPE enough parking areas.
Don’t forget Brit Pete that you are allowed to press ‘Preview’ before you send a message. Then, using your finger to trace the words you have written, and going r e a l l y s l o w l y, you may find that your post makes no sense at all and you can save yourself the embarassment of being thought a real thickie by doing some editing.
brit pete:
THE Person or persons in question have as devot belivers in there beliefto pray 5 times a day, just like any other of us that belive in a religion
when we carry out our beliefs.that we have. We have unfortuatly here in
the United Kingdom our transport routes built them with out building
as in main landEUROPE enough parking areas.
Don’t forget Brit Pete that you are allowed to press ‘Preview’ before you send a message. Then, using your finger to trace the words you have written, and going r e a l l y s l o w l y, you may find that your post makes no sense at all and you can save yourself the embarassment of being thought a real thickie by doing some editing.
brit pete:
THE Person or persons in question have as devot belivers in there beliefto pray 5 times a day, just like any other of us that belive in a religion
when we carry out our beliefs.that we have. We have unfortuatly here in
the United Kingdom our transport routes built them with out building
as in main landEUROPE enough parking areas.
Don’t forget Brit Pete that you are allowed to press ‘Preview’ before you send a message. Then, using your finger to trace the words you have written, and going r e a l l y s l o w l y, you may find that your post makes no sense at all and you can save yourself the embarassment of being thought a real thickie by doing some editing.
Ok, I am a real norbert, I only pressed reply once
Honest
And at least it gets my posting figures up.
Btw, where has robK gone?
davecsm:
And at least it gets my posting figures up.
Actually it doesnt as they all say 64 posts 
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nothing unusual,i regularly prey,normally it’s that my wagon will get me back from some obscure middle of nowhere drop without breaking down!
The sad part about it is that if a Police officer had stopped this guy and done him for it he would probably have been branded racist and had to suffer the consequences.
The only thing that can make me stop on the hard shoulder is my bladder if it was my religion i think i would question the religion, the bladders fine just not as good as it used to be . ( its getting old bless it(excuse the pun)).
Regardless of their religion of beliefs the rules in place in this country apply to everyone with no exceptions. They should have been fined on the spot and had their vehicles impounded if they couldn’t pay - just like they do on the continent.
If their religion says they must pray at that exact time then they should have thought about that beforehand and planned ahead so that they were in a suitable place to pray when that time arrived.
No excuses. Another excellent example of this nanny state country.
davecsm:
And at least it gets my posting figures up.Btw, where has robK gone?
There’s a thread regarding him here - trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6954