10 minutes and you get all wound up ?
take a chill pill Scanny, you’ll give yourself high blood pressure and a heart attack getting excited about trivial things 
sandman:
Tractors are a pain in the backside. most of them run illegal trailers with no lights or indicators. Dont get me wrong, farmers do a great job, but tractors should not be on our roads during the busiest periods.
I’ve heard the exact same statement about lorries. I think its about time the roads where left to the important people to drive on. Leave lorries and tractors to drive of a night when we’re all in bed !!!
Denis F:
10 minutes and you get all wound up ?
On hourly pay at agency rates the annoying bit would surely be the hold up was only 10 minutes, at least that is what I assume scanny meant. I mean every little helps but a 30 minute hold up would be better. Oh yeah, and backing it off a little so the smell isn’t such an issue as you hear the ka-ching. 
I got held up for 40 minutes by a boat today!
Tramper
Which spitfire is grounded so you could go pulling
Coffeeholic:
Denis F:
10 minutes and you get all wound up ?On hourly pay at agency rates the annoying bit would surely be the hold up was only 10 minutes, at least that is what I assume scanny meant. I mean every little helps but a 30 minute hold up would be better. Oh yeah, and backing it off a little so the smell isn’t such an issue as you hear the ka-ching.
this was between alnwick and berwick. my lunch is just after berwick so i make some money there anyway. its surprising how fast an hour flies by on a saturday in the hot sun
scanny77:
i got stuck behind one for ten minutes on the A1 today. while this in itself is annoying, i had to get a special trailer to follow. a muck chucker and i dont mean soil. the smelly kind which took a further ten minutes to remove the stink from my cabyou can just imagine the people going the other way looking at the red and white truck with the purple headed driver
Got stuck behind 3 on the way back to base from Dereham on the A47, doing about 30mph, but wasn’t in any rush.
Some chap in an Alfa overtook a long line of traffic and ended up getting stuck on the other side of the road. I assume he tried to “push” in and was refused, and ended up pulling onto the opposite directions kerb.
Oh, and he lost his passenger side mirror as well, taken off by the truck that he nearly rammed. 
Thing is, a short distance further on was a dual carriageway bit where we ALL passed the tractors
there are a lot of numpties like that on the A1 too. if i get the opportunity, i take it but i wont take a risk. i like a LONG clear stretch of road before i attempt it. should one not arise, i wait for the DC. im not following the somerfields driver who went for it and ended up putting the tractor in a post and jack knifing himself into a field
i got stuck in that queue too 
Denis F:
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You’ve obviously never been here before
I managed to get behind a tractor for about 10 minutes on the A41 today which was nice as it helps the overtime figures. He turned off and I carried on at a nice steady 40 enjoying the drive when I became aware of a truck behind me flashing his lights, moving to the left to fill my N/S mirror and then the right to fill the O/S one. The more I plodded along the more agitated he seemed to get. He was beginning to become a pain in the arse as he was so close it looked like i was about 33 metres long. Then what do I see up ahead? A tractor waiting to pull out, so I slowed and flashed him out. For the next 10 minutes or so this tractor led us down the A41 at a steady 20 mph, while the guy behind was going into meltdown. I was wondering if his head was purple like scanny’s. 
The tractor turned off and the guy finally got past on a clear straight section, testing his horn and waving his arms in a gesture that seemed to be asking if I had any coffee beans. Five miles up the road I pass him while he is in a lay-by having a ■■■■ up his wheels. I gave him a cheery toot on the horn and blew him a kiss.
That last sentence is wide open for comedy comebacks BTW.
Tractor drivers never bother me as i used to drive them; however the average age nowadays seems to be 14. Just sit back and chill not really worth getting stressed over is it.
A familiar occurance to those hourly paid amongst us who plod the A41
On a slightly related note though I should like to offer my heartiest congratulations to the Christian Salveson driver who parked next to me whilst I was drifting into my lunchtime nap today at Lymm Muckstop
He roared to a halt on the engine brake, switching off the motor before the vehicle had actually become stationary ( I could hear the turbo cracking ), whilst yapping on a mobile. A few minutes later he he jumps out and ■■■■■■ up the drivers wheel in full view of the coach load of old dears in front of us Yes we were parked in the front row actually opposite the toilets After, thankfully, zipping up he waddles off into the services only to reurn 10 minutes later with a bag full of MaccyDs.
Is it me ?
i was there myself today mm never ceases to amaze me the amount of people that ■■■■ up the wheel even when parked on the front row.Did you get mithered by the urtu 
.I would much rather get stopped by the credit card brigade they are much nicer to look at and probably more interesting
smiler:
i was there myself today mm never ceases to amaze me the amount of people that ■■■■ up the wheel even when parked on the front row.Did you get mithered by the urtu
Yeah they tried to recruit another comrade unsuccesfully
He got a bit narked when I had too many answers for him
Coffeeholic:
I was wondering if his head was purple like scanny’s.
i wasnt purple with rage. it was from trying not to breath in the muck spreader stink
scanny77:
Coffeeholic:
I was wondering if his head was purple like scanny’s.i wasnt purple with rage. it was from trying not to breath in the muck spreader stink
now there,s a picture scanny not breathing
scanny77:
Coffeeholic:
I was wondering if his head was purple like scanny’s.i wasnt purple with rage. it was from trying not to breath in the muck spreader stink
At no point did it occur to you to back off a bit to reduce the strength of the smell reaching your nostrils? 
Coffeeholic:
scanny77:
Coffeeholic:
I was wondering if his head was purple like scanny’s.i wasnt purple with rage. it was from trying not to breath in the muck spreader stink
At no point did it occur to you to back off a bit to reduce the strength of the smell reaching your nostrils?
come come dear boy…that would involve intellegent thought process.thus not possible…