So I’m bimbling up the M6 near Stafford this afternoon, cruise set at 85k and enjoying the passing short skirts and summer tops when in my mirror I noticed a wide load with an ■■■■■■ straddling lanes one and two and catching me up. As I’m coming off for Stone in 4 or 5 miles I decided to floor it to save holding the guy behind me. Next thing I’m on the limiter and he’s moving out into lane 3 to pass me, so I knocked it back to 85 to make it easier for him. Needn’t have bothered, he must’ve been doing well over 100k as he passed!
This is in no way whatsoever a rant as it genuinely does make me smile when a truck comes hooning past me, and makes me go all misty eyed as I remember the pre limiter days fondly. So whoever you were with the big Merc with some kind of ocean going tug on the back I say “fair play to you son, keep her lit”
I like it too when another trucks blasts past you. The other week I was going south on the M40 just before you can join the M25, I was doing 90k on the limiter and a visbeen wagon was flying down in lane 3 doing at least 70mph , made me laugh
I like the looks I get when I go over the QE2 bridge in the outside lane priceless, only when I am running light and not at 44 tonne I might add so as not to hold too many up
wildfire:
I like the looks I get when I go over the QE2 bridge in the outside lane priceless, only when I am running light and not at 44 tonne I might add so as not to hold too many up
brados:
I used to drive a Leyland Marathon donkeys years ago, that would easily do 85 (mph), was bloody scary though with them drum brakes …
The best way to do 85mph in one of them was off a big cliff…Another pile of ■■■ removed from our roads !
Sorry. I hated the one the old man had, I liked the Transcon he had in the eighties…but I was young and stupid , not like now, just plain stupid and still loving an old 86 F12 twin drive.
brados:
I used to drive a Leyland Marathon donkeys years ago, that would easily do 85 (mph), was bloody scary though with them drum brakes …
The best way to do 85mph in one of them was off a big cliff…Another pile of ■■■ removed from our roads !
Sorry. I hated the one the old man had, I liked the Transcon he had in the eighties…but I was young and stupid , not like now, just plain stupid and still loving an old 86 F12 twin drive.
They were scary indeed, I drove a transcon with an eaton ts in it, I thought they were way ahead of their time back then. The other one I had was Scania 111, it used to eat front tyres for breakfast for some reason and I never ever cured it, no matter what the make it would use them in no time. Ah the good … (is that right?) old days.
I was n/b on the M1 last Saturday morning heading home with an empty D/D when just north of J23 on one of those downgrades where even with an empty truck I have to control the speed,when an F12 with a flat trailer hauling concrete blocks came past me,must have been doing 70!
I was sure he’d lost it,but within a mile or so,he was out of site.
bestbooties:
I was n/b on the M1 last Saturday morning heading home with an empty D/D when just north of J23 on one of those downgrades where even with an empty truck I have to control the speed,when an F12 with a flat trailer hauling concrete blocks came past me,must have been doing 70!
I was sure he’d lost it,but within a mile or so,he was out of site.
Was it white with no writing on and a big air dam on the top and as old as the hills .
With a heap of ratchet strap hanging on a rail across above the suzies?
Think of the children 