She wasn’t blonde or 96 years old. She was a brunette, mid-30’s ish and didn’t seem to be particularly scared of the situation or bothered by the enormous queue building up. She wasn’t weaving about or changing speeds constantly, just sitting there. She had a lad of about ten with her in the front and a load of rubbish in the rear but they weren’t deep in conversation or anything. She was very contented with the whole situation.
TBH, although I knocked it back 2 or 3 mph I wasn’t really sure I wanted her in front of me but when she did finally come by she came past about 65 and pulled in a good distance in front of me. I took the next junction and she was still cruising away from me. Very odd.
Fwiw, if it had been a wagon I’d have slowed and let him in infront of me. I never speedlimiter race, its annoying for everyone and does truck drivers no credit at all.
All in all very bizarre. I can well believe she fancied me though!
In days of old we used to have a handy gadget just for morons who sat by your back axles for mile upon mile it was called a deadman handle, keep your foot to the floor and quick pull on the handle would just put just the trailer brakes on and send a loud squeal from the tyres plus a cloud of smoke, surprising how quickly they moved off, perhaps not the done thing now days but it worked a treat back then, oh happy days.
The best bit of Lorry racing I ever saw was between 2 artics and started at Leicester Forest on the M1 and ended when the Lorry on he inside lane turned off for Lutterworth.
It amused me greatly at the time and still does now when I think about how stupid,arrogant and oblivious some people are.
OssieD:
In days of old we used to have a handy gadget just for morons who sat by your back axles for mile upon mile it was called a deadman handle, keep your foot to the floor and quick pull on the handle would just put just the trailer brakes on and send a loud squeal from the tyres plus a cloud of smoke, surprising how quickly they moved off, perhaps not the done thing now days but it worked a treat back then, oh happy days.
Ossie
Forgot all about the Dead Mans Handle Ossie,I used that device on a downward hill in Redhill,just outside a petrol station,ended up going sideways down the hill,hitting a sports car,Sunbeam Alpine I think,the cops blamed it on the petrol station having just swilled a large diesel spillage onto the road,making it slippery!!
Hi, 5th wheel, good Monica that,
I remember coming down the old bit of the M1 in a Scammel coupled D series Ford, the deadman handle and the Scammel coupling release handle where side by side between the seats, there was I merrily playing along to the Shadows on my transistor radio turned up to full volume, pulling on what I thought was the deadman handle only after few miles to realise it was the release handle for the coupling, wet my pants thinking about what could have happened if I had hit a high cord, as for going side ways using the deadman, frightened the life out of a Shell tanker driver one evening when the trailer started to slide going in the opposite direction to him, it had its good points but could be bloody dangerous at other times. Sorry to go off thread a bit. Still they were happy days.
A couple of years back I clocked an EWALS (trying to do the passing) alongside a Bentons for 38 kms on the M18 and M62 westbound, and they had been at it before then which is why I decided out of curiosity to check the distance before he got passed,which included having another go on the slip road to the 62 after he had clearly failed on the M18.I was limited to 52 at the time but they did’nt make much progress away from me though seemed to have sorted themselves out around Selby,this was early between 0400 and 0500 so there was little about but I dont suppose it would have made any difference to these two.I’m baffled why you would want another wagon wafting around alonside you for any length of time,lift off and let him go,the sky won’t cave in.
