axletramp:
To relieve the monotony on a longish night trunk, has anyone played Hit One Miss One?
No, but when I was driving for ND, I was ■■■■■■ off about something leaving the yard, and not helped that one lane of the A316 upto the M4 was shut for no reason (there was physically no one there), and following another one of our trucks I did deliberately hit a cone and watch it go flying several feet
Another one was when I hit a cone with the near side corner of a Dennis Trident bus and it went flying off somewhere, though I find that if you hit a cone accidently they flip better than doing it on purpose…
Would love to do it where I am now, but it’ll leave an orange mark on the bodywork
I had 3 of the tall ones go under a 18tonner on the A10 in france in roadworks near orleans, 2 got ejected out from under it more or less straight away, and one wedged it’s self under a crossmember, all the cars dropped back behind us , for a few km as no hard sholder to stop on, removed the bligher at the services
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Today i was concentrating on a relentless stretch of narrow lanes along the motorway stretched with cones. I wondered what would my reactions would be if i hit one accidentally. Would i veer to one side and end up on the hard shoulder or would i drive on. Do the cones squash or fly up in the air when hit.
No you’d not crash. When they were doing the A1 widening at Peterborough in the 90’s, we were so bored doing the same route 5 nights a week we used to play a game. We used to play “tiddlewinks” with the cones where you’d try to clip the flat base with the tyre which would send it scooting across to the verge. Occasionally my muppet mate would just decide to run over one. First I’d know about it was when it flicked up from the back bumper of his trailer. Never did any damage and he must have hit it dead center of the truck.
We use to Play this game in Germany whilst on exercise , we would hit the white markers on the roadside , but every fifth one was concrete and your bumper on a 4 tonner would end up slighlty bent .If you went over one with a 432 apc the track would grab and throw it up into the air behind you
I hit a cone in a contraflow on the A19.Smack bang in the middle of the road it was and no way of avoiding it.
That dastardly cone dented the front bumper and due to the unique way the truck was designed that roque of a cone severed the air to my autobox.
I came to a crippled halt with flashing lights on the dash and a warning buzzer that really was annoying somewhere near the Teeside flyover.
Beware the cones on dark lonely roads.Especially in the middle of the night.
i used to see if i could clip n skid road cones in the early hours but i stopped when i saw a chap in front do it & caught it a goodun & it flipped it into traffic on the opposite carrigeway , never done it since , must be frightening having that just appear from nowhere & they weigh a fair bit too.
i once pulled onto the A10 for oakthorpe dairy & saw a few yoofs larking about, & one of them had his trousers down & trying to impale himself on a road cone quite what the attraction was of having a traffic cone up yer @s was i fail to see but bless them at least they wern’t out mugging old people
