came up the m6 northbound last night and had to burt out laughing at this one.
“freight rules may change on nov 1 after brexit please check”
master of the obvious useless statement or what?
got me thinking that mabey jts work for them and hasnt told us ?
to be fair,the one after j44 telling you that the journey time to j45 which is 4 miles away would take 4 mins was also lit up as it was midnight with no traffic whatsoever on the road.
what sort of plobbing wazzocks do you nee to be to get a job with them to think that pish like this is relevant?
You would be driving slowly and carefully on a two-lane motorway in thick mist, verging on can’t-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face fog and on the central reservation you see a flashing light. “What can it mean”, you think; a stationary car? a major pile-up? You get closer and it’s four amber lights flashing alternately on a sign. “Must be important you think” as you edge closer, no longer paying attention to the road in front.
What does it say, when you finally get close enough to read it… “SLOW - FOG”.
A couple of hours later you come back the same way and the fog is gone; the sun shining… The sign still says “SLOW - FOG”
I regularly travel the M62 and drive straight into a fog bank. In the distance I can faintly see an orange flash, impossible to make out until you’re on top of it. It’s a matrix sign telling me its foggy.
You would be driving slowly and carefully on a two-lane motorway in thick mist, verging on can’t-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face fog and on the central reservation you see a flashing light. “What can it mean”, you think; a stationary car? a major pile-up? You get closer and it’s four amber lights flashing alternately on a sign. “Must be important you think” as you edge closer, no longer paying attention to the road in front.
What does it say, when you finally get close enough to read it… “SLOW - FOG”.
A couple of hours later you come back the same way and the fog is gone; the sun shining… The sign still says “SLOW - FOG”
“Stay in left lane unless overtaking” - no one cares, basically. Those that already know, do and those that don’t well, they don’t care
“Congestion. Stay in lane” - immediately you watch as at least 6 vehicles all around you start flashing an indicator trying to get a spot or 2 ahead before the queue
Speed limit 40 when traffic is crawling @ 4mph or not moving at all
I was on the M1 n/b around Luton not long ago, about 3am, and the gantries said “warning, oncoming vehicle” and had us down to 20mph for about 8 miles. But the other side had it too.
And yes, you guessed it, there never was an oncoming vehicle.
dieseldog999:
came up the m6 northbound last night and had to burt out laughing at this one.
“freight rules may change on nov 1 after brexit please check”
master of the obvious useless statement or what?
got me thinking that mabey jts work for them and hasnt told us ?
to be fair,the one after j44 telling you that the journey time to j45 which is 4 miles away would take 4 mins was also lit up as it was midnight with no traffic whatsoever on the road.
what sort of plobbing wazzocks do you nee to be to get a job with them to think that pish like this is relevant?
do you have better examples■■?
The Brexit signage has been ordered by the Government, nothing to do with us I’m afraid. We have to display it, I agree about the junction information, some of it appears pointless at times.
Those gantries that say stuff like “Next Junction 10 mins” - since the distance to the next junction at that point is a constant, then are they assuming that we’re all doing 60mph - a speed we cannot reach with our trucks, but will be routinely exceeded by even the oldest banger driving along that stretch of motorway?
In other words, like the AV voting system - the sign ends up being bulls hit for everyone and anyone reading it, as NO one is going to be doing exactly 60 the entire ten miles to make this sign “informative, and accurate”.
dieseldog999:
came up the m6 northbound last night and had to burt out laughing at this one.
“freight rules may change on nov 1 after brexit please check”
master of the obvious useless statement or what?
got me thinking that mabey jts work for them and hasnt told us ?
That message is on gantries everywhere, was on the M56 outside Manchester airport this morning. What a pointless waste of electric Why don’t they put something useful up like “If you get the chance, emigrate now”
dieseldog999:
came up the m6 northbound last night and had to burt out laughing at this one.
“freight rules may change on nov 1 after brexit please check”
master of the obvious useless statement or what?
got me thinking that mabey jts work for them and hasnt told us ?
That message is on gantries everywhere, was on the M56 outside Manchester airport this morning. What a pointless waste of electric Why don’t they put something useful up like “If you get the chance, emigrate now”
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way ahead of you there mate.
mainland uk can rot in its own mess.
for me nowadays,its just a transit country which suits me fine.
You won’t find that message pointless if we leave on 31st October and you arrive in Kent on 1st November without the required paperwork and are turned away and sent to one of the several HGV holding points outside of the county.
Conor:
You won’t find that message pointless if we leave on 31st October and you arrive in Kent on 1st November without the required paperwork and are turned away and sent to one of the several HGV holding points outside of the county.
And how many people driving past Manchester Airport at 5-00am on a Saturday morning would you estimate might find those messages useful ?
Seems to me that if you are responsible for sending a truck off to mainland europe after brexit and you need a motorway gantry message to tell you that you need to get the correct paperwork sorted before setting off then you really should not be in the business.
Of course there is the question as to whether the information as to what paperwork will be required is readily available, or whether those gantry messages are just part of another smokescreen so that the government can say “well we told them all to get ready, even put it on motorway gantries, not our fault”. Or is that cynical ?
Those gantries were built to improve road safety, not spread messages trying to alleviate government mess ups.
Saw a classic this evening runnin back in. The last matrix board coming down the M18 hill before the A1 junction. So we’re talking Doncaster in South Yorkshire.
It was quite a long message but the bit that caught my attention was “diverted traffic for Glasgow”!!! Anybody else see exactly what it said?
Why don’t they put something useful up like “If you get the chance, emigrate now” 
