nick2008:
were the trucks painted Blue with tail lifts
Yes mate they were.
Saw what looked like the drivers being escorted to and from the garage in Leicester Forest East, very strange.
The trucks didn’t look like they were armoured (like the post office ones) but the went like stink!
Yep that’s the money vans also known t transport bullion . un restricted Armoured go like you stole it as they get in to town they use to get the paraffin budgie up to watch for any potential threats
Hiya…not much to add apart from remember the Transcon,s with the Armour plated split screen,s
TOP TRUCKS lane 3… 70mph i think the coppers could only just keep up with them.
John
Hiya…down the hard shoulder and away. if they cant get through they stop well before the stationary traffic.
one time i followed a police prisoner lorry out of Manchester one day, we drove down the A6 where there are
more traffic lights than you can count, just as the police lorry approached the lights they turned green.
we traveled about 15 miles through about 70 sets of lights and never stopped once. i don’t know who was
in the van, all i know it wasn’t going to stop for anyone
John
3300John:
Hiya…not much to add apart from remember the Transcon,s with the Armour plated split screen,s
TOP TRUCKS lane 3… 70mph i think the coppers could only just keep up with them.
John
I remember them in the 80s, daer blue Transcontis. Not sure about 70 though, they must have been doing 80to90, as it was everybody else that was doing 70 in those pre-limiter days
3300John:
Hiya…down the hard shoulder and away. if they cant get through they stop well before the stationary traffic.
one time i followed a police prisoner lorry out of Manchester one day, we drove down the A6 where there are
more traffic lights than you can count, just as the police lorry approached the lights they turned green.
we traveled about 15 miles through about 70 sets of lights and never stopped once. i don’t know who was
in the van, all i know it wasn’t going to stop for anyone
John
About 2 year ago 2 Wednesdays on the trot I was stuck in traffic at junction 36 northbound on the M1 and the next thing I see in my mirrors barging through in the 3rd lane was the prison truck which carries the Catagory A prisoners and about 5 BMW’s blue and twos full of armed coppers with there guns aimed out of the windows shouting for everyone to move over a lsne so they could get through.
All of us in the inside lane ended up on the hard shoulder. They must have been escorting a cat A prisoner from court hearings at Sheffield Crown Court and taking him back to Wakefield Prision.
The second week it happened I could see a bloke looking out of the window and grinning at everyone as they past and I wonderd if I had just seen one of the nutjacks Wakefield Prision holds looking straight back at me.
when i was on class 2 working for bidvest a few yr ago my last drop on a friday at grantham services and every week in the corner of the car park was a couple of vans surrounded by police cars all armed
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
What happens when there’s an accident on the motorway? Do they just go down the hard shoulder? Or what happens if the motorway is shut?
They will stop well before it and close the motorway behind them, so no one can get close to them.
They did that recently on the M6 between 15 and 16 when the nuclear convoy was passing through, shut the whole lot down including the road going under the motorway, not all “police incidents” reported by sally traffic are accidents.
as they get in to town they use to get the paraffin budgie up to watch for any potential threats
