SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Radar19:
Anyone notice those large bees hit the winscreen with a loud snap?It’s worse when you have the window down and you feel a hard thud hit you in the chest, look down and see the largest bee or wasp laid out concussed with stars spinning around its head down by your lap your on the motorway and your just waiting for the moment it sorts itself out and decides to shove its arse end into you
Who’s been a lucky boy then! 
Evil8Beezle:
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Radar19:
Anyone notice those large bees hit the winscreen with a loud snap?It’s worse when you have the window down and you feel a hard thud hit you in the chest, look down and see the largest bee or wasp laid out concussed with stars spinning around its head down by your lap your on the motorway and your just waiting for the moment it sorts itself out and decides to shove its arse end into you
Who’s been a lucky boy then!
Now that would be saying 
Back in t’day, when I was in the military, I used to drive to the girlfriends house most weekends. Base was near Naaaaaarwich, missus was near Shrewsbury. I would make my Rover 214 nice and sparkly every weekend for the occasion, then drive like an Cypriot taxi driver between the two places, usually getting home in about 2 and a bit hours.
Calculation of average speeds was easy…I calculated how much of my front number plate was still visible. Bug graveyard. Especially through Thetford…
el_presidente:
Back in t’day, when I was in the military, I used to drive to the girlfriends house most weekends. Base was near Naaaaaarwich, missus was near Shrewsbury. I would make my Rover 214 nice and sparkly every weekend for the occasion, then drive like an Cypriot taxi driver between the two places, usually getting home in about 2 and a bit hours.Calculation of average speeds was easy…I calculated how much of my front number plate was still visible. Bug graveyard. Especially through Thetford…
Everytime I go to that part of the world, I end up killing half the population.
Radar19:
el_presidente:
Back in t’day, when I was in the military, I used to drive to the girlfriends house most weekends. Base was near Naaaaaarwich, missus was near Shrewsbury. I would make my Rover 214 nice and sparkly every weekend for the occasion, then drive like an Cypriot taxi driver between the two places, usually getting home in about 2 and a bit hours.Calculation of average speeds was easy…I calculated how much of my front number plate was still visible. Bug graveyard. Especially through Thetford…
Everytime I go to that part of the world, I end up killing half the population.
I’ve not had any deers splat against my windscreen going along that nice new bit of dualed A11 there… From just after the Elvedon memorial to the first thetford roundabout - there’s deer all over the place at night time. They’ve only put up the warning signs recently and all… Road has been fully open since Christmas, but on the other hand, the stretch seems devoid of bugs. You could go along their on a decent bike doing a ton yawning your head off, and not get so much as a bluebottle ram down your throat… 
As for “killing half the population” - I have yet to see a single six-fingered person the “nelsons county” norfolk area is legendary for. Nelson, of course only had half the number of fingers rather than an extra one. 
switchlogic:
Winseer:
chester1:
Winseer:
Insects like “Yellow”. If the numberplate is yellow, then it makes sense for more than a par number of bugs to go SPLAT on that part of a car, rather than the other bits.The real “mess on the windscreen” splats comes from Moths & large bumblebees that leave that big dollop of mayonnaise everywhere.
Bloody hell bug spat on a yellow plate ? How fast do you reverse
It’s a dutch truck - they’ve got yellow plates at the front…
How do you know his cars on Dutch plates? Or are you trying to get out of looking silly?..
I don’t need help to look silly around here… A witty retort opportunity though is not to be missed.
You could have had a stab with Mayonnaise being the wrong colour for splatted bees… It’s a bit more like Lemon Curd, innit.
Bugs ! you want bugs ? Halfway across the Hay Plain down in NSW in the car, she started getting a bit warm so I pulled over to have a check. When I opened the lid there was about 2 inches thick of Locusts all over the rad’. Had loads of fun getting 'em off and away we went. You shoul’ve seen the bloody windscreen.
Don’t you just hate it at night when one of those big moths hit the windscreen at night, & you hear it go splat against the glass, & you turn the wipers on & jet it with water ,only to find it just smears like a dollop of thick grease over the windscreen , blocking out your vision and doesn’t seem to get any less when you empty your water washer bottle 
The flies and bird crap take some shifting off the screen. Screen-wash doesn’t seem to shift it. Washing the screen or a shower of rain seems more effective.
I had a pigeon fly into my passenger window a few weeks back. Bloody [zb] myself.
A very unwelcome intrusion whilst enjoying Enya on SMOOTH FM.
They are all up in the nothern half of scotland.My windscreen is clean for about 15 mins then covered in flies and crap again.
eagerbeaver:
I had a pigeon fly into my passenger window a few weeks back. Bloody [zb] myself.A very unwelcome intrusion whilst enjoying Enya on SMOOTH FM.
I remember one early morning, still nearly dark, out with me dad in the lorry when this bloody great Owl hit the screen (Thames Trader). When we got to where we were going, we found it on the trailer in amongst all the reo that was on it. I don’t know about the old man, but I just about ■■■■ meself.
Winseer:
chester1:
Winseer:
Insects like “Yellow”. If the numberplate is yellow, then it makes sense for more than a par number of bugs to go SPLAT on that part of a car, rather than the other bits.The real “mess on the windscreen” splats comes from Moths & large bumblebees that leave that big dollop of mayonnaise everywhere.
Bloody hell bug spat on a yellow plate ? How fast do you reverse
It’s a dutch truck - they’ve got yellow plates at the front…
I’m not really sure that bugs have a choice or preference to which car colour of car or part of car they get splattered on
Numbum:
Back in the early seventies the speed of the trucks I was driving went up from 35-40mph to 65-70mph and a problem on a warm sunny day was the windscreen getting plastered with splattered bugs and flies. Even the mirror arms had a line of them. It was a hard job trying to wash them off but if you did not try and it rained it was nearly impossible to see out the screen when they were spread all over it.
I only drive a car now but can go hundreds of miles without any dead bugs on the screen so what have all you new boys done with them. Bring em back.
They’ve not gone anywhere - I’ve driven trucks recently where the screen was covered in dead flies. There was one run I did a few years ago on a hot summer’s day up the A23 in Sussex when I had them flying into my windscreen every few seconds and I couldn’t wipe them away quick enough. Perhaps there aren’t so many of them at the moment because the weather’s not that warm. But I do get them still.
They’ve ■■■■■■ off to Calais plenty of ■■■■ there ha ha …
hi all
just a quick point,when you hit a bee or a wasp their smell is left on your windscreen so when you park up beware of wasp and bees flying around and into your cab
I used to drive an old 7.5 ton Bedford & it was that slow that the flies used to crash into the back of the cab [emoji1]
All the flies are on eagerbeavers feet lol
