The beaver was flying round the yard like a kite today trying to keep hold of the curtains.
Dented:
Boss recommends the route.
Your boss must have a fold in his map my friend. It’s up the A1 A1m all the way to Edinburgh from Newark. I came up from Leicester to Newcastle today in an empty double decker, it’s windy but nothing too serious, never felt there was any chance of going over.
Oh & when I came past at around 13:45 the A66 was closed to high siders, you don’t find that out until you’re quite near to scotch corner.
Should be fully loaded at 44t gvw tonight, chilled to -30c…
Thanks to all for the advice 
Just come down from falkirk via edinburgh and the a1 to scotch corner. Windiest bit is scotch corner to newcastle. North of that is fine. Oh i was in a tautliner at 30ton
I know it’s only a small stretch but Inbetween jct 33 & 34 heading north on the m6 was in my car and the trailer In front lifted right up I thought is was going over its a nasty little stretch
pxxxxd me off big time today 31 3 15, opened a curtainsider both sides,and as you all know if you pull a curtainsider try closing them in high wind,if its not that you have to keep ducking to avoid your head being cracked open,took me nearly 20 min just to put the front pole in today cos of the bloody wind
Same truckman. Both curtains open and I was at a garden centre up near Preston on a really exposed yard.
Nightmare getting the poles in. Unlike our government since 2004.
dcgpx:
Go faster stripes don’t get fitted till 6th April
And don’t apply in Northen Ireland or Scotland. The exception being the A9.
Sorry I meant between 32 & 33 m6
lizard:
Newark to Edinburgh would be A1, A66, M6, M74, M8.
If the A66 is closed then I would go A1, A697, A68.
never go all the way up to Edinburgh on the A1.
The difference in time going across the A66 compared to the A1 is 1 minute.
Not in a vehicle beloning to me you wouldn’t. Not without a damned good reason why at least. Unless of course you were paying for the fuel, brakes and other assorted consumables yourself that is.
Captain Caveman 76:
Driving back in a 16ft,empty curtainsider this morning, one of the scariest things I’ve ever done. Even taking it easy I thought I was gonna roll over. I seem to remember, many years ago when I drove motorways in a car, that empty lorries used to tie their curtains back if the trailers were empty. Can’t say I’ve seen it for a long time. Is it no longer permitted?
On a side note, not sure who it was, but the lorry in front of me who carried on past M62 J36 and over the Ouse Bridge, despite being informed not to, You’re a complete moron.
Couldn’t agree more, some ■■■ lost a caravan and caused traffic all the way back to Melton
the maoster:
lizard:
Newark to Edinburgh would be A1, A66, M6, M74, M8.
If the A66 is closed then I would go A1, A697, A68.
never go all the way up to Edinburgh on the A1.
The difference in time going across the A66 compared to the A1 is 1 minute.Not in a vehicle beloning to me you wouldn’t. Not without a damned good reason why at least. Unless of course you were paying for the fuel, brakes and other assorted consumables yourself that is.
Well apart from being about 4 miles longer, 1 minute less, less gear changes, less hills, more chance of flat out than sitting at a guzzling 40mph, less fatigue on the driver what other excuses would you like me to come up with.
You can’t possibly be serious? 4 miles? 1 minute? Less hills?
So are you two saying that if the a66 is closed to take the a1 all the way there?
I do like burning less fuel, less brakes and less driver fatigue thank you 
No, I’m saying that to travel from Newark to edinburgh I’d take the A1 ALL the way. I would however consider the A66 as an alternative if I knew in advance that there was a problem with the A1.
Tbh I’ve taken all the different routes quoted here in the past for no other reason than I could.
Thanks
lizard:
the maoster:
lizard:
Newark to Edinburgh would be A1, A66, M6, M74, M8.
If the A66 is closed then I would go A1, A697, A68.
never go all the way up to Edinburgh on the A1.
The difference in time going across the A66 compared to the A1 is 1 minute.Not in a vehicle beloning to me you wouldn’t. Not without a damned good reason why at least. Unless of course you were paying for the fuel, brakes and other assorted consumables yourself that is.
Well apart from being about 4 miles longer, 1 minute less, less gear changes, less hills, more chance of flat out than sitting at a guzzling 40mph, less fatigue on the driver what other excuses would you like me to come up with.
4 miles longer, 1 minute less, less hills?! 
Newark to Edinburgh via A1 is 271 miles.
Same route via A1 A66 M6 A74 A725 M8 is 301 miles.
A1 has no big hills like Brough and the A74M to get over and is 30 miles shorter.
dieseldog999:
a nice touch is to fill your sick bag with something out of the truckies lounge and sit eating it with a fork with the passengers watching.You eat your own sick with a fork? Can see why you went for the dog name. My dog used to do that, without the fork. Until I kicked him in the arse. Now he eats the cats sick. Filthy animal. That’s why he’s banned from the chairs. Plus he ■■■■■ too much, I can’t abide that being tainted onto my leather three piece.
Got as far as Newcastle and the win hasn’t been that bad…
James the cat:
dieseldog999:
a nice touch is to fill your sick bag with something out of the truckies lounge and sit eating it with a fork with the passengers watching.
[/quoteYou eat your own sick with a fork? Can see why you went for the dog name. My dog used to do that, without the fork. Until I kicked him in the arse. Now he eats the cats sick. Filthy animal. That’s why he’s banned from the chairs. Plus he ■■■■■ too much, I can’t abide that being tainted onto my leather three piece.
noooooooooo…ffs!!!..when its rough and they have left out the sick bags all over the place then the correct truckie practice is as follows…
find something nice and juicy in the truckies lounge for eating as a snack after the grub you shoved in earlier…fruit salad works a treat,or anything similar like a pudding or jelly etc…go out with the bag and a fork,sit somewhere handy in front of the general public,pretend to boak up into your sick bag bigtime ensuring to make enough noise and theatrical drama to ensure you now have a decent sized audience watching you…then borrow a fork from your mate,procceed to rummage around in your sick bag,stab a chunk of something,and start tucking into it.being scottish is an asset as i can complain about not wanting to waste expensive grub.by this time,someone from your audience will start to upchuck bigtime and run for the bogs,setting of a chain reaction from the rest of them assuming youve waitied till there wrecked with the seasickness effect of being in the middle of the irish sea on a bouncing boat…voila,free entertainment for the truckies on an otherwise boring crossing…job done.