Saratoga:
Seems that down Cornwall way the council have banned motorhomes and caravans from stopping overnight in their carparks. Previously they were marked up as ‘no sleeping overnight’ in their carparks but people would and could argue that they had parked there and gone elsewhere… Yeah right.
Also they are including those small carparks by the coast that MH’ers like to park in, sometimes for several days…
How can they possibly stop a motorhome from parking up? It’s a taxed vehicle, caravans sure because they’re not.
That’s always been the 1 advantage of a motorhome over a tourer, is that they can literally park anywhere legal and spend the night, where as a tourer doing the same thing is a gypsy lol.
I have a tourer and love it, although don’t get out with it as often as I’d like.
bald bloke:
Big Truck:
holliefabbabe:
heres a good one , 63% of caravaner’s are or were ex lorry drivers
Quite right,
although I STILL drive a truck 
I will only say this,
for a family with two young boys and the fact that five of my mates and their families have touring vans too its the BEST money I’ve EVER spent 
Can’t beat it at min one long weekend/month Apr to Sept and a week in August up@ Juniper Hill Portrush
(NW200 Bike road race circuit) along the North Coast of NI, get “the van” set up, beers in the fridge and the barbeque cooking away not to mention the kids all “happy as Larry”
Can’t beat it with a big stick, GREAT CRAIC 
Better than living in a “tin box” working 70hours+ week!!! 
Here here ^^^^, i’m also a wobbly box tower by the way.
+2 Here too.
Just come back from a long weekend away, overtook several artics - was flashed in - I thanked them with my indicators.
Gave respect - recieved respect.
I’ve seen me 1st caravan of spring on it’s side !
gunnerheskey:
‘…I’ve seen me 1st caravan of spring on it’s side…!’
That’ll be to enable a better check, one at a time, of that year’s squared-off, bakelite, under-pressurised tyre condition.
Maybe ‘Old Man Monthly’ and ‘Knitting Woman’ magazines recommend alternating caravan roll directions every couple of years, or so, hence taking the ‘tea-cup-trellising-and-bog-on-wheels’ (embarrassed grandchildren optional) for the odd jolly abroad to roll it on their back to front larks
i service my wobble box every spring , strip and check brakes , check tyres , steel banded commercial tyres , good grease and oil round and have the gas and electrics professionally serviced . never have any trouble with it . on the other hand most people go to the storage unit or wherever they keep it , throw the gear in , hook up and away they go . i was filling up at morrisons at fort william two years ago , behind a very caravan club type , correctly attired , van polished to a mirror finish . he came out of the shop , set off on hard right lock and demolished the pump island with the backswing . his wife was more worried about the damage to the caravan than the fuel spilt everywhere .
Just watched one reverse out of a space in the HGV area in Watford Gap, funny as F…k, he jackknifed it within 5 yards, he only had to reverse straight for 10 yards.
koikeeper:
commonrail:
Strensham s/b today… 
Absolute [zb] morons.am I really sharing the road with these idiots?
probably saying the same thing about you.
dont see why...afterall i didnt park smack bang in the middle of the parking area
Saw one demolished on M25 near potters bar earlier. Foriegn lorry in left lane, caravan in middle (what was left) and uk lorry in outside lane. Old couple looked like they were checking damage.
Helped me make up my mind which way to head home anyway.
Complain complain complain…are there any decent drivers on the road? You lot constantly complain about others (cars cyclists and now caravans)
What about all the very poor standards from truck drivers we see everyday?
According to some on here they can do no wrong but in reality they are as bad if not worse than anyone else.
Down here in devon they have the motorway matrix boards saying ‘take extra care when towing’ the empty space underneath could easily say ‘and no more than 60Mph’ but it doesn’t, it’s just empty space!
albion1971:
‘…Complain, complain, complain … are there any decent drivers on the road? You lot constantly complain about others (cars cyclists and now caravans)…’
Tut: Diversity, eh? After being told how great it was, who amongst us wanted it to begin with 
Was the nation ready for it on the scale that is now apparent?
Isn’t such evident dislike of other ‘groups’ a deliberate social construct of Blair and his successors to covertly permit a rotten political system to continually enforce its own ‘diversity is great’ agenda upon the UK? After all, they ignore us when we say,‘hang-on - we don’t particularly like, want or need this’ 
Meanwhile:
mucker85:
‘… they have the motorway matrix boards saying ‘take extra care when towing’ the empty space underneath could easily say ‘and no more than 60Mph’ but it doesn’t, it’s just empty space…!’
Is that an observation because the:
1 UK Society isn’t being nannied enough?
2 Average guppy doesn’t know what’s in the Highway Code?
3 Plod aren’t there any more to penalise wrong-doers?
4 Others are getting away with stuff and we’re jealous?
truckertang:
Terry T:
Do ya like dags ?
And I want a pair of dem shoes!!!
Cuppa tea for de big fella?
Happy Keith:
Meanwhile:
mucker85:
‘… they have the motorway matrix boards saying ‘take extra care when towing’ the empty space underneath could easily say ‘and no more than 60Mph’ but it doesn’t, it’s just empty space…!’
Is that an observation because the:
1 UK Society isn’t being nannied enough?
2 Average guppy doesn’t know what’s in the Highway Code?
3 Plod aren’t there any more to penalise wrong-doers?
4 Others are getting away with stuff and we’re jealous?
1, Some of them need their arse wiping if their reversing skills are anything to go by.
2, Probably the correct answer
3, Also correct. The few remaining coppers left are buried in paperwork or forced to protect itinerant tarmac layers from ‘Persecution from law abiding, tax paying citizens’
4, Na, i’m not jealous. Anyone who wants to spend a week in a plastic box surrounded by other plastic boxes is welcome to it. I’d much rather enjoy what I did last week, sat in the sun, drinking beer on top of a mountain in the French Alps.