Lorries banned from outside lane

[rov1200]

On roads such as the M11 dual carriageway from Stansted to Cambridge the outside lane is banned for HGVs for a trial period of 1 year. Is this an acceptance of the failure to ugrade our motorways? Is this not just common sense when lorries have a strict speed limit and the road has a number of inclines stretching for nearly 20 miles?

[TWR]

Are the children home from school? I see they has started to reply! I though this site was for adults, well we all get it wrong do we not.

[DrFilth]

twr , i think some of these are winding you up

[saxy_jag]

HGVs haven't been allowed to use the outside lane on motorways for years. But they're not the problem in any case. As a matter of fact, they're some of the most highly trained, committed drivers on the roads. The problem is people who really don't need to be on there in the first place. A better idea would be to restrict motorway travel during the week to commercial vehicles and public transport only.

Even better would be to stop building/widening more roads. People get more roads to drive on, they go and get more cars to drive on them, thus the roads become more congested, so we build still more roads, and on and on it goes. If we didn't build roads, people would get p'd off with never being able to get anywhere and would find alternative means of getting around - leaving the roads free for those who really do need to use them, viz, our truckers.

[boxtops]

My OH is a driver and (if he were not out on the road at the moment) I am sure he would agree with the last post - he says that other drivers have no idea how long it takes him to stop with a full load on board, if he has to brake suddenly. Also - to digress a bit from the original subject - we all need road transport whilst there is no viable alternatives on offer, and the facilities for drivers - truckstops, loos, etc. - are diabolical in the UK. They have to stop when their hours are up, to take their breaks, and in the UK places to do that are very limited - on the continent there are many proper and adequate facilities for the drivers to rest up. There is always a lot of moaning around here about the numbers of HGVs parked up on the sides of the roads of Kent, but there is one truck stop on the A20 which has a handful of parking bays for HGVs. Otherwise motorway service stations are their only legitimate stopping place.

[boxtops]

^ last post from TWR that is, not doc, more posts popped in while I was typing.

[DrFilth]

boxtops that is what happens if you do a lot of typing , lol

[boxtops]

Can't speak for the people I don't know, doc, I can only report what I'm told!

[DrFilth]

doc are you in wind up mode tonight, i find truckers are sound drivers , the problem on motorways is cars that stay in the middle lane.

[ttfn]

I suppose the problem is that no driver likes the driving of any other road user - we all know best, don't we. Oh, and the fact that our own time is so unbelievably important that we have to try and break the sound barrier on our journies irrespective of all other circumstances/conditions. If we had to go back to having men walking in front with the red flags this would not be a problem.

[ttfn]

Oh dear TWR - if your posting is indicative of your driving try some tolerance

[saxy_jag]

Everyone who thinks they know how to drive should spend a few days driving a forty-foot artic around and find out what it's really like to have some stupid oik glued so tight to your rear end that you can't even see him, or expecting you to be able to turn and stop the thing in the same space as a large car, even though it's four times as long and weighs around 30 tons+.

Then come back here and do your whinging about them.

[ttfn]

This is turning out to be a nice friendly thread - hope you have all sent each other Easter eggs