UK Speed Limits

aj2052 · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:53 am Post subject:

On second thoughts 4 out of 5

mrgrimsby · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 147

I am anti caravan!!! I hate the damn things...especially living on the Isle Of Wight, they are like the plague , every summer the roads are clogged up with People driving Volvo's towing these hideous tin boxes around country lanes at 10 or 20 miles per hour...AGHHHH.
What would possess someone to live in one of these little tin boxes is beyond me...you cant even sit down for a cr*p for gawds sake. The bed is a table with a mattress on it and the bedroom/lounge/kitchen would fit under my stairs. They are cold when its cold and like ovens when it is warm.
Caravans are for anoraks who will not pay for the niceities in life and who think they can drive HGV's when clearly they cannot.

Darren · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

This is a serious discussion, if you wish to rant about such matters please do it in the Off Topic forum or in your local bar.
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mrgrimsby · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 147

I am serious but I am sorry if I have caused offence and I am sorry I drifted off topic.
I am T Total by the way.

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject:

I suspect, that if a straw poll was taken in the High Street, many people would not realise, or know that there are speed limits in place for vehicles other than cars, and that this probably adds to the overall problems of 'hold ups.'
eg Heavy trucks are limited to 40 mph and every thing else, other than cars, 50 mph on a regular main road with a posted 60 mph limit.
Likewise on dual carriageways, only cars can do 70, all else 60, apart from heavy trucks again, which are limited to 50
The same 'ratio' though doesn't apply to Motorways...all cars, buses/coaches, and goods vehicles can happily do 70, but all of a sudden heavy trucks, and caravans are down to 60.
(The above is if my memory serves me right!)

tenorplayer · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 20, 2006 Posts: 69

Been a firefighter for thirty years( now retired) to hear the expression about a towed caravan seeing off the boy racers at the lights saddens me. I spent all my service hurtling around with a thirteen ton truck with tyres groaning ... but for emergencies only ! ... In my own time I drive sedately because I have seen too often the results of "macho " men trying to prove their superiority(in their minds only) on the road and the thought of what a badly driven car and caravan(and that includes badly loaded) can do frightens me to death. I`ve seen it too often.
My old (late) Granma used to say " better 5 minutes late in this life than fifty years too early in the next ! "..... not wrong.

Darren · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject:

I've moved the thread to the Off-Topic area. Mikeact's initial question was a fair one but I feel the balance of the thread has moved away from the initial intention!
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aj2052 · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject:

wiz · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

Skippy · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject:

Tim Buxton · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

Mikeact · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject:

Sorry...PTW's ?

Skippy · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

Yes I do realise its a fire engine, and also realise that a 13 Ton truck with tyres groaning is a dam sight more dangerous than a caravan, It also reminds me vivadly of the gentlemen patiently waiting to turn right at traffic lights i think in birmingham who was killed by a fire engine that could not stop. I also accept that there is also badly matched and inexperienced caravaners, but then I do take a balanced view and see both sides.

Darren · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

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