Tractors and Caravans

[qbman1]

Ruined your life QBob ?! I'll put you on the compo list !

We have plenty of other options that don't involve cruising.

Now where's our caravan? (Neatly back on topic there. )

Was that the one with the sign on the door - "if the caravan's a rockin', don't come a knockin'" ?!

[Silver_Shiney]

Ruined your life QBob ?! I'll put you on the compo list !

We have plenty of other options that don't involve cruising.

Now where's our caravan? (Neatly back on topic there. )

Was that the one with the sign on the door - "if the caravan's a rockin', don't come a knockin'" ?!

No, it's the one with the old nag between the shafts

[qbman1]

That's no way to talk about Mrs Bob

[Quizzical Bob]

Ruined your life QBob ?! I'll put you on the compo list !

We have plenty of other options that don't involve cruising.

Now where's our caravan? (Neatly back on topic there. )

Was that the one with the sign on the door - "if the caravan's a rockin', don't come a knockin'" ?!

Our caravan is rock steady

[qbman1]

Lost count of the number of tax-exempt agricultural vehicles clogging up the roads this morning ! I had an interesting exchange of hand signals with two of them !!

Do you think I should start a petition on the government site to advocate a ban from public roads at peak times ?!

[Silver_Shiney]

Were they telling you to come back in two weeks, or one?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Just claim compo from the NFU.

On the bright side you've finally beaten the bunnies.

Oh, hang on.................

[qbman1]

Were they telling you to come back in two weeks, or one?

Both - and one of them seemed to be holding an imaginary banana ?!

[qbman1]

Just claim compo from the NFU.

On the bright side you've finally beaten the bunnies.

Oh, hang on.................

More tractor shenanigans this morning - I am definitely turning into Victor Meldrew

....and the bunnies are still getting into places that even Debbie McGee couldn't escape from !!

[Raybosailor]

I have no problem with tractors as others have said they are feeding the nation.

I have no problem with caravans in general either unless they are travelling in convoy and being towed by pick up trucks looking for a bit of land to illegally camp on.

But what really annoys me is those mini sweeper trucks that spend the early hours tearing up and down the pavements and shopping precincts clearing up the rubbish thrown by litter louts.
There's nothing wrong with that you may say but after spending the whole morning on the pavement they then take to the road to get back to the depot at an average speed of 20 mph. and this on roads with a 40/50 mph speed limit.
The council spend thousands building cycle storage lockers why can't they spend a few bob on a shed near the shops to keep their four wheel Henry off the busy roads ?

[qbman1]

I don't have a "problem" with tractors per se but my point was that it would be sensible if they were prevented from clogging up the roads at peak times and often creating a danger to other road users. Farmers are always telling us what long hours they work so can someone explain why they have to take to the roads at the same times us mere mortals are travelling to and from work ?!

[qbman1]

Caravans ! Now that's another matter altogether......!!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Try this then, sums it up beautifully

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dr ... &FORM=VIRE

[Silver_Shiney]

Try this then, sums it up beautifully

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dr ... &FORM=VIRE

grrrrr - that's one of my pet hates, is drivers hogging the middle (or even the outer) lane when there's nothing to overtake. Use the 2-second rule when following someone, and the 10-second rule for overtaking (if it'll take more than 10 seconds to reach the next vehicle in the inside lane, pull in)

[Mervyn and Trish]

I agree with the first wholeheartedly and the second with reservations. If it's an open road yes. If the traffic is heavy the chances are if you pull in after ten seconds and reach the next vehicle to overtake in 15 you'll never get back out again! So I'd say discretion on the time on that one, but the principle is sound.

[Stephen]

And then there's the chav in the Merc brigade that come flying right up your ar*e from nowhere doing what seems like 200mph just as your in the process of overtaking. This happened to me recently on the way back from the West Midlands.

[Silver_Shiney]

I agree with the first wholeheartedly and the second with reservations. If it's an open road yes. If the traffic is heavy the chances are if you pull in after ten seconds and reach the next vehicle to overtake in 15 you'll never get back out again! So I'd say discretion on the time on that one, but the principle is sound.

It's very difficult to judge a 10-second gap.

And then there's the chav in the Merc brigade that come flying right up your ar*e from nowhere doing what seems like 200mph just as your in the process of overtaking. This happened to me recently on the way back from the West Midlands.

pratmobiles have brakes, don't they?

[Stephen]

Who you calling a prat

[Silver_Shiney]

Who you calling a prat

The vast majority of BMW, Audi and Merc drivers - especially BMWs, like the one who shot past me on Saturday and went a roundabout almost sideways because he was going too fast

[oldbluefox]

That wasn't you parked up on the roundabout having a picnic. was it Shiney? You didn't leave me much room.

[The Tinker]

I don't have a "problem" with tractors per se but my point was that it would be sensible if they were prevented from clogging up the roads at peak times and often creating a danger to other road users. Farmers are always telling us what long hours they work so can someone explain why they have to take to the roads at the same times us mere mortals are travelling to and from work ?!

Cubie - they are going to work as well - like the bloody cyclists who drive me mad - and willnot pull over!

[Silver_Shiney]

That wasn't you parked up on the roundabout having a picnic. was it Shiney? You didn't leave me much room.

Picnic? In that weather?

[Silver_Shiney]

I don't have a "problem" with tractors per se but my point was that it would be sensible if they were prevented from clogging up the roads at peak times and often creating a danger to other road users. Farmers are always telling us what long hours they work so can someone explain why they have to take to the roads at the same times us mere mortals are travelling to and from work ?!

Cubie - they are going to work as well - like the bl**dy cyclists who drive me mad - and willnot pull over!

At least they're on the road and not on the FOOTpaths.

[qbman1]

I don't have a "problem" with tractors per se but my point was that it would be sensible if they were prevented from clogging up the roads at peak times and often creating a danger to other road users. Farmers are always telling us what long hours they work so can someone explain why they have to take to the roads at the same times us mere mortals are travelling to and from work ?!

Cubie - they are going to work as well - like the bl**dy cyclists who drive me mad - and will not pull over!

Yes, agreed, but my original point was, if they want to use the roads at peak times then they should pay vehicle duty like the rest of us.

And don't talk to me about cyclists - I work in Oxford, remember !!

[Stephen]

The moron that wanted to get into my back seat was weaving in and out of traffic lanes like an absolute lunatic once he got past me. I really do wonder how they think they have the right to drive in that manner. Sh*t for brains springs to mind. The annoying bit is its people like him that never get caught.