Farthing says...
No, because I want to maintain what modicum of control that is left over the space I have and the braking.
Any Surrey traffic cops lurking 1090Conor 4 or 5 minutes. Perhaps that's a little tardy, but OK for those circumstances where the truck would have problems regaining speed - i.e. steep upgrades. On the...
VEry nice in a car weighing a tonne and with 100BHP and unlimited daily driving time, a little less nice in a lorry weighing 44 tonnes with 420BHP - a tenth of the power to weight ratio and a daily driving time limited to 9 hours. Everytime one of you f***wits slows me down, it takes an age to get the speed back up. And unlike you f***wits, the amount of time I can drive a day is limited by law.
And I guess you advocate doing 30MPH on the motorway then? Because that'll be the result.
You should go out in a lorry one day. Might open your eyes.
Still, I'm sure all those hours spent driving around housing estates and test routes gives you an excellent experience of what its like driving an artic on the motorway.
Perhaps it is time to price cars off the motorway.
-- Conor
The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. - Pink Floyd
