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From: Conor on 29 Dec 2009 10:28 In article <QuqdnRVfhshIh6TWnZ2dnUVZ7qKdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>, Ian says... > > "Conor" <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message > > A lorry and a bus have the height clearly marked in the cab. > > > For various values of "clearly". > No. It has to be clearly stated and in clear view of the driver. It is an offence to actually have a lorry/bus/coach without one displaying the correct height. If you look closely at the following picture, in line with the top of the drivers head is a black rectangel (tacho unit) and two small white squares in another box. That is the height indicator for that vehicle and that particular one consists of numbers on a drum which you rotate to indicate the correct height. http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/FSD/FSD339/lorry-driver- cab_~x29015574.jpg -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Ian on 29 Dec 2009 15:37 "Conor" <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message news:MPG.25a4307cc6bc1690989ae2(a)news.eternal-september.org... > In article <QuqdnRVfhshIh6TWnZ2dnUVZ7qKdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>, Ian > says... >> >> "Conor" <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message >> > A lorry and a bus have the height clearly marked in the cab. >> > >> For various values of "clearly". >> > No. It has to be clearly stated and in clear view of the driver. It > is > an offence to actually have a lorry/bus/coach without one displaying > the > correct height. > > If you look closely at the following picture, in line with the top > of > the drivers head is a black rectangel (tacho unit) and two small > white > squares in another box. That is the height indicator for that > vehicle > and that particular one consists of numbers on a drum which you > rotate > to indicate the correct height. > > http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/FSD/FSD339/lorry-driver- > cab_~x29015574.jpg > -- > Conor > www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk > > I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. Two absolutely identical coaches (Volvo B10s) - same series of registration - each carrying different height indications (by a factor of 6"). Both were on rail replacement between Basingstoke and Woking during the summer - and the difference was sufficient to cause the driver of one of them to seek a different route. There is no defined size, font, format.... it can often end up as something written in Tippex on a convenient bit of spare space in the cab. Some are in Imperial, others (more modern buses) are in metric. Sometimes both Imperial and metric are displayed.... with inaccurate conversion!!! Not my worry now, as I no longer drive buses (unless the gods smile and I get my licence back.....) -- Please visit our appeal at http://www.donatetobreastcancer.org/nakedbikeride Thanks Ian
From: Roland Perry on 29 Dec 2009 15:44 In message <T5ydnfzMBZNoWaTWnZ2dnUVZ8nKdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>, at 08:59:41 on Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Ian <idh(a)henden.co.uk> remarked: >Many people are perfectly able to navigate from one end of the country >to another without either map or SatNav. > >But when you need to find a particular address in an unfamiliar place, >then SatNav wins hands-down. Yesterday I managed to get to Central Sheffield without a map, and even to Sheffield Station without a map (I've never driven to either, before) but I don't think I'd have found my destination, which was 100yds from the station as the crow flies, but over a mile by roads-open-to-private-cars, without the Satnav. (Normally I would have gone by train, but as there were five of us, and Bank Holiday trains are extra-notorious, I thought I'd drive). -- Roland Perry
From: Roland Perry on 29 Dec 2009 15:47 In message <TYidnaiCM5xNVaTWnZ2dnUVZ8hqdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>, at 09:16:07 on Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Ian <idh(a)henden.co.uk> remarked: >>>I've been fooled in Cambridge many times. Always take the wrong >>>turn. But now I just dump the car in the multi-story and walk. >> >> That's a good plan if walking the last part is OK - but not an >> option for many deliveries. Although if able to walk through a city >> centre the last half mile, I'll probably have arrived by train, >> anyway. > >Which would have given you a very long walk in Cambridge to get to the >centre...... of course, if you KNEW it was a long way, youd have taken >the bus... I have walked from Cambridge Station to the centre many times. In fact I have never caught a bus. But I know what to expect. See also my trip to Sheffield yesterday (normally I'd take the train and walk - but yesterday I was looking for a particular car park for which I had a voucher). -- Roland Perry
From: Ophelia on 29 Dec 2009 16:00
"Roland Perry" <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote in message news:BuwwSZJTomOLFA1p(a)perry.co.uk... > In message <T5ydnfzMBZNoWaTWnZ2dnUVZ8nKdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>, at 08:59:41 > on Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Ian <idh(a)henden.co.uk> remarked: >>Many people are perfectly able to navigate from one end of the country >>to another without either map or SatNav. >> >>But when you need to find a particular address in an unfamiliar place, >>then SatNav wins hands-down. > > Yesterday I managed to get to Central Sheffield without a map, and even to > Sheffield Station without a map (I've never driven to either, before) but > I don't think I'd have found my destination, which was 100yds from the > station as the crow flies, but over a mile by roads-open-to-private-cars, > without the Satnav. > > (Normally I would have gone by train, but as there were five of us, and > Bank Holiday trains are extra-notorious, I thought I'd drive). I use mine a lot atm. My husband is doing a lot of IT contract work. I am moving to many places I have never been before and I couldn't manage without mine. It is hard to know which way to go, when you don't recognise any of the place names. -- https://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ |