From: Harry Bloomfield on
Conor wrote :
> Well I did 3 years as a night driver for Hygena, doing over 2000 miles a
> week, 1 year as a night driver for Parceline, a year for Howdens
> Kitchens, again 2000+ per week and for various other firms over the past
> 15 years.
>
> And as YOU have pointed out that most of us don't use high beam, then
> due to the fact we're not all falling off the road, it can't be that
> much of an issue.
>
> Oh, and I come from East Yorkshire which has proper dark unlit roads
> unlike the street lit nonsense that

The point under discussion is not HGV's falling off the road because
they can't see at the 40 to 50mph that they do, but their making it
difficult for the following vehicles to see ahead in order to safely
over take them to do the higher speeds they can do.

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From: dan on
Halmyre <no.spam(a)this.address> writes:

> In article <hejhcc$m5r$1(a)aioe.org>, boltar2003(a)yahoo.co.uk says...
>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:20 +0000
>> Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote:
>> >As someone who very much enjoys driving and riding around corners, I'm
>> >very glad that many of our roads are like this.
>>
>> Yeah , why get somewhere quickly with minimum fuss when you can waste fuel
>> and brake pads riding a circuitous route dictated by the whims of a feudal
>> lord c1450.
>>
>
> I didn't realise the feudal lords were responsible for the non-linear nature
> of the British landscape.

I don't think the feudal lords were responsible for much of anything at
all by 1450: the Hundred Years War (archers) and the Black Death
(reduction in available peasants) had pretty much put an end to
feudalism between them by then.

But maybe Boltar has some particular road and some particular
tenant-in-chief in mind


-dan
From: crn on
In uk.rec.motorcycles Halmyre <no.spam(a)this.address> wrote:
> In article <hejhcc$m5r$1(a)aioe.org>, boltar2003(a)yahoo.co.uk says...
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:20 +0000
> > Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote:
> > >As someone who very much enjoys driving and riding around corners, I'm
> > >very glad that many of our roads are like this.
> >
> > Yeah , why get somewhere quickly with minimum fuss when you can waste fuel
> > and brake pads riding a circuitous route dictated by the whims of a feudal
> > lord c1450.
> >
>
> I didn't realise the feudal lords were responsible for the non-linear nature
> of the British landscape.

They were not.
The roads started out as footways which followed field boundaries. Some
of these became cart tracks which were then widened and surfaced as
roads within the last 150 years. The field boundaries are usually of
prehistoric origin.
If you find a decent stretch of straight road it is either roman or
modern.

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From: Lozzo on
Jimac wrote:

> Harry Bloomfield wrote in uk.rec.motorcycles:
>
> > Conor explained on 23/11/2009 :
> > > If the HGV test is so easy, how come so many car drivers fail it?
> >
> > Not very many car drivers will actually take it, most will already
> > be gainfully employed.
>
> I'm stunned that people actually learn to drive in an HGV before they
> ever drive a car. Shouldn't be allowed!

I'm led to believe it isn't allowed any more.

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From: Ed Chilada on
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:05:17 +0000, Silk <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:

>On 22/11/2009 17:17, Catman wrote:
>> Silk wrote:
>>> On 22/11/2009 14:07, R C Nesbit wrote:
>>>
>>>> So why didn't you?
>>>
>>> Bikers and lorry drivers are two sides of the same coin. Both pig
>>> ignorant and think they're better than everyone else, in spite of
>>> having a death wish.
>>
>> So are you a biker, or a lorry driver?
>
>I drive a car, like most normal people. I just happen to be rather good
>at it.

Most people judge their driving by their own standards and of course,
they usually score well.