Re: Burnley Tunnel-vision

On Mar 6, 11:59=A0pm, "George W Frost" <fro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
> When you are driving a truck for a living and you have got a bit of
speed =
up, around
> 80 kph or so, you see a hill ahead of you and you plant the foot to get
yo=
u up and
> over the hill, when there is another vehicle ahead of you going slower,
yo=
u look to
> see if there is room to pass, if so, then you do and get over the hill
ins=
tead of
> being held up behind the slower vehicle, which could hold you back five
mi=
nutes in
> your travel times, then for each other slow vehicle, add another five
minu=
tes and
> there you have , over a time travel of two hours, you are held back
maybe =
twenty
> mnutes or half an hour, so you go out and pass the slower vehicle
because =
time is
> money and you don't get paid by time, you get paid for the trip.
> The average car driver is usually on the way home as to the times you
are =
talking
> about, so they have made their money for the day while the truck driver
is=
 still
> working

this is not what i see in the tunnel.

no one is seriously complaining about trucks that hold their speed.
i'm talking about the ones that are coming along at 80 km/h in the RH
lane, and just can't hold that speed up the hill, presumably due to
being loaded up. they down****ft until they're doing 30 km/h and hold
everyone up.

what you've described is a completely different scenario, and one in
which no one gets held up.

the reality is, some truckies just don't give a **** about other road
users. call them cowboys if you like but they're out there.