Sainsbury's Lorries Today - Sloooooooow

[uuf361]

I've had the displeasure of coming to work in Luton today which involves M25 and M1, and on the journey up on 3 ocassions (each 15-20 miles apart so not a convoy) traffic all started slowing down for no apparent reason and brake lights in most lanes with lorries elephant racing in 3 of the 4 lanes etc.

And each time the culprit was a Sainbury's lorry (not the articulated kind but the long ish ones attached to a cab) all doing between 45 and 50mph - I'm guessing they'd be restricted to 62mph anyway (?) but these were driving painfully slowly in comparison to the rest of the traffic and causing jams, but equally surprising all other lorries (including other supermarkets) were driving at more normal speeds.

Is today 'save Sainsbury's some fuel by driving slowly day', a new strategy by them to cut costs or completely coincidental ?

[uuf361]

GC8 said:

Why do you think this?

It was a guess as I said.........I know some vehicles are restricted to 62 and others I think I've seen stickers on etc......

[uuf361]

Seemingly not a new thing then as that article was from September 2009 but obv the first time I've nticed.

Seemed awfully slow today and not helping with traffic flow.....

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k-ink said:

What selfish morons. I will not be using Sainsburys!

I haven't used them for years - they installed speed bumps the car couldn't get over (when I only had one), won't be hurrying back either.........