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OpulentBob said:
I wouldn't trust them to direct me to the tills at Tesco.
Can't you find the tills? You must be lost then!Hang in there!
Alpha six one we have a code Red at Tesco.....time to saddle up. Let's get out there and save some lives!
Thankfully we now have the same powers as the Police and the SAS.
I had a minor break down last week and was blocking a lane on the approach to a busy roundabout.
I watched what, to the untrained eye, appeared to be a Police Land Rover, but thanks to this thread, I knew was a Frontera with some hi-vis wearing man in the front seat and lights on the roof.
He drove straight past me and didn't even offer to stop traffic or anything!
I was, thankfully, kindly rescued mere seconds later by a friendly many in a Mercedes estate car, who had all the tools in the boot of his car and a decent tow rope, to get me a few hundred yards along the road to a lay by off the beaten track.
Not all heroes wear hi-vis! (this guy had sandals and a Pakistan cricket team supporters top on)
I watched what, to the untrained eye, appeared to be a Police Land Rover, but thanks to this thread, I knew was a Frontera with some hi-vis wearing man in the front seat and lights on the roof.
He drove straight past me and didn't even offer to stop traffic or anything!
I was, thankfully, kindly rescued mere seconds later by a friendly many in a Mercedes estate car, who had all the tools in the boot of his car and a decent tow rope, to get me a few hundred yards along the road to a lay by off the beaten track.
Not all heroes wear hi-vis! (this guy had sandals and a Pakistan cricket team supporters top on)
Shakermaker said:
I had a minor break down last week and was blocking a lane on the approach to a busy roundabout.
I watched what, to the untrained eye, appeared to be a Police Land Rover, but thanks to this thread, I knew was a Frontera with some hi-vis wearing man in the front seat and lights on the roof.
He drove straight past me and didn't even offer to stop traffic or anything!
I was, thankfully, kindly rescued mere seconds later by a friendly many in a Mercedes estate car, who had all the tools in the boot of his car and a decent tow rope, to get me a few hundred yards along the road to a lay by off the beaten track.
Not all heroes wear hi-vis! (this guy had sandals and a Pakistan cricket team supporters top on)
Mechanical or mental?I watched what, to the untrained eye, appeared to be a Police Land Rover, but thanks to this thread, I knew was a Frontera with some hi-vis wearing man in the front seat and lights on the roof.
He drove straight past me and didn't even offer to stop traffic or anything!
I was, thankfully, kindly rescued mere seconds later by a friendly many in a Mercedes estate car, who had all the tools in the boot of his car and a decent tow rope, to get me a few hundred yards along the road to a lay by off the beaten track.
Not all heroes wear hi-vis! (this guy had sandals and a Pakistan cricket team supporters top on)
i'm working for a heavy products painting firm, and have covered for escort duties for extra large loads. it requires a orange hiz viz and turning the amber flashing lights on as to stop cars going up the inside. im sure a police unit nodded at me for mutual respect or might have been the sun.
i have just bought a soft 4x4 with a cb and started looking at light bars, am i becoming a walt?
i have just bought a soft 4x4 with a cb and started looking at light bars, am i becoming a walt?
The Spruce goose said:
i'm working for a heavy products painting firm, and have covered for escort duties for extra large loads. it requires a orange hiz viz and turning the amber flashing lights on as to stop cars going up the inside. im sure a police unit nodded at me for mutual respect or might have been the sun.
i have just bought a soft 4x4 with a cb and started looking at light bars, am i becoming a walt?
have covered for escort duties for extra large loads.i have just bought a soft 4x4 with a cb and started looking at light bars, am i becoming a walt?
you dirty devil
The Spruce goose said:
i'm working for a heavy products painting firm, and have covered for escort duties for extra large loads. it requires a orange hiz viz and turning the amber flashing lights on as to stop cars going up the inside. im sure a police unit nodded at me for mutual respect or might have been the sun.
Did you enjoy it or was it just work? Did it make you feel important? Spice_Weasel said:
The Spruce goose said:
i'm working for a heavy products painting firm, and have covered for escort duties for extra large loads. it requires a orange hiz viz and turning the amber flashing lights on as to stop cars going up the inside. im sure a police unit nodded at me for mutual respect or might have been the sun.
Did you enjoy it or was it just work? Did it make you feel important? 
Don1 said:
Spice_Weasel said:
The Spruce goose said:
i'm working for a heavy products painting firm, and have covered for escort duties for extra large loads. it requires a orange hiz viz and turning the amber flashing lights on as to stop cars going up the inside. im sure a police unit nodded at me for mutual respect or might have been the sun.
Did you enjoy it or was it just work? Did it make you feel important? Mound Dawg said:
And do you sleep with one eye open waiting for the mobile phone to ring?
i did have a policevan cut in front of me whilst i had full ambers, luckily i was in a good mood or i might have had to issue a warning(in my head)unfortunately the job was temporary so no more longer the master of the ambers.
I thought of this thread the other day when I saw a van coming the other way, it had flashing white and red lights inside the windscreen (mounted on the dash) and I was thinking to myself 'what sort of emergency vehicle would use white and red front facing lights?'. As it got closer I saw the word 'DOCTOR' on the bonnet ('so why isn't it running green lights?') and then realised that due to the curve of the bonnet (purely coincidental I am sure....) it actually said 'Fuel DOCTOR'.
These people I assume - http://www.fueldoctoruk.co.uk/
Hopefully just minor walting by the franchisee rather than company policy.
These people I assume - http://www.fueldoctoruk.co.uk/
Hopefully just minor walting by the franchisee rather than company policy.
yellowjack said:
moleamol said:
A CB is pretty useful when you're on the side of a mountain green laningdestroying rights of way, making them all but impassable for other users and making a phone call isn't really practical. So, no.
I live in the Lake District, and we regularly get visitors and tourists complaining about the fact that green laning is allowed. I'm fairly certain these people would much prefer it if the Lakes were like a library. No talking, no smoking, no eating, no making any noise. They think the whole place should be a museum that only walkers can enjoy.
The countryside should be for everyone to enjoy, and I would absolutely defend the rights of people in 4x4's and on bikes to use the legal rights of way.
Rant over
Lord Marylebone said:
yellowjack said:
moleamol said:
A CB is pretty useful when you're on the side of a mountain green laningdestroying rights of way, making them all but impassable for other users and making a phone call isn't really practical. So, no.
I live in the Lake District, and we regularly get visitors and tourists complaining about the fact that green laning is allowed. I'm fairly certain these people would much prefer it if the Lakes were like a library. No talking, no smoking, no eating, no making any noise. They think the whole place should be a museum that only walkers can enjoy.
The countryside should be for everyone to enjoy, and I would absolutely defend the rights of people in 4x4's and on bikes to use the legal rights of way.
Rant over
Plus that fact that the vast majority of 4x4 users a) stick to a voluntary code of practice such as no more than 4 vehicles in a convoy and not driving lanes where the surface looks wet or soft enough to get damaged,
and b) actively maintain the lanes by organising working parties to cut back foliage and repair ruts and bad drainage.
By contrast, Google for some images of foot erosion due to the thousands of bobble-hats doggedly hiking their routes in all conditions.
Of all the unsurfaced rights of way in Britain, motor vehicles have access to only 6%. The rest are only legally accessible to walkers and other pedestrian traffic. Yet still these goretex clad communists (seriously, the ramblers association is an offshoot of the communist party, designed to protest about private land ownership by traipsing over other people's property) wont rest until they have the entire lot to themselves
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