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Red9zero said:
BossHogg said:
Red9zero said:
So do you need an actual blue light card or do you just turn up in your 4x4 with beacons flashing away, clad in your hi viz with your Mum's shopping list ?
You need to prove your credentials and buy membership. It's 5 for 5 years. (All identifying details removed. 
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Edited by BossHogg on Monday 23 May 17:06
Edited by Red9zero on Monday 23 May 17:45
I stumbled across a program tonight on Ch5 called ‘Motorway Patrol’ or something similar. Turns out that it was a series following Highways agency staff up and down the country in ‘emergency’ situations. My first thought was that they make a fly on the wall documentary about anything these days. My second was that these guys really are the king of the Walt’s, talk about an over inflated sense of importance. They were getting particularly miffed when traffic refused to pull over when they illuminated their amber lights.
The major incident of the program was them putting on a rolling road block to remove a cushion from the hard shoulder. The only slightly interesting part was when a young driver, who’d crashed his car into a central barrier, admitted he had no insurance. At that point they couldn’t deal and had to call the police!
The major incident of the program was them putting on a rolling road block to remove a cushion from the hard shoulder. The only slightly interesting part was when a young driver, who’d crashed his car into a central barrier, admitted he had no insurance. At that point they couldn’t deal and had to call the police!
To he honest, you can't do much can you? Except illuminate your Amber roof rack. No towing or winching, no carrying fuel in cans, all you can do is what Clarkson aptly named you, Traffic Wombles. Tidy up discarded trainers, bits of exhaust and deploy cones around broken down cars on the hard shoulder. And stand about with your hands tucked into your hi viz. Well, that's what the ones around here do. Oh, and drive at 47mph creating a moving roadblock as Doris and Harry in their Yaris think you're the police and crawl past at 48mph 'just in case'.
Edited by Tyre Smoke on Tuesday 24th May 06:11
BossHogg said:
We couldn't deal as we have no enforcement powers, we are basically traffic management, and we deal with that as best as we can without involving the police for the majority of the time.
Add high viz and flashing lights on a 4x4 and that's pretty much the definition of Walt isn't it?OnTheBreadline said:
Tyre Smoke said:
To he honest, you can't do much can you? Except illuminate your Amber roof rack. No towing or winching, no carrying fuel in cans, all you can do is what Clarkson aptly named you, Traffic Wombles. Tidy up discarded trainers, bits of exhaust and deploy cones around broken down cars on the hard shoulder. And stand about with your hands tucked into your hi viz. Well, that's what the ones around here do. Oh, and drive at 47mph creating a moving roadblock as Doris and Harry in their Yaris think you're the police and crawl past at 48mph 'just in case'.
Maybe I've read the tone of your post wrong, but in case I haven't - that's incredibly rude. Edited by Tyre Smoke on Tuesday 24th May 06:11
What do you do for a living? Let us pick the worst elements of it and tell you why you are so pointless?
And I'm sure the Hogg is big enough to fight his own corner.
Hell yeah, and my bite is worse than my bark. We can carriageway clear and we do on a regular basis, we don't tow off the motorway, unless there are extenuating circumstances - we're not recovery. We carry skids to enable us to drag cars/vans with locked wheels, we carry booster packs to clear vehicles that have become immobile through flat batteries, we carry defibrillators - we are trained in first aid and they have been used on a number of occasions, plus a whole lot more that I mentioned on an old topic. A lot of our good work goes unnoticed as we don't make a song and dance about it, but heyho, I retire (hopefully) in 5 years and it will no longer be my problem.
We can carriageway clear and we do on a regular basis, we don't tow off the motorway, unless there are extenuating circumstances - we're not recovery. We carry skids to enable us to drag cars/vans with locked wheels, we carry booster packs to clear vehicles that have become immobile through flat batteries, we carry defibrillators - we are trained in first aid and they have been used on a number of occasions, plus a whole lot more that I mentioned on an old topic. A lot of our good work goes unnoticed as we don't make a song and dance about it, but heyho, I retire (hopefully) in 5 years and it will no longer be my problem. 
it's Yorkshire tea or nowt son - and large quantities of it! 
Tyre Smoke said:
OnTheBreadline said:
Tyre Smoke said:
To he honest, you can't do much can you? Except illuminate your Amber roof rack. No towing or winching, no carrying fuel in cans, all you can do is what Clarkson aptly named you, Traffic Wombles. Tidy up discarded trainers, bits of exhaust and deploy cones around broken down cars on the hard shoulder. And stand about with your hands tucked into your hi viz. Well, that's what the ones around here do. Oh, and drive at 47mph creating a moving roadblock as Doris and Harry in their Yaris think you're the police and crawl past at 48mph 'just in case'.
Maybe I've read the tone of your post wrong, but in case I haven't - that's incredibly rude. Edited by Tyre Smoke on Tuesday 24th May 06:11
What do you do for a living? Let us pick the worst elements of it and tell you why you are so pointless?
And I'm sure the Hogg is big enough to fight his own corner.
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