One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

[iSore]

MorganP104 said:

Saw a modified BMW 3-Series with its numberplate in the windscreen over the weekend.

Clocked the driver (young man wearing a baseball cap).

Clocked his passenger (disinterested looking young woman tapping away at her phone).

Totally standard.

A red E90 perchance?

[TommoAE86]

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

The throbber(s) who thought it would be a great idea on the first Saturday of the school holidays to send two of those ginormous dumper trucks on the back of wide load lorries down the southbound M3 at circa 15 mph.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish tts.

The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?

I would hope they had permission from the police, what difference does that make ? It was still a stty decision.
And how do you know where they were going was so important to cause miles and miles of tailbacks and let's face it, just because it's a Saturday morning doesn't mean that there weren't hundreds of other drivers also trying to either get to work or do their work - "you know, actuall work, not going on holiday" ?
Should have been moved at night.

Assuming you are going that far next time come off at jct 7 and go all the way down the A33, join the bottom of the A34 and then rejoin the M3 at jct 9.

[Flibble]

Blown2CV said:

Unbearable.

More efficient it may be but I just have a clear picture of you guys in my head now. You take your gold BA club card out and put it on the table so people can see, hoping that someone will ask... and even if they don't.... yea i travel, i mean it's like WORK WORK WORK yaknow it's not as glam as you might think but beats being stuck at an office HEY FNAR FNAR... still since the old credito cruncho i can't get bolly on the old Exes anymore... club instead of first, YAKNOW HOW IT IS EH? Considering basing myself in Paris since the old Brexxo, yaknow the old LDN just isn't what it was still might keep the old PAD at the old STOMPING GROUND i mean rent's THROUGH THE ROOF etc etc etc etc

please stop.

Gold? How plebian, surely they would be carrying a BA premier card.
And don't forget the cabin bag tag so it's even more obvious...

[Willy Nilly]

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

The throbber(s) who thought it would be a great idea on the first Saturday of the school holidays to send two of those ginormous dumper trucks on the back of wide load lorries down the southbound M3 at circa 15 mph.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish tts.

The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?

I would hope they had permission from the police, what difference does that make ? It was still a stty decision.
And how do you know where they were going was so important to cause miles and miles of tailbacks and let's face it, just because it's a Saturday morning doesn't mean that there weren't hundreds of other drivers also trying to either get to work or do their work - "you know, actuall work, not going on holiday" ?
Should have been moved at night.

These aren't pallets of baked beans.

They need a specialist haulier with specialist equipment and drivers. The trip will have been planned around movement orders from the police (if they were as big as you say), the place they were moving them from, the place they were moving them to, any road closures or lane restrictions, the drivers hours and availability, never mind all of the other schedules they need to keep to.

[MorganP104]

iSore said:

MorganP104 said:

Saw a modified BMW 3-Series with its numberplate in the windscreen over the weekend.

Clocked the driver (young man wearing a baseball cap).

Clocked his passenger (disinterested looking young woman tapping away at her phone).

Totally standard.

A red E90 perchance?

Nope, a gold E46. But I'm pretty sure I've seen red E90s with numberplates in the windscreen.

[Solocle]

G-d, for making it rain so heavily when I was driving back from LGW that I missed the exit for the M3. Then, when I used the roundabout at LHR, I missed the slip for M25 S... back on M25 N!! Fortunately, I got the M4 one, otherwise I could have ended up passing STN!

[berlintaxi]

So you didn't drive appropriately for the conditions and its Gods fault?

[Monkeylegend]

Solocle said:

G-d, for making it rain so heavily when I was driving back from LGW that I missed the exit for the M3. Then, when I used the roundabout at LHR, I missed the slip for M25 S... back on M25 N!! Fortunately, I got the M4 one, otherwise I could have ended up passing STN!

I don't think you should even be driving.

[MorganP104]

Solocle said:

G-d, for making it rain so heavily when I was driving back from LGW that I missed the exit for the M3. Then, when I used the roundabout at LHR, I missed the slip for M25 S... back on M25 N!! Fortunately, I got the M4 one, otherwise I could have ended up passing STN!

Dude, get new windscreen wipers!

[Oliverrun]

On the A424 towards Burford this morning. Here's a clue - if you get overtaken by a lorry, you're going too slowly

[Gunk]

Oliverrun said:

On the A424 towards Burford this morning. Here's a clue - if you get overtaken by a lorry, you're going too slowly

Nice road that, often go to Stratford that way, lovely in the summer.

[Bluedot]

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

The throbber(s) who thought it would be a great idea on the first Saturday of the school holidays to send two of those ginormous dumper trucks on the back of wide load lorries down the southbound M3 at circa 15 mph.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish tts.

The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?

I would hope they had permission from the police, what difference does that make ? It was still a stty decision.
And how do you know where they were going was so important to cause miles and miles of tailbacks and let's face it, just because it's a Saturday morning doesn't mean that there weren't hundreds of other drivers also trying to either get to work or do their work - "you know, actuall work, not going on holiday" ?
Should have been moved at night.

These aren't pallets of baked beans.

They need a specialist haulier with specialist equipment and drivers. The trip will have been planned around movement orders from the police (if they were as big as you say), the place they were moving them from, the place they were moving them to, any road closures or lane restrictions, the drivers hours and availability, never mind all of the other schedules they need to keep to.

You're right, they weren't pallets of baked beans, if they were then they wouldn't have caused ridiculous tailbacks on the first Saturday morning of the school holidays.
Any decision to move them at that time was wrong, they were big tipper trucks, it wasn't a life and death situation. Drivers and schedules should be made to fit in with the other 99.9% of us that use the motorway, not the other way round.
Whilst we all moan about say a motorway being shut for 10 miles at 2am in the morning, there is a reason why it is done at that time of day, can you guess why that is ? I'll give you a clue, it's because it's the quietest time on the road, it probably doesn't fit in with everyone involved in the work but hey it fits in with 99% of the rest of us and is the most sensible time to do it.

[Jim AK]

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

The throbber(s) who thought it would be a great idea on the first Saturday of the school holidays to send two of those ginormous dumper trucks on the back of wide load lorries down the southbound M3 at circa 15 mph.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish tts.

The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?

I would hope they had permission from the police, what difference does that make ? It was still a stty decision.
And how do you know where they were going was so important to cause miles and miles of tailbacks and let's face it, just because it's a Saturday morning doesn't mean that there weren't hundreds of other drivers also trying to either get to work or do their work - "you know, actuall work, not going on holiday" ?
Should have been moved at night.

These aren't pallets of baked beans.

They need a specialist haulier with specialist equipment and drivers. The trip will have been planned around movement orders from the police (if they were as big as you say), the place they were moving them from, the place they were moving them to, any road closures or lane restrictions, the drivers hours and availability, never mind all of the other schedules they need to keep to.

In other words. fk you other road users!

[Solocle]

MorganP104 said:

Solocle said:

G-d, for making it rain so heavily when I was driving back from LGW that I missed the exit for the M3. Then, when I used the roundabout at LHR, I missed the slip for M25 S... back on M25 N!! Fortunately, I got the M4 one, otherwise I could have ended up passing STN!

Dude, get new windscreen wipers!

It was torrential, and immediate. Went on for miles. So I stayed in the lane I was in (happened to be the outside lane, but I was still overtaking stuff). In those conditions, the safest course of action was just to stick in the lane and make sure I was driving appropriately for my position on the road (I didn't hold people up). When the rain eased, I took stock of my journey plans. During the rain, I was just focused on driving. Signage was unreadable, and it was the first time I'd driven that stretch, so I didn't know where the exit was.

[lucido grigio]

Solocle said:

MorganP104 said:

Solocle said:

G-d, for making it rain so heavily when I was driving back from LGW that I missed the exit for the M3. Then, when I used the roundabout at LHR, I missed the slip for M25 S... back on M25 N!! Fortunately, I got the M4 one, otherwise I could have ended up passing STN!

Dude, get new windscreen wipers!

It was torrential, and immediate. Went on for miles. So I stayed in the lane I was in (happened to be the outside lane, but I was still overtaking stuff). In those conditions, the safest course of action was just to stick in the lane and make sure I was driving appropriately for my position on the road (I didn't hold people up). When the rain eased, I took stock of my journey plans. During the rain, I was just focused on driving. Signage was unreadable, and it was the first time I'd driven that stretch, so I didn't know where the exit was.

You also managed to completely miss J13 ,A30 Egham.

[Solocle]

lucido grigio said:

You also managed to completely miss J13 ,A30 Egham.

I think I was aware of the A30, but seeing as I have been to LHR before, I knew that there was a roundabout there. I didn't want to get lost on the A30 (even though it goes < 2miles from my house! it's not contiguous).

[yellowjack]

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

The throbber(s) who thought it would be a great idea on the first Saturday of the school holidays to send two of those ginormous dumper trucks on the back of wide load lorries down the southbound M3 at circa 15 mph.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish tts.

The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?

I would hope they had permission from the police, what difference does that make ? It was still a stty decision.
And how do you know where they were going was so important to cause miles and miles of tailbacks and let's face it, just because it's a Saturday morning doesn't mean that there weren't hundreds of other drivers also trying to either get to work or do their work - "you know, actuall work, not going on holiday" ?
Should have been moved at night.

These aren't pallets of baked beans.

They need a specialist haulier with specialist equipment and drivers. The trip will have been planned around movement orders from the police (if they were as big as you say), the place they were moving them from, the place they were moving them to, any road closures or lane restrictions, the drivers hours and availability, never mind all of the other schedules they need to keep to.

You're right, they weren't pallets of baked beans, if they were then they wouldn't have caused ridiculous tailbacks on the first Saturday morning of the school holidays.
Any decision to move them at that time was wrong, they were big tipper trucks, it wasn't a life and death situation. Drivers and schedules should be made to fit in with the other 99.9% of us that use the motorway, not the other way round.
Whilst we all moan about say a motorway being shut for 10 miles at 2am in the morning, there is a reason why it is done at that time of day, can you guess why that is ? I'll give you a clue, it's because it's the quietest time on the road, it probably doesn't fit in with everyone involved in the work but hey it fits in with 99% of the rest of us and is the most sensible time to do it.

Just a thought. Maybe the trucks HAD to be moved then. Overnight M3 closures would make a two-lane oversize load impossible to shift on the A30 diversion routes. And you say it was the southbound M3. At the bottom of which is the major shipping port of Southampton. Where, quite possibly, the trucks were due aboard a ship for export.

But fk the economy, and people whose jobs depend on such things. So long as everybody's blessed children can go on their holidays the very second school kicks out. There's seven fking weeks for you to get a holiday in. Selfish cretins. Everything has to revolve around your ing children. Parking in, or blocking people's driveways to drop them off at school. Driving like a tit to get to school in time to drop them off or collect them. Ignoring traffic lights and give way lines on your journey to/from work because school timings make you late. Generally clogging up the roads with zillions of cars carrying your precious princes and princesses. They should be walking, or on school buses like we all were as kids, and like mine were the whole time they were at school. fking selfish parents, whinging about trucks causing delays on one day of the year, when you cause abject misery for millions on 195 bloody days of the year, all of which are working days. You must cost the economy billions simply because you won't allow your children to walk to bloody school...

[AlexRS2782]

Plus, as I mentioned one page back, the M3 hasn't just been being closed from 2 to 4a recently, They've also been doing lane closures during the night, and sometimes full night closures, around junctions 6 & 7 (Basingstoke) with diversions via the usual routes like the A30, A303, A34, etc, to rejoin the M3 at the Winchester junctions where / when required.

Seeing as the reference is to the 2 lane stretch of the M3 (so between the A303 feeder & Winchester) it's likely those trucks wouldn't have been able to be moved at night if that stretch of the M3 is either restricted or closed.

[ezi]

yellowjack said:

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

Willy Nilly said:

Bluedot said:

The throbber(s) who thought it would be a great idea on the first Saturday of the school holidays to send two of those ginormous dumper trucks on the back of wide load lorries down the southbound M3 at circa 15 mph.
Not content with blocking one lane, these things block two, which meant that in the places where the M3 is 2 lanes there was a crawling roadblock for 15-20 ish miles.
And all this at 10am on a Saturday morning.
100% selfish tts.

The probably has permission from the police to move them when they did. These are machines going to a job, you know, actuall work, not going on holiday. Would you rather they were moved at 7 tomorrow morning?

I would hope they had permission from the police, what difference does that make ? It was still a stty decision.
And how do you know where they were going was so important to cause miles and miles of tailbacks and let's face it, just because it's a Saturday morning doesn't mean that there weren't hundreds of other drivers also trying to either get to work or do their work - "you know, actuall work, not going on holiday" ?
Should have been moved at night.

These aren't pallets of baked beans.

They need a specialist haulier with specialist equipment and drivers. The trip will have been planned around movement orders from the police (if they were as big as you say), the place they were moving them from, the place they were moving them to, any road closures or lane restrictions, the drivers hours and availability, never mind all of the other schedules they need to keep to.

You're right, they weren't pallets of baked beans, if they were then they wouldn't have caused ridiculous tailbacks on the first Saturday morning of the school holidays.
Any decision to move them at that time was wrong, they were big tipper trucks, it wasn't a life and death situation. Drivers and schedules should be made to fit in with the other 99.9% of us that use the motorway, not the other way round.
Whilst we all moan about say a motorway being shut for 10 miles at 2am in the morning, there is a reason why it is done at that time of day, can you guess why that is ? I'll give you a clue, it's because it's the quietest time on the road, it probably doesn't fit in with everyone involved in the work but hey it fits in with 99% of the rest of us and is the most sensible time to do it.

Just a thought. Maybe the trucks HAD to be moved then. Overnight M3 closures would make a two-lane oversize load impossible to shift on the A30 diversion routes. And you say it was the southbound M3. At the bottom of which is the major shipping port of Southampton. Where, quite possibly, the trucks were due aboard a ship for export.

But fk the economy, and people whose jobs depend on such things. So long as everybody's blessed children can go on their holidays the very second school kicks out. There's seven fking weeks for you to get a holiday in. Selfish cretins. Everything has to revolve around your ing children. Parking in, or blocking people's driveways to drop them off at school. Driving like a tit to get to school in time to drop them off or collect them. Ignoring traffic lights and give way lines on your journey to/from work because school timings make you late. Generally clogging up the roads with zillions of cars carrying your precious princes and princesses. They should be walking, or on school buses like we all were as kids, and like mine were the whole time they were at school. fking selfish parents, whinging about trucks causing delays on one day of the year, when you cause abject misery for millions on 195 bloody days of the year, all of which are working days. You must cost the economy billions simply because you won't allow your children to walk to bloody school...

Preach

Sorry to break it to you but that equipment being moved was almost certainly more important than your holiday - loads such as what you're describing don't just get permission to be moved at times such as that on a whim.

[MechMovement]

The Churchill advert on the radio that mentions "belonging in the fast lane"