Fuel for the anti-lorry lobby
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With regard to your comments many times on the anti-lorry lobby, I would like to put forward a couple of cases I recently witnessed that can hardly have helped.
The first took place on the motorway just outside Newport Mon, on the way to the Severn Bridge. I was on my way to a steam fair when I met two Foden articulated wagons (one without a rear number plate). They were fully loaded with rolls of paper and seemed to be having a race as they were blocking up both lanes of the motorway (this being a two-lane motorway). It took a great distance before one of them managed to pass the other, allowing traffic from behind to pass. What is interesting about this case is that on my return journey one of these Fodens was parked on the hard shoulder near the Severn Bridge with burntout tyres on its trailer. I thank my lucky stars this didn't happen when I was behind it.
The other case took place on another day between Port Talbot and Pyle where there was a two-mile traffic jam. I was stuck in this jam with many others when a Leyland Group Ergomatic-cabbed four-wheel platform lorry (J registered in Glamorgan belonging to a local Bridgend operator) was queue jumping when it came alongside me. At the same time a lorry came from the opposite direction (this part of the road is only two-lane) so the driver had to pull in to his nearside where I was situated, making me take avoiding action. When the other lorry passed he sped off crossing many double and single white lines in the road, giving me a cheery V-sign.
I am not trying to make out that these are normal occurrences but these are the ones that stay in people's minds.
C. J. TAYLOR, Chairman, North West Association, Divisional Young Conservatives, Cardiff.