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Engage brain first, please
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Mr X stands up for the M42 thick overtaking ban and calls for a little understanding between road users.
Once again the RHA and FTA have opened their mouths before engaging their brains.
In their eagerness to appease their noisier members, King, Turner and Co have condemned what is probably one of the more sensible and cost-effective measures proposed by the OfT, namely the M42 truck overtaking ban. What's worse, they're squealing like stuck pigs because the police have the audacity to enforce it.
Forgive me if I seem a little slow, but in my book a ban means just that. When it's flouted by moronic drivers whose living depends on maintaining
"Woe betide any opportuni truck driver who thinks he can nip out and overtake the slower truck in front"
It's unreasonable to expect the government to keep building extra motorway crawler lanes. Of course we'd all like to see more of the crawler lanes that feature so effectively on the Continent. But unlike most of our EU neighbours space in the UK comes at too high a price. But hey! Wait a minute, are we missing the point here? On those crawler lanes on the Continent, woe betide any opportunist truck driver who thinks he can nip out and overtake the slower truck in front. Not likely —they fine you for that sort of behaviour!
The time has come when our industry has to seriously consider how it's seen to behave in public. This M42 business highlights its worst side. We have to be seen to give a little back to our fellow road users. To keep in line is courteous; it's common sense, and it costs nothing except a little time. It's only for three miles, for goodness sake. And with today's high-torque engines, gradients aren't the problem they were a few years back. Car van, and truck drivers alike have to learn to live with each other, appreciate each other's problems, and above all, create a safe place to work in. Better still, the associations could spend some of their energy on useful advice to help all road users understand each other's problems.