TRUE KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD • On Saturday, 15 October,
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I and another driver Paul (Ghostrider), who drives for ANC (Newcastle upon Tyne), were northbound on the Al at Scotch Corner at approximately 5am. Visibility was about 15-20 yards maximum.
At the M66 slip road I had to swerve to miss a car which had been left in the nearside lane, with no lights on Paul and other drivers had to do the same. Fortunately, no one hit the vehicle. Paul, using his CB, called the police.
We stopped on the hard shoulder on the M66 slip road and Paul disappeared, and a Lynx driver and I ran back to the abandoned vehicle to move it. As we got to it, Paul had already pushed it onto the hard shoulder by himself, without thinking of the danger he was in. It was difficult for him, as the steering lock was on and vehicles were approaching and just missing him and the vehicle. Having moved it, he calmly got back in his cab and the police arrived.
It just goes to show that the British truck driver is not as bad as everybody likes to think.
Alan (Ploughman), Stretford, Manchester.