On Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 9:25:49 AM UTC, NY wrote:
"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 13/02/2019 21:19, wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 February 2019 12:27:03 UTC, wrote:

Overheard someone talking to someone that was going to supply her a
temporary vehicle. She was very concerned that the car should be at
least a 2.0 as she intends to dive on the motorway.

I assume they offered a beemer, because she said

€œI dont know anything about BMWs I drive a Jaguar.
I dont know if they can be driven on the motorway.€�


How the other half lives! I used to take my 1.0 Metros from London to
Preston & back on the motorway on a regular basis (leaving Jaguars and
BMs eating my lead!)

Luxury! I used to do long journeys in a thing with a wooden floor that
topped out at 52mph. Eventually.

One guy I worked with drove from Manchester to deepest Cornwall and back
in one of those small, 4-wheel, rear-steer cranes with a top speed of
12mph !!!

I bet he was popular when he was on single-carriageway roads where
overtaking isn't easy.

Is it my imagination or are drivers of abnormally slow vehicles (eg
tractors) less willing to pull into a layby to let faster traffic past? I
used to see tractors pulling very large, heavy (possibly overloaded)
trailers along the single-carriageway sections of the A64 and it was *very*
rare that they would pull off anywhere between Malton and York - and three
are very few sections of that road that have a long enough straight section
to allow safe overtaking.

I wish the law would be changed to say that tractors are only allowed on the
road for short journeys between one field and another of a farm, and that
for all longer-distance journeys trailers had to be hauled by a lorry that
was capable of reaching the speed limit, rather than a tractor with (at
best) a top speed of 30.

No its the selfish cyclists in their peloton who wouldn't dream of single filing to let traffic through. And they wonder why motorists hate them.

Actually I think there should be a law that pelotons have to go single file whne in 30mph zones.