John wrote:

It seems that in wet weather many suffer due to a vehicle going off the
tarmac and making a rutt in the adjacent earth.

There's a little "back lane" round here that hasn't suffered from that
problem in the 30 years I've lived here, but it has done this winter,
the council have been and filled in the tracks, but they've cut up again
in other stretches, I was wondering if it's due to satnavs directing
yodel drivers along it?