Re: Don't Overtake on Blind Corners. Please.
awrightski Wrote:
It was my understanding from my delightful speed awareness course that the lower limit for hgvs is there to and was designed to make overtaking easier and safer for cars. My issue with the unnamed Fort william haulage company is their limiter sitting on straights and irritatingly low speed on bends just pisses the queue behind them off leading to people overtaking in dangerous spots. Arguments either way I guess.
Anyway rant over, ski forum.
40 mph limit was introduced when truck braking was ahem, performance restricted.
Many decades ago I remember reading a newspaper article that had identified a new breed of driver calle a Trog, Their behaviour was just as you described, and the purpose of this was to achieve "a conker", which was a queue of at least 20 vehicles stuck behind them. Senior trogs could achieve double-conkers.
I still comment about trogs and conkers when driving, and passengers haven't a clue what I'm going on about.