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or do you enjoy seeing a tailback behind you ??

Quote: Originally posted by bobsbabes on 12/7/2009

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or do you enjoy seeing a tailback ??

 

 

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 A few years ago a group of us drove several steam traction engines from Dorset to St Agnes in Cornwall. The biggest weighed 20 tons plus the two trailers, max speed 10 mph. Now that does cause tailbacks!, especially with a train length of over 60 ft.

 The interesting thing was, over the 5 days it took us, we had very little agro from traffic we had held up, and there was quite a lot, most people gave us a wave and many stopped further on to take photographs, only to get stuck behind us again. One thing about towing with a steam engine, no worries about nose weight or instability.

  After that experience, as long as I am keeping up with the flow of traffic and driving within the speed limit of that road, a queue behind me is of no interest to me one way or the other.

  Pete.

Quote: Originally posted by Grampian91 on 13/7/2009

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I usually find most of the traffic cannot keep up with me...


You do get the odd one or two than make it past the caravan but not the car before they realise there is no more road left for them.

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Ohhh hubby loves a tailback...but only so he gets to pull over and show them that caravanners are nice, considerate drivers. And he waves as they go past! lol

Rach

Quote: Originally posted by wilsonclanx6 on 13/7/2009

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Ohhh hubby loves a tailback...but only so he gets to pull over and show them that caravanners are nice, considerate drivers. And he waves as they go past! lol

Rach

 

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Quote: Originally posted by wilsonclanx6 on 13/7/2009

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Ohhh hubby loves a tailback...but only so he gets to pull over and show them that caravanners are nice, considerate drivers. And he waves as they go past! lol

Rach

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i do that unless there is a tawt on my tail that is trying to go for gaps that dont exist or there is a wagon a couple of vehicles back as the wagon gets blamed for the hold up

what really annoys me on the a-roads is the little old granny/grandad in her jazz/micra/ka that refuses to do more than 40 and holds me up and of course being the caravan i am the one that folk will be swearing at.  did think of putting in my back window "it isnt me holding you up there is a car in front of me that the driver doesnt know what the throttle is for" or "hey it is a sunny day, nice day for a drive, stop swearing at me and enjoy the journey"