Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
- Location
- On the edge of reality
I'm on a nice sunny jolly today. A few minutes ago, I was stopped at a very nasty little (light controlled) junction, just on the Western approach to Fareham, on the A27. I caught up with a tipper truck who had passed me a couple of minutes back (giving me plenty of room, and passing me impeccably) who had stopped at the lights. I filtered to his off side, and stopped wide enough of his truck, and far enough back that I could see him in his mirrors, he acknowledged my presence. Then he actually moved forward a bit, so that as he moved off, I could get in behind him, and over to the near side, in good time, even the chap behind the truck left a gap for me. The lights changed, he moved off, I got over, nobody got all beepy / flashy, that's a very rare occurrence. It just goes to show, despite the bad press, generated by the 'bad apples', some tipper truck drivers, do know how to drive around vulnerable road users. The truck had lots of words on it, I'm not sure which one was the company that owned it, and unfortunately the phone number was obscured, but that was a superb bit of driving, and I just wish they all drove like that
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Always good to be appreciated.
I had something like this on the Snake Pass today. A set of temporary traffic lights had been installed on the way to the summit.There looked to be around 150 metres of restricted road and I was first at the lights waiting for them to change. A tipper lorry pulled up behind me, but giving me space, not right up my arse. Given I still had some climbing to do on the stretch and I would hold him back, when the lights changed I indicated he should go ahead. The driver showed me his appreciation as well as giving me a me wide berth.
. Which is more than I can say for the four cars behind him.
