Warning signs on large vehicles.

[Gez73]

Are these warning messages legal requirement now? They are on all our Tankers and most of the trailers and lorries. Just wondered, have seen them on buses for ages but then buses do pull in quite a bit.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

From another thread...

Good news From LFGSS:


"We met TfL who agreed to
1. Ask FORS to remove stickers from small vehicles
2. Remove stickers from buses until a new wording is agreed
3. Write to other fleet owners requesting they remove stickers
4. Agree new wording for stickers on large lorries and buses.
5. Issue guidance with the new stickers on their use
6. Create a tfl web page with advice about the stickers

We have also recommended some different wording to TFLs marketing people.
Anything else Charlie?"

http://www.lfgss.com/thread129053.html

 

[fossyant]

They seem to be advisory, namby pamby stuff.

Stagecoach have a better one on their busses, shows a bus indicating left, with a cyclist on the right. Says something like, Cyclists pass with caution.

 

[Paul99]

I saw a beauty this morning.

It actually said "Cyclists DO NOT pass on the inside of this vehicle" with an arrow underneath pointing to the left.

It was on the back of a lorry that was parked in a layby on the A127. Well I say parked in the layby, what I actually mean is it was parked half in the layby and fully on the shared use path that runs next to the dual carriageway.

Luckily there was plenty of room for me to pass on his right hand side without actually entering the road.

Nobber.