Today I'm angry about.....

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Not wild about 'many time' either.
Much time, shirley, or many times, if referring to occasions.
Show me them fingers, LLS

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Not wild about 'many time' either.
Much time, shirley, or many times, if referring to occasions.
Show me them fingers, LLS

have much finger jimbo

[bobo the clown]

Driver wankers.

I was on my journey into work. Normally anything between 40min to an hour.

I make good progress till joining one motorway from another & on the slip road .... static traffic. Fck .... but hey, shit happens. I make 2 miles progress over almost an hour & then notice, to my right, on the OTHER carriageway, a vehicle being loaded onto a wagon. It's obviouslyhad a bump. Again, I stress, ON THE OTHER side ofthe road.

From that point my side's traffic picks up fluency and we're back to normal road movement.

An hour, to go 2 miles because people slow down due to an accident which has no reason to delay us whatsoever.

Grrrrrrrr.

[thebish]

Driver wankers.

I was on my journey into work. Normally anything between 40min to an hour.

I make good progress till joining one motorway from another & on the slip road .... static traffic. Fck .... but hey, shit happens. I make 2 miles progress over almost an hour & then notice, to my right, on the OTHER carriageway, a vehicle being loaded onto a wagon. It's obviouslyhad a bump. Again, I stress, ON THE OTHER side ofthe road.

From that point my side's traffic picks up fluency and we're back to normal road movement.

An hour, to go 2 miles because people slow down due to an accident which has no reason to delay us whatsoever.

Grrrrrrrr.

ahhh - rubberneckers... how many of us, honestly, don't look (and subconsciously slow down) when there's been an accident? maybe there was debris that had been cleared by the time you arrived?

saw a programme a few years ago where they used aerial footage to show the impact of a driver cutting someone up on a motorway and causing them to brake sharply - this led to a chain reaction that over about half a mile led to traffic congestion and cars slowing down to about 30mph...

how many times have you been through a slow-down for about half a mile and then everyone speeds up and there is no apparent visible cause...

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

They don't just slow down here. They stop the car, get out and climb on the roof for a good look. Often the camera phone comes out as well. To be fair, the crashes are often spectacular here. Usually it will involve a Landcruiser tailgaiting with a 3mm gap at 200kph + in the outside lane. The irony being that the other 5 lanes are clear for about a mile ahead. The other common one is from lane 6 to the slip road with no indicators and without staying in lanes 1-5 for any longer than a second. Again, usually at 200kph +.

[bobo the clown]

Driver wankers.

I was on my journey into work. Normally anything between 40min to an hour.

I make good progress till joining one motorway from another & on the slip road .... static traffic. Fck .... but hey, shit happens. I make 2 miles progress over almost an hour & then notice, to my right, on the OTHER carriageway, a vehicle being loaded onto a wagon. It's obviouslyhad a bump. Again, I stress, ON THE OTHER side ofthe road.

From that point my side's traffic picks up fluency and we're back to normal road movement.

An hour, to go 2 miles because people slow down due to an accident which has no reason to delay us whatsoever.

Grrrrrrrr.

ahhh - rubberneckers... how many of us, honestly, don't look (and subconsciously slow down) when there's been an accident? maybe there was debris that had been cleared by the time you arrived?

saw a programme a few years ago where they used aerial footage to show the impact of a driver cutting someone up on a motorway and causing them to brake sharply - this led to a chain reaction that over about half a mile led to traffic congestion and cars slowing down to about 30mph...

how many times have you been through a slow-down for about half a mile and then everyone speeds up and there is no apparent visible cause...

The usual cause of "telescoping" is some dweed overtaking another at an incremental speed difference of maybe 1 mile an hour. It can take miles for a lorry going at 60 to overtake another at 59. (I'm sure someone's going to work this out now).

[thebish]

The usual cause of "telescoping" is some dweed overtaking another at an incremental speed difference of maybe 1 mile an hour. It can take miles for a lorry going at 60 to overtake another at 59. (I'm sure someone's going to work this out now).

oh - aye!! isn't that agonising to watch on a dual carriageway!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It can take miles for a lorry going at 60 to overtake another at 59. (I'm sure someone's going to work this out now).

If lorry A is x feet long and lorry B is y feet long then the distance passed = x+y+z where z is a safe separation zone between lorries which can be worked out by the stopping distance at the speed the overtaken lorry is travelling at divided by Speightman's constant қ
thus (x+y+([Φ*60]*қ)*60)/59
So for an average length lorry travelling at 59mph to be overtaken by another average length lorry travelling at 60mph it will take 11.4723666 light years to pass!

[BWFC_Insane]

It can take miles for a lorry going at 60 to overtake another at 59. (I'm sure someone's going to work this out now).

If lorry A is x feet long and lorry B is y feet long then the distance passed = x+y+z where z is a safe separation zone between lorries which can be worked out by the stopping distance at the speed the overtaken lorry is travelling at divided by Speightman's constant қ
thus (x+y+([Φ*60]*қ)*60)/59
So for an average length lorry travelling at 59mph to be overtaken by another average length lorry travelling at 60mph it will take 11.4723666 light years to pass!

Surely the distance passed is only y+z

And the "safe stopping distance" thing. I'm assuming that's half a yard at most.....

[Prufrock]

If it's going one mile per hour faster, then in just one hour, rather than 'hours' it will be a mile further ahead. If it hasn't passed by then that's one looooooooong lorry.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It can take miles for a lorry going at 60 to overtake another at 59. (I'm sure someone's going to work this out now).

If lorry A is x feet long and lorry B is y feet long then the distance passed = x+y+z where z is a safe separation zone between lorries which can be worked out by the stopping distance at the speed the overtaken lorry is travelling at divided by Speightman's constant қ
thus (x+y+([Φ*60]*қ)*60)/59
So for an average length lorry travelling at 59mph to be overtaken by another average length lorry travelling at 60mph it will take 11.4723666 light years to pass!

Surely the distance passed is only y+z

And the "safe stopping distance" thing. I'm assuming that's half a yard at most.....

No. The lorry cannot pull in the instant it has passed the length of itself plus the length of the other lorry because the lorries would then be separated by no length whatsoever. But yes, half a yard stopping distance at 59mph sounds about right to me.

[BWFC_Insane]

It can take miles for a lorry going at 60 to overtake another at 59. (I'm sure someone's going to work this out now).

If lorry A is x feet long and lorry B is y feet long then the distance passed = x+y+z where z is a safe separation zone between lorries which can be worked out by the stopping distance at the speed the overtaken lorry is travelling at divided by Speightman's constant қ
thus (x+y+([Φ*60]*қ)*60)/59
So for an average length lorry travelling at 59mph to be overtaken by another average length lorry travelling at 60mph it will take 11.4723666 light years to pass!

Surely the distance passed is only y+z

And the "safe stopping distance" thing. I'm assuming that's half a yard at most.....

No. The lorry cannot pull in the instant it has passed the length of itself plus the length of the other lorry because the lorries would then be separated by no length whatsoever. But yes, half a yard stopping distance at 59mph sounds about right to me.

Ok well in that case surely y+2z??

[bwfcdan94]

It can take miles for a lorry going at 60 to overtake another at 59. (I'm sure someone's going to work this out now).

If lorry A is x feet long and lorry B is y feet long then the distance passed = x+y+z where z is a safe separation zone between lorries which can be worked out by the stopping distance at the speed the overtaken lorry is travelling at divided by Speightman's constant қ
thus (x+y+([Φ*60]*қ)*60)/59
So for an average length lorry travelling at 59mph to be overtaken by another average length lorry travelling at 60mph it will take 11.4723666 light years to pass!

Submit it to the exam board.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Was going to the match today. That was until I got a call at half past nine to say the on-duty bloke had called in sick and I was next on the roster.
I'm now feckin on call until 4pm. Come Monday morning I'm dis-volunteering from that roster.

[bobo the clown]

Was going to the match today. That was until I got a call at half past nine to say the on-duty bloke had called in sick and I was next on the roster.
I'm now feckin on call until 4pm. Come Monday morning I'm dis-volunteering from that roster.

Can you investigte whether the first guy actually is sick or just felt like crying off ?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Was going to the match today. That was until I got a call at half past nine to say the on-duty bloke had called in sick and I was next on the roster.
I'm now feckin on call until 4pm. Come Monday morning I'm dis-volunteering from that roster.

Can you investigte whether the first guy actually is sick or just felt like crying off ?

Tbf there's a lot of illness going around at the moment. I was more surprised than anything because it's the first time in six years that I've suddenly found myself next on the roster. I'd almost forgotten that it existed. And I do get overtime at double rate for doing sod all - I just need to be available on the phone (whilst not drinking!) just in case I need to coordinate emergency services. It was just the fact I was looking forward to the match. I'm less angry now, and just resigned to it. Time (three hours) is a great healer, and I've discovered a horde of Bombay Mix in a cupboard.

[TANGODANCER]

Was going to the match today. That was until I got a call at half past nine to say the on-duty bloke had called in sick and I was next on the roster.
I'm now feckin on call until 4pm. Come Monday morning I'm dis-volunteering from that roster.

Come and join the radio revellers on the match thread.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Was going to the match today. That was until I got a call at half past nine to say the on-duty bloke had called in sick and I was next on the roster.
I'm now feckin on call until 4pm. Come Monday morning I'm dis-volunteering from that roster.

Come and join the radio revellers on the match thread.

Yep I'll be listening in to Radio TD.

[Wandering Willy]

Yep I'll be listening in to Radio KD.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Yep I'll be listening in to Radio SKD.

fixed it for you Willy.