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Post by phil70 on Jan 28, 2018 13:12:08 GMT
Our marina is of a single track adopted road and it has not been touched for some years. Down the road are an assortment of houses,farms an Eco campsite a cattery and the marina.. The road is now at the tipping point, it is breaking up into slabs the one official passing place is failing due to HGVs failing to stop and just going off road. This means that the sides of the road are crumbling and the ruts are so deep that if you go off in your car it will bottom and get stuck. This has happened to several people that I know. I wrote to my MP and he has replied that he will take action. Not holding my breath Phil
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Post by phil70 on Jan 28, 2018 14:59:08 GMT
Snigger! Phil
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Post by phil70 on Jan 28, 2018 15:03:54 GMT
My MP is Mathew Hancock and his election flyers came folder in half, it puzzled me at first seeing the word COCK emblazoned across the front of a bit of junk mail Phil
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Post by kris on Jan 28, 2018 15:06:06 GMT
My MP is Mathew Hancock and his election flyers came folder in half, it puzzled me at first seeing the word COCK emblazoned across the front of a bit of junk mail Phil he's perhaps an honest mp?
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 28, 2018 15:16:06 GMT
My MP is Mathew Hancock and his election flyers came folder in half, it puzzled me at first seeing the word COCK emblazoned across the front of a bit of junk mail Phil he's perhaps an honest mp?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 15:24:34 GMT
" Sean Davies of Colwyn Bay used a phone to check his route during a 10-day trip to Croatia in the summer of 2017 and has admitted to the traffic commissioner he was "silly". " Really? I would have taken a road atlas with me. If you look at his speedometer (80km/h and 2000 revs), the 'safety length' between his bus and the truck in front is something around a tenth of a second (if the truck were to stop suddenly). Well either an atlas or a good Sat Nav. If he had half a brain he would even have been able to use his phone as a proper sat nav anyway, giving him turn by turn directions using Google Maps or an App. like Waze. Put in a holder on the dash job done. Instead he thought it cleverer to risk his life, the life of his passengers and other road users. But then surely modern coaches have access to dedicated Sat Navs?? Yes it appears they do - not cheap but hell's teeth what price your life the lives of others or your livelihood? www.snooper.co.uk/bus-coach/bus-coach-satellite-navigation.html
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Post by bodger on Jan 28, 2018 16:46:31 GMT
That’s pretty much all we need to know about Matt Hancock: he comes across as yet another vapid Westminster bubble-blower dependent on taxpayer handouts, who has risen without trace from the intern pool to occupy serial offices of state, like his predecessor, John Major." ........... who was possibly the last decent honest and relatively humble man to hold power in this country.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 16:50:21 GMT
That’s pretty much all we need to know about Matt Hancock: he comes across as yet another vapid Westminster bubble-blower dependent on taxpayer handouts, who has risen without trace from the intern pool to occupy serial offices of state, like his predecessor, John Major." ........... who was possibly the last decent honest and relatively humble man to hold power in this country. Didn't he have an affair with the egg woman - not decent or honest...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 17:38:19 GMT
But then surely modern coaches have access to dedicated Sat Navs?? . We had a SatNav in our rental car at Christmas (Ford Fiesta and Ford's own SatNav) - it was crap. You get to a junction and then there's no voice - left or right? Nothing. No I agree ours, which is supposed to be specific to towing a caravan tries to take us up some stupid routes on occasions even though I've programmed it with our outfit size. I'm genuinely surprised they are not more common in coaches.
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Post by zigspider on Jan 28, 2018 17:56:20 GMT
We swear by ( and sometimes at ) the google maps woman..
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 17:56:43 GMT
I don't know much about it as I have only ever driven civilian cars and vans and various secret service flying amphibious road vehicles but it seems that traveling by coach is "too cheap". Maybe the operating costs are cut down so aggressively that things like proper gps systems would be outside of the budget ?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 17:58:05 GMT
We swear by ( and sometimes at ) the google maps woman.. My woman's Google maps has two different voices. If she programs her phone to do a route it keeps changing the voice output. I think one of them is english and the other american. Its very confusing having to listen to both of them and myself muttering about the traffic, our kids talking non stop - and the voices in my head !
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 28, 2018 20:13:56 GMT
We swear by ( and sometimes at ) the google maps woman.. My woman's Google maps has two different voices. If she programs her phone to do a route it keeps changing the voice output. I think one of them is english and the other american. Its very confusing having to listen to both of them and myself muttering about the traffic, our kids talking non stop - and the voices in my head ! You need a Yorkshire satnav. When you switch it on it'll say "Nah then", then complete silence unless you have a head on collision where it'll say "I've 'ad worse".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 20:26:23 GMT
Coaches and buses generally run along the same routes, SatNavs would really be an 'over the top' toy. If I were doing something exotic such as driving to Croatia I would really want to ask about the route well in advance - where are the low bridges is a must! Speed limits, country laws, etc. What I do is nothing like that - I'm just a put-out-to-grass-donkey, which is fine with me. I'm under-deployed but I'm happy with that, just hiding in a corner, enjoying the scenery at my own slow pace - although, of course, I am a thoroughbred racehorse and could pull long-haul coaches across Europe. I do like driving long distances such as Finland to the UK by car. It's amazing to drive along empty roads right across central Scandinavia, mountains on the horizon, endless forest and mooses, waterfalls and river rapids beside the road. 4.5 years ago when I worked for a local cowboy for 3 months (all went well but glad to get away from him with his dodgy practices) I had his SatNav and played with it a bit. You can programme it to say you want to go from A to B and it will run you through the route - you can speed it up by various factors. I wondered what the route looked like when you go through long tunnels in Norway (longest is 15 miles end to end). You can also have it in different languages and for a while I drove with it on in Afrikaans. I keep thinking it would be a fine thing to do this Summer, to drive our car to England. Am still thinking about this, although I know it is much cleverer to fly at 500mph across all the various bits of water. I have a load of books and DVDs which should really be taken to a charity shop in England, and a car would be the best way to shift 'em. But then, when you're feeling tired you can just have a snooze in a plane - you can't do that in a car when you have distance to cover. You can actually drive from here all the way to the French coast without having to drive onto a ferry, now that the Sweden-Denmark bridge has been built, and the bridges in middle Denmark. I can't help thinking the Oresund Bridge was built in the wrong place, it would have been better Helsingor-Helsingborg, which is where ferries still run. 15 mile road tunnel? That's a long road tunnel. Eta I'd want a pretty comfy motorcar for a long journey like that. I would probably be forced to get the Bentley out of the garage rather than use the Saab in this sort of situation.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 28, 2018 20:28:05 GMT
But then surely modern coaches have access to dedicated Sat Navs?? I haven't seen any in the buses I drive (sometimes 'mine' is away for servicing), but of course drivers could bring their own for tourism routes. Although I think the work we do rarely requires navigation, those doing the runs to Estonia know the lay of the land, and those shuttling over-wealthy Brits round Lapland just take 'em up & down the same roads. Whenever I have a 'charter' drive I look it up on the GT Atlas (road atlas for Finland) and on Google Maps beforehand with the Street View Man to familiarise myself with what's coming and if it's worth driving a bus down such-and-such a street. We had a SatNav in our rental car at Christmas (Ford Fiesta and Ford's own SatNav) - it was crap. You get to a junction and then there's no voice - left or right? Nothing. I have a dedicated truck satnav and it's very good- height, weight and width are programmable and it is very accurate 99.9% of the time, although even the best satnav will be a false friend on occasion. I only paid about £40 for it on ebay and despite it being a generic Chinese made satnav, it's 100x better than the TomTom it replaced. This sort of thing. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XGODY-5-Inch-Car-Truck-GPS-Navigation-Lorry-Coach-HGV-Navigator-SAT-NAV-8GB-ROM/272521645477?epid=632013285&hash=item3f738e4da5:g:mRYAAOSwLjxaXI9g
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