Owing to the number of motorway accidents the National Committee of Common Sense (that’s me) has investigated the rules, found them insufficient and has updated sections of the Highway Code (the British book of the road) and the Road Traffic Act (the law) with the following legislative changes.
These changes come in to immediate effect.
1. All HGVs will be confined to the left-hand lane.
This is simply a logical extension of cool, cold, calm common sense.
Look, as all HGVs are limited to a maximum of 56mph isn’t it stupid for other road users to be stuck behind an artificially-created moving roadblock that appears without warning when the driver of one HGV travelling at 56mph has – for some unfathomable reason – decided to attempt to overtake another HGV also travelling at 56mph.
The word ‘overtake’ gives the wrong idea of the manoeuvre that occurs when this happens. ‘Wear the other lorry driver in to the ground through a state of inflicted boredom’ would be a much more accurate, but less snappy description.
The implementation of this new rule (together with other changes in this piece of legislation as set out below) will ensure that all lanes of the motorway are used with common sense and to maximum efficiency.
2. No towing vehicle is allowed to exceed 56mph.
As the speed limit for towing vehicles is currently 60mph it’s a further extension of logic to reduce that speed by 4mph to enable towed vehicles to fit in with other slow-moving traffic. This change goes hand-in-hand with the next piece of new legislation.
3. All towing vehicles will be confined to the left-hand lane (as per HGVs).
Time to put towing and towed vehicles where they belong in terms of traffic flow – i.e. not in the overtaking lanes!
4. All towed vehicles (caravans, trailers, horseboxes etc) will be subject to MOT inspection and testing.
All aspects of the towed vehicle, including its braking systems and towing linkages, will be thoroughly checked.
5. The towing vehicle will have its headlight adjustments checked with the towed vehicle attached and then checked again with the towed vehicle unattached. If the driver/registered keeper of the towing vehicle is not able to demonstrate they are able to adjust the lights correctly for both types of driving, the towing vehicle will be deemed to have failed its MOT inspection.
Badly adjusted, blinding or ineffective headlights become things of the past through this change.
6. All towing vehicles will be subject to periodic inspection that will include ensuring headlight adjustments can be made.
Just enforcing the law, dude.
B.
Sounds like good sense to me. It also sounds like you’re spending a lot of time on the road – probably stuck behind slow moving lorries – devising these new rules!
Mya x
Hiya Mya (poet, know it).
You’re right; I think the whole ‘spending a lot of time on the road’ is an issue, yes.
🙂
But I do some of my best thinking while I’m sitting behind the wheel and I keep my trusty digital vocorder handy to capture random thoughts (random thoughts being pretty much what goes on in my head most of the time, lol!).