orys:
Or Istanbul.
4 lanes motorway, one big traffic jam, seven cars are going side by side, between them pedestrian (half of them are beggars and the other half try to sell you some crap), scooters, motorbikes, motorcarts etc., most of them going wrong way…That was an experience!
Sounds just like London then 
I love London, I love everything about it. It’s the greatest city in the world and I come here for my days off as often as I can!
did a dagenham the other day, followed the satnav off the a13 all looks good i’m on a big road and i’m only a mile from the tip, ah someones put some concrete barriers in the road and a sign about 4ft infront of them “7ft max width ahead” great, back up and turn myself around, least i know where i want to be, follow my nose down what looks the likely alternative, ah a railway crossing thats been permanently clossed, ok we’ll do the reverse and turn round thing again, stopped to ask a driver what the crack was? you can’t get this way mate they’ve blocked everything off to stop wagons coming through, you need to go back to the a13 and take the next turn off! theres nothing wrong with london except the idiots who some how find their way onto the local councils who are quite happy to block good roads to hgv’s but just can’t be bothered to put any signs up!
as for the attitude, it dosn’t bother me at all, think everyone learns in time to take as much road as you can and let em peep their horns, they don’t give a monkeys about you, so you just adopt the same attitude.
I hate the place with a passion the people are arrogant it should be towed out in the atlantic and used for nuke practice
tilerman:
I hate the place with a passion the people are arrogant it should be towed out in the atlantic and used for nuke practice
Good idea but the radioactive fall out would get blown back here in that case.Maybe tow it to the Pacific and then blow the place up would be ok if it did’nt sink going round cape horn first that is
LONDON…the greatest city in the world…the best women in the world…with the greatest of looks…figures etc…and also the greatest drivers in the world…if you can drive in London…you can drive anywhere in the world…i do and i have…
newmercman:
Carryfast:
newmercman:
The place is full of immigrants with no idea how to drive, mums in 4x4s with no idea how to drive, every other kind of ■■■■■■ in a car with no idea how to drive I actually enjoy running through the middle of London, like ROG, in my case especially at rush hour, the crumpet is worth sitting in trafficAs any bus driver knows it’s actually better for the crumpet before rush hour going by the rule that they look better as teenagers than 30 something career women do
I’m going through a ■■■■ phase at the moment, so I’ll stick with rush hour
As they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder so I’ll stick with 3-4 o clock in the afternoon and,with a few exceptions, the ones around the rest of the country look better anyway 
which saves the congestion charge and getting done for all the other rules and regs which the Londoners can throw at us.
truckyboy:
LONDON…the greatest city in the world…the best women in the world…with the greatest of looks…figures etc…and also the greatest drivers in the world…if you can drive in London…you can drive anywhere in the world…i do and i have…
Sounds like you’ve never been allowed out of the zb place in that case probably because it takes all day to do it with those traffic jams Maybe you’re a cabby
Alan…:
London is great fun. Used to run around the city with a large long wheelbased 7.5t box carrying bubblewrap which was a bit of a good way to learn. although that was at least 15 years ago.Recently have been going into peckham and tulse hill on a regular basis. I just get inside the 25 then slow down and chill out. If you cruise at 20-25 and use all available lanes. never indicate unless you really need to. (keeps the locals on their toes) Enjoy the wondrous sights. I also use the blowing a kiss system mentioned earlier.
As said before… Go in with the right mind set and dont give a monkeys about “going in” and it can to be fun.
Someone mentioned trying to get a break in whilst inside the 25. Pull up somewhere convenient, preferably where there is room to allow traffic to pass. Put hazard lights on. lift bonnet / front grill, if its a dry day chuck a couple of mugs of water or liquid underneath. get in the Passenger seat or get on the bunk and relax for 45.
Inform police officer that help should arrive within the next half hour or so. And see if you can make it onto Sally Traffic.
Works everytime unless they ask you to try and fire her up hehehe
truckyboy:
LONDON…the greatest city in the world…the best women in the world…with the greatest of looks…figures etc…and also the greatest drivers in the world…if you can drive in London…you can drive anywhere in the world…i do and i have…
!00% agree and everyone elses opinion is bollox aS THEY AREN’T FROM THE SMOKE BUT DRIVING IN sOUTH lONDON wHAT’S THAT ALL ABOUT? 
dessy:
truckyboy:
LONDON…the greatest city in the world…the best women in the world…with the greatest of looks…figures etc…and also the greatest drivers in the world…if you can drive in London…you can drive anywhere in the world…i do and i have…!00% agree and everyone elses opinion is bollox aS THEY AREN’T FROM THE SMOKE BUT DRIVING IN sOUTH lONDON wHAT’S THAT ALL ABOUT?
Not from the smoke in Surrey but close enough to the zb place to know that they all think that everyone else’s opinion is bollox even when they take their ‘smoke’/bs with them everywhere they go.
waddy640:
truckerjon:
Regularly have 5 or 6 drops in London on a double decker, hate london with a vengance! but, it’s part of the job.You don’t mention taking breaks whilst within M25, that is another problem to overcome.
But the M25 does’nt form the London border and to some of us within it it’s an insult to call it London. There’s plenty of places within the M25 where you would’nt be subject to London’s bs rules and regs.
is park lane good enough for you nobody knows its 40mph there i enjoy racing the bendy busses and tri axle national express coaches through the bends and round marble arch while being cut up by a cabbie. its the nearest thing you can get on the road to bike racing. a real buzz
joedwyer1:
is park lane good enough for you nobody knows its 40mph there i enjoy racing the bendy busses and tri axle national express coaches through the bends and round marble arch while being cut up by a cabbie. its the nearest thing you can get on the road to bike racing. a real buzz
Until you have a ‘racing incident’ and hit one of those cabbies then you’ll see how those Londoners all stick together when they need a witness
all you need for driving in London is patience and a good map
the suburbs are easy its the back streets in the city that really need skill
london can be quite fun to drive around, though the traffic wardens are {zb}s one tried to give me 3 parking tickets when on a 45, cant remember where i was either somewhere in east london.
also had to take a 9 hour break in a sidestreet just off oxford street on my first visit to london lol.
nice 240 quid ticket lol
gogzy:
london can be quite fun to drive around, though the traffic wardens are {zb}s one tried to give me 3 parking tickets when on a 45, cant remember where i was either somewhere in east london.also had to take a 9 hour break in a sidestreet just off oxford street on my first visit to london lol.
nice 240 quid ticket lol
I was down in london a few month ago and i seen a lorry outside a theatre loading stages etc , a traffic warden was putting on another ticket, there was already about 4 on it
Seen the driver and told him about the traffic warden he said ‘’ i dont give a ■■■■ mate ive got about 100 tickets in the cab’’
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merc0447:
gogzy:
london can be quite fun to drive around, though the traffic wardens are {zb}s one tried to give me 3 parking tickets when on a 45, cant remember where i was either somewhere in east london.also had to take a 9 hour break in a sidestreet just off oxford street on my first visit to london lol.
nice 240 quid ticket lolI was down in london a few month ago and i seen a lorry outside a theatre loading stages etc , a traffic warden was putting on another ticket, there was already about 4 on it
Seen the driver and told him about the traffic warden he said ‘’ i dont give a [zb] mate ive got about 100 tickets in the cab’’
lol, well the one from the side street near oxford st the company told me to get there that night and since i only had about 5 mins driving time left there wasnt any point in going anywhere. company told me before i left id get a ticket and they would pay for it. when i got the ticket i was awake and was chatting to another driver and he then told me i was getting a ticket, just turned around looked at traffic warden and went “companys paying it”
bout a week later i get a letter from said company saying that all drivers are to pay their own tickets and that the company doesnt pay them, sent a stern letter back n aming the people who said that the company would pay for it, didnt hear anything back lol
also i thought that you couldnt get another parking ticket if you still had one on display from that day?
what i do is run around with the plastic wallet that the pcn comes in under my wiper with a blank folded up bit of paper in so its looks like ive already got one.
I didn’t realise there were so many big girls blouses on here. “I’m so sowwy boss, I weely hate London… pleeze don’t send me there.”
