Bugger I’ve blown a perimeter fairy light bulb on me trailer and sods law I’ve run out of this particular rarely used bulb.
I shall now be giving myself 50 lashes and remove the one the other side so it don’t look obvious.
Just goes to show even the best of us can drop a clanger or two.
In fact I will keep the one I remove as a spare and hope to exchange this trailer with an EE colleague who are notorious for poor trailer upkeep.
Dipper_Dave:
Bugger I’ve blown a perimeter fairy light bulb on me trailer and sods law I’ve run out of this particular rarely used bulb.I shall now be giving myself 50 lashes and remove the one the other side so it don’t look obvious.
Just goes to show even the best of us can drop a clanger or two.
Tut Tut driver, I think its VOR for you sunny jim.
And take another 50 lashes, for the now missing bulb on the other side 
Reckon I’ll get away with it using my standard acting daft technique which gets me out of and into many sticky situations.
el_presidente:
Winseer:
bestbooties:
If they pulled all the cars in with a [zb] headlight bulb out, the car park would be full!If all cars with one bulb completely out (totally dark) were pulled… We’d have strong evidence that there are still some police LEFT. Trying to find one is like trying to find a pub without steel curtains on it these days.
You never see any police around these parts - unless anyone is daft enough to start ranting at a foreigner. If that same foreigner is in the process of attacking YOU - no show.
The old joke about “Telling the switchboard that if the police are not here in 5 minutes, I’ll be forced to defend myself with this shotgun” works - but only works once.
Where are the VOSA range rovers moving on singleton foreign artics parked for the night under motorway bridges?
I was a bobby until quite recently - worked a pretty rural beat but with a few major routes, so when not wrestling with drunk squaddies or separating warring spouses, I spent plenty of time on ‘traffic process’. I got the usual ‘haven’t you any burglars to catch’ or ‘making money for the council again officer’ comments…
But my motivation was always road safety (as well as a sniff for booze; drugs; stolen items)…Trouble is, these days the bobbies are so overworked with other work, that they rarely have a chance to do traffic stuff (and so loose the knowledge) and therefore never get out to be proactive like this. I only managed it at the cost my PDR or other paperwork.
Roads policing rarely stray far from the motorways as that is their ‘priority’… hence, too many sheds and boy racers on the roads.
So if you’re not police anymore what are you doing now,must be cushy giving up an easy job like that,cheers Bob.
We are not allowed to changed headlight bulbs company policy b
Born Idle:
My first thought is why the 20 minute deadline?
Maybe the driver failed the attitude test!
muckles:
Winseer:
Where are the VOSA range rovers moving on singleton foreign artics parked for the night under motorway bridges?Were there ever such a thing as VOSA Range Rovers?
I have seen the foreign drivers moved on sometimes by the Police and sometimes by HATO’s, but they don’t seem to have regular patrols anymore, first they took traffic officers off patrolling the roads and replaced them with HATO’s saying they would do the mundane patrolling and leave the Traffic Police to respond to emergency calls, they now seem to have taken the HATO’s off patrols and now they deal with call outs.
VOSA (or DVSA as they are now) drive Ford Galaxys)
We drive Shoguns and Discos.
Oh and we still patrol as normal, we park on observation platforms and overbridges on our patrol routes to respond to jobs as they come in.
BossHogg:
Oh and we still patrol as normal, we park on observation platforms and overbridges on our patrol routes to respond to jobs as they come in.
I wouldn’t call that patrolling, more parked somewhere waiting for a job, not blaming you guys for the policy though.
Would HATO’s have the power to move on trucks parked for rest periods on the hard shoulder?
Dipper_Dave:
That’s an act 
sorry didn’t realise
muckles:
BossHogg:
Oh and we still patrol as normal, we park on observation platforms and overbridges on our patrol routes to respond to jobs as they come in.I wouldn’t call that patrolling, more parked somewhere waiting for a job, not blaming you guys for the policy though.
Would HATO’s have the power to move on trucks parked for rest periods on the hard shoulder?
We can ask them to move, sometimes they will, if they get abusive, I simply request the police to deal with them. We do still patrol, we drive from the station to an overbridge, park there for 30 minutes, then move to an observation platform for 30 minutes and so on, our 63 plate Disco has 105,000 miles on it, so it shows that we still go out, our cars do 50-60,000 miles a year.
