MrFlibble:
SuperSmiley:
So far it’s the A37 Shepton Mallet to Bristol
That’s a piece of [zb]! The really narrow bits have got special electronic signs to hold back the downhill large vehicles to allow the uphill ones through first.
Really ? That’s news to me, I’ve never seen such a sign on that road.
The worst part is Farrington Gurney (heading towards Bristol), first dropping down and a tight LH bend into the village, then a fairly tight RH bend as you start to climb uphill but the roads only wide enough for 1 truck to pass (a car might just squeak past you depending on how far up you’ve got.)
mark croft:
the A373 from collumpton to honiton only ever done the M5 to honiton way and that was bloody tight with the midday shoppers thinking there trip out was far more important than me getting down the road.
Yeah, that’s a bit tight in places, the worst bit is climbing the hill through the trees and fog, quite a few milk wagons using that one.
I would have said my worst experiences have been roads in Cornwall.
Dropping down into St Austell on the B3274, you have to get around a blind RH hairpin into the town, and although YOU can see the cars coming up around the bend, they don’t use the shop windows as mirrors so they just have to slam on the brakes, then reverse back to get out of the way of the trailer. Had fun with a 40’ container there a few weeks ago.
Another good one was a road in the Forest of Dean near Lower Soudley. Had to take a wagon and drag to a private address with 24 T of roof tiles on. When I found the place (on the side of a valley) the house was about 100 feet higher up the valley than the road was, and they said " we’ve had lorries up here before" ! The “track” leading to the house was 2 dirt furrows surrounded by ferns on a 60 degree side to side slope. Needless to say, I made my excuses and took the load to the builder merchants in Coleford they had ordered through. I didn’t have my camera then, as that would have made a nice “Don’t do this !” photo.
Another Welsh one was after going to Abergavenny with an artic full of tiles. Missed the turn coming back out after tipping the load and headed off the wrong way up the A40. I realised quite soon and after looking at the map decided to take the A4077 to cut back down to the A465 and then onto the A40 again. Fine until I actually reached the turn off for the 4077 in Crickhowell. Narrow road through the town and slightly back on yourself as you turn left in to a fairly narrow junction. Just made it round (using the LH pavement for the trailer to get round) and lo and behold 100 yards later, a stone bridge over a river with a bend to the right halfway across. Just squeaked through that, and thought I would be alright from there on. It was a bit country laney, but no real issues until about quarter of a mile from the A465. Suddenly reached a bridge with a sign saying “Maximum Weight 7.5 T” ! Oh, bugger, just pretend you didn’t see it and hope. Fortunately it didn’t break 
Oh, I almost forgot - Anybody ever been to Decoy Ind. Est. in Newton Abbot ? You can’t get there except along a narrow lane with a humpback bridge, cars using the lane as a rat run, and the estate itself has so many parked cars along both sides, it’s pretty much drive in and “hopefully” reverse out. I was there in a TNT artic yesterday, and the “turning” area at one end of the road had cars and vans parked in the centre of it, with cars (half on the pavement) lining the edge of the road all the way around the outside. I had to wait 15 minutes for some idiot to move his van from the centre before I could get round without taking out a BMW and an Alfa with the unit. Great fun.
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