It’s our duty as Drivers to find an alternative route when the road ahead is shut or full of stationary traffic.
Why wouldn’t you?
Now I’m annoyed 
I thought about the 34, but assumed that by the time I’d got there (about one o’clock) it would be just as bad. Bugger…
fodentanker:
It’s our duty as Drivers to find an alternative route when the road ahead is shut or full of stationary traffic.Why wouldn’t you?
Because SOME drivers are just that drivers. Its not like times gone past when a road was shut and you had NO diversion signs out you were on your own but with the way things are today you could go from A 2 B without a problem but now they have moved everything on to the Motorway and made many other routes a no no by making them 7.5t limits etc … Even the HA don’t have a clue anymore …Diverting traffic from the M5sth off at 11a diverting to Swindon to re join at the m4 jn 15 then back to Bristol FFs 
all it takes is off at any j and use the A38 but as the A38 or parts of it is no longer a Trunk route they cant plan it 
fodentanker:
It’s our duty as Drivers to find an alternative route when the road ahead is shut or full of stationary traffic.Why wouldn’t you?
because unless you’re a decent distance away from the affected area, then the best / fastest way of getting to where you’re going, can be to sit in it
Generally speaking i don’t get off if i meet traffic unless i really know the area just because won’t know what hazards to expect like low bridges, 7.5ton limits etc so rather than struggle and risk a bollocking i take the easy route.
If it takes longer, i get paid more.
syramax:
got stuck on the A1 yesterday just on the turn off for the a57…
Which one?
stevieboy308:
fodentanker:
It’s our duty as Drivers to find an alternative route when the road ahead is shut or full of stationary traffic.Why wouldn’t you?
because unless you’re a decent distance away from the affected area, then the best / fastest way of getting to where you’re going, can be to sit in it
What happens if you hear a traffic report saying that the road you are on is going to be shut for next few hours?
A guy made me chuckle at Newark Tractor Show last November, he lived near Worksop and he knew that the A1 from Newark A46 was chocker due to an accident at Markham Moor but he still got on the A1 and sat in the queue for three hours instead of going via Ollerton etc. I asked him later why and his reply was that the Sat Nav had sent him that way so he assumed the road was clear, even though he knew the ‘old road’, so I assume that folk just get their mind set on the little thing on the dash and never look at a road atlas? 
Pete.
robroy:
Came up against the RTA between Southbound M6 j15/14 on thurs am. I sat in it between 16 and 15 for about 30 mins, saw it was still chokker at 15 so decided to come off and go down the A34 towards Stafford, and re-join the M6 at j14. Got to thinking that the 34 would be as bad as most other drivers would have the same idea,…wrong!.. sailed through, among all the local car drivers that obviously had local knowledge, and about only 6
I remember the same clear run through a few weeks back on the A50 Holmes Chapel/Knutsford road, avoiding another RTA on the notorious stretch between Sandbach and Lymm, again road relatively clear, where as years ago nearly all truck drivers would use it making the congestion as bad as the M6 RTA that they were trying to avoid.
I just wondered what had changed over the years, are today’s modern truck drivers ignorant of other routes apart from Motorways, or are they incapable of using their own initiative, because they have to follow set routes like robots, planned by their “Logistical route planning team”and sitting in the jam being on an hourly rate
, I’d like to think it was the last option but somehow I reckon sadly it is one of the others, but I aint bothered as it means that I can carry on using the clear alternative A and (Shock
funnily enough had the same experience going northbound around a block at 15 small amount of quing just off the 500 but after that plain sailing all the way to 14 . also had similar going manchester - sheffield queing on woodhead so strait across at the flouch first left over haidedge through holmfirth the A 635 to saddleworth then away you go loads of time saved and a much more scenic route
fodentanker:
stevieboy308:
fodentanker:
It’s our duty as Drivers to find an alternative route when the road ahead is shut or full of stationary traffic.Why wouldn’t you?
because unless you’re a decent distance away from the affected area, then the best / fastest way of getting to where you’re going, can be to sit in it
What happens if you hear a traffic report saying that the road you are on is going to be shut for next few hours?
What happens if you hear a traffic report saying that the road you are on is going to be shut for next 15 minutes?
you use your common sense and make an educated guess at what the best thing to do is, sometimes coming off would be as stupid as other times sitting in it. as i said earlier - there’s no right or wrong, there’s no option that works all the time, it’s the chance you take and only time will tell if it was the right one!!
robroy:
Came up against the RTA between Southbound M6 j15/14 on thurs am. I sat in it between 16 and 15 for about 30 mins, saw it was still chokker at 15 so decided to come off and go down the A34 towards Stafford, and re-join the M6 at j14. Got to thinking that the 34 would be as bad as most other drivers would have the same idea,…wrong!.. sailed through, among all the local car drivers that obviously had local knowledge, and about only 6
I remember the same clear run through a few weeks back on the A50 Holmes Chapel/Knutsford road, avoiding another RTA on the notorious stretch between Sandbach and Lymm, again road relatively clear, where as years ago nearly all truck drivers would use it making the congestion as bad as the M6 RTA that they were trying to avoid.
I just wondered what had changed over the years, are today’s modern truck drivers ignorant of other routes apart from Motorways, or are they incapable of using their own initiative, because they have to follow set routes like robots, planned by their “Logistical route planning team”
Why not simply have one of those girlie name-plates in your screen. Then everyone will see that Mr Oh-So Important Robroy is coming their way and they’ll be sure to move aside for you…
When say, BBC Oxford mention a diversion, I avoid the problem and ignore their diversion. It’ll be busy because everyone else’ll be using it. If the report says “open at 10am”, it really means 2pm.
Muckaway:
If the report says “open at 10am”, it really means 2pm.
Highways Agency app is worse. You always see things like, There are currently delays of 20 minutes on the M6 Southbound between J11 and J10 due to an accident closing the road between J10 and J9.
And you think to yourself, only a 20 minute delay on that section of road for a total closure
threewheelsonmywagon:
Why not simply have one of those girlie name-plates in your screen. Then everyone will see that Mr Oh-So Important Robroy is coming their way and they’ll be sure to move aside for you…
Wow! So much hostility 
A hit raw nerve with self realisation I think
Just for the record my girlie nameplate is already intact thanks, and obviously everybody already knows how “oh so important” I am anyway,… but you should have known that 
, so check up next time!! You really must do better
As well as my girlie nameplate, my girlie curtains are covering half my side window because not only am I “so important” I am also just too Goddam handsome to show my face to any unsuspecting female car drivers 
which would result in more jams for your type of driver (choose which option from my o/p which applies) to sit in.
that accident was only 3/4 of a mile passed 15 mate so you had sat in it for the majority of the time. i was heading north and the radio said delays of 15 minutes 50 minutes later i was passed it
I come down the M6 with another lad in front of me today and there was a accident over jnc 16 blocking it .matey sailed passed and joined the queue.i took off at holmes chapel and joined the a50. queued at least a mile before every set of traffic lights and when it come down to it he was 1/2 a mile behind me on the A500 when i joined it at the A34. so its swings and roundabouts really.
I chuckled to myself last Thursday night. M6 was shut northbound at Stafford so it was a detour up the A34 to Stoke then back on at 15. I followed an artic all the way up from 14 and back across the A500 to the motorway, only to see him forget to move over into the outside lane after the roundabout and promptly disappear down the slip road for the M6 southbound. 
I’ll have a tenner on him being called Marek.
trubster:
I tried to use my “initiative” the other week… epic fail, all the signs were saying 20 min delays M1 J23a-24.Jump off at 23a, run along side the M1 and the traffic was stationary, looked to my right and the M1 had cleared .
The detour added 20 mins and had I stayed on the M1, I would have been delayed about 5 minutes.
If M1 is stuffed,never,ever use this route, its always solid, esp on a Friday. Had similar the other week,when there was that fatal involving the pick-up north of Leicester Forest. i went straight down the A6 through Kegworth and Loughbourgh. Didnt get a single hold up.
robroy:
threewheelsonmywagon:
Why not simply have one of those girlie name-plates in your screen. Then everyone will see that Mr Oh-So Important Robroy is coming their way and they’ll be sure to move aside for you…
Just for the record my girlie nameplate is already intact thanks, and obviously
As well as my girlie nameplate, my girlie curtains are covering half my side window because not only am I “so important” I am also just too Goddam handsome to show my face to any unsuspecting female car drivers
Pmsl why sit in traffic when there is always a way around it, driver’s who say they are scared of meeting this or that, put your Sat nav away and buy a map. It’s amazing, it shows you things like bridges and narrow lanes, saying that though I tend to only use a Sat nav but I seem to manage.