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Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Avoid Guildford!
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Smiffy

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Monkeybusiness said:
Good advice - not sure what the wagon has to do with it though!
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A lorry hit a listed building on the main road into Guildford from the south about a month ago. The road has been closed since. Guildford is sh*t for traffic at the best of times. I had a first aid course there last week and lt took me half an hour to get from the outskirts of the town to the centre every day. (It would have been significantly quicker to walk but parking is awful. And it was 19 quid a day to park
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Smiffy said:
A lorry hit a listed building on the main road into Guildford from the south about a month ago. The road has been closed since. Guildford is sh*t for traffic at the best of times. I had a first aid course there last week and lt took me half an hour to get from the outskirts of the town to the centre every day. (It would have been significantly quicker to walk but parking is awful. And it was 19 quid a day to park
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Took me 40 mins to get to the A3 from the industrial estate a few months back....I could see it the whole time ! 😂

And dont get me started on the M25 j10 😑

Just glad I dont live there
 
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Monkeybusiness

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I’ve been working in Leeds a bit recently - it’s less than 100 miles door-to-door. 1hr 45mins towing the 3 tonner on Tuesday morning was my record (I left home at 4am, needed to meet someone on site at 7.30 and couldn’t be late - I took my time, didn’t hammer it). Every other day I have left at a ‘normal’ time (5.30-6.30am) and it has taken up to 4 hours some mornings… Our road network is choked up well beyond capacity, and there is no alternative sadly.
 
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Smiffy

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Lancs Lad said:
Took me 40 mins to get to the A3 from the industrial estate a few months back....I could see it the whole time ! 😂

And dont get me started on the M25 j10 😑

Just glad I dont live there
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I work near Crawley 19miles away or 30mins. But live near Guildford 11miles away or 55mims.
Fortunately everyone from town I live in commutes to Guildford so the roads to Crawley are pretty quite. I rarely get stuck in traffic tbh. I use to travel to Woking and inside the M25 a lot and am quite happy not to do it it again. It's a pretty dire part of the country to live in. Unfortunately I don't think the rest of the country is far behind any more. Our rock has far to many inhabitants.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Hereford can be horrendous .... can take two hours to do a couple of miles from the outskirts on the 465 to t'other side and zero alternatives (river to cross and only a couple of bridges to choose from ) :cry: it's dire at peak times and the rest of the time ain't great - full stop :mad:
 
sfrs4

sfrs4

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Thank F live in a nice rural town of mid/north of the UK. Big towns and city's are just abhorrent, if it's not a multitude of pedestrianised areas, tram/bus routes and 1way streets it's all the traffic light cameras, zone/route cameras etc set to catch you making a mistake, because last month that street was 1 way the other way, there wasn't a bus route on the other road you are going to use and where the hell did all these people come from that are swearing at me. As a 50 year old bloke I can remember the heady days of driving at a "decent" speed and only having to worry about a traffic officer on the motorway in marked cars or the odd bobby in a panda car, being able to drive from Doncaster area to Liverpool in just over 2hrs at most, on a good day less than 2hrs, now if your lucky that's a 3hr journey. I'm off to Oulton Park Circuit this weekend and normally really enjoy a good drive out, but we'll see what the traffic is like.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
sfrs4 said:
Thank F live in a nice rural town of mid/north of the UK. Big towns and city's are just abhorrent, if it's not a multitude of pedestrianised areas, tram/bus routes and 1way streets it's all the traffic light cameras, zone/route cameras etc set to catch you making a mistake, because last month that street was 1 way the other way, there wasn't a bus route on the other road you are going to use and where the hell did all these people come from that are swearing at me. As a 50 year old bloke I can remember the heady days of driving at a "decent" speed and only having to worry about a traffic officer on the motorway in marked cars or the odd bobby in a panda car, being able to drive from Doncaster area to Liverpool in just over 2hrs at most, on a good day less than 2hrs, now if your lucky that's a 3hr journey. I'm off to Oulton Park Circuit this weekend and normally really enjoy a good drive out, but we'll see what the traffic is like.
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my old man used to say that:- " all these new speed cameras just aren't cricket - you get nicked by a 'jam sandwich' you deserve it, for not being observant enough " - that's coming from a 30 year traffic cop
oh for the days when you could just go for it, without worrying about WTF the next camera was / is:cry::mad:
I also think the standard of driving has deteriorated dramatically in the last 20-ish years
 
doobin

doobin

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Monkeybusiness said:
I’ve been working in Leeds a bit recently - it’s less than 100 miles door-to-door. 1hr 45mins towing the 3 tonner on Tuesday morning was my record (I left home at 4am, needed to meet someone on site at 7.30 and couldn’t be late - I took my time, didn’t hammer it). Every other day I have left at a ‘normal’ time (5.30-6.30am) and it has taken up to 4 hours some mornings… Our road network is choked up well beyond capacity, and there is no alternative sadly.
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Not a dig at you personally mate as I know you do what you need to do to make money to provide.

But there's no way that kind of thing is sustainable, on any level. Personally, environmentally, etc. Up at 05:30 to lug a three tonner four hours to site? There's really not a team closer that could have done it?

It's crazy. Makes me realise how lucky I am to stay busy ten miles from home.
 
Giles

Giles

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Monkeybusiness said:
I’ve been working in Leeds a bit recently - it’s less than 100 miles door-to-door. 1hr 45mins towing the 3 tonner on Tuesday morning was my record (I left home at 4am, needed to meet someone on site at 7.30 and couldn’t be late - I took my time, didn’t hammer it). Every other day I have left at a ‘normal’ time (5.30-6.30am) and it has taken up to 4 hours some mornings… Our road network is choked up well beyond capacity, and there is no alternative sadly.
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I worked in Leeds for 2-3 years technically not to bad from Sheffield straight on m1, was when rob and Ollie (rip) where on that section used to take 1.30-2 hours for 40 miles we started working 6-2 to miss the traffic
 
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Monkeybusiness

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doobin said:
Not a dig at you personally mate as I know you do what you need to do to make money to provide.

But there's no way that kind of thing is sustainable, on any level. Personally, environmentally, etc. Up at 05:30 to lug a three tonner four hours to site? There's really not a team closer that could have done it?

It's crazy. Makes me realise how lucky I am to stay busy ten miles from home.
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You are absolutely correct - I wouldn’t normally drag a 3 tonner that far, we did the bulk of that particular job with the 6 tonner (which obviously stayed on site for the duration of the works). This was just for a bit of snagging, and clearing up around the chipper.
I can spend weeks on end working nice and locally, but have a couple of very good customers who have property nationally. I have a few very good subbies but have been let down by others on a couple of occasions so try to use my own lads where possible - working away is toss though, we all hate it.
 
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