Quote: Randa france wrote in post #12

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We tried to keep in line with the lorries in all countries as it is safer to drive between them.

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I don't have your experience of towing on continental roads, but sitting between trucks on our motorways is the very last place I'd want to be.

There's no disrespect intended to truck drivers generally, but a few of them seem to be doing their level best to give the rest of them a bad reputation.

If I had a fiver for every time I've seen a truck slipstreaming another with less than two car lengths between them at 65mph, I could probably afford to retire.

If the one in front had to hit the anchors hard - and suddenly - there's no way even a driver with Lewis Hamilton's lightning reactions would be able to avoid stuffing his cab into the tail of the artic in front. And if he's quick enough to swerve, heaven help the poor sod alongside at the time.

There's no way I'll deliberately make myself the jam in a Scania sandwich.

No way.

And while I accept that it's a sweeping statement - and one which is not well-researched - it seems to me that by far the biggest culprit in those horrendous accidents where somebody gets both their car and their life terminally shortened at the tail end of a queue, or the victim of not being able to make it to a refuge on a Smart Motorway, is a truck and its driver.

And while I also accept that some of these truck drivers are from Europe where the standards of HGV driving may not be as rigorously assessed as they are here, that doesn't excuse a lack of attention, basic common sense and frequently a flagrant disregard for the safety of others.

Given the choice, I'll always give trucks as wide a berth as I possibly can and wherever I can, whether I'm towing or not.

Just my tuppence worth. No more than that.

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