Towing speed !

Drove home from Wiltshire today. going there last week and coming back today all the cars towing caravans were keeping to the speed limits on the A 303. M3 & M25 but vans towing plant trailers and a couple cars towing car transporter trailers were flying by me and I was doing a steady 60mph. Also on the way down, on the A 303,  there was Toyota HiLux with a large twin axle trailer that had jackknifed leaving the car in a ditch facing the wrong way on the carriage way. Police were in attendance talking to driver and his mate, they didn't look happy?

Personally the increase in fuel used at 70 from 60 is enough to put me off. I did witness the dangers of that speed a couple of years back though. We were doing about 60 on the M6 just North of Carlisle. A car towing a large Hobby passed at a speed well in excess of 60 and approached a line of lorries in front of us. At that point the driver lost it and it snaked from one side of the carriageway to the other narrowly missing the lorries.

I will give the driver his due, he was reckless but did manage to control the snake and eased into a gap in between the lorries before setting off again at high speed probably to the nearest services to change his trousers.

A couple of years ago we were driving solo on the autoroute in Spain towards France.  We were going at about 70mph.  A Belgium Berlingo towing a small caravan overtook us and developed quite a snake.  As he passed other vehicles ahead of us he continued to snake.  He was about 200 yds ahead of us when he snaked badly and his offside caravan tyre disintegrated.  Cars, lorries etc had to take evasive action to avoid him and the debris coming from his outfit.  Fortunately he  managed to come to a halt without hitting anything but left a great deal of debris on the road most of which was non rubber!  Ok his tyre may have been  faulty but his excessive speed was probably a major contributor to the incident.  A very shaken couple got out of the car.

Its illegal, but you can sometimes exceed 60 when overtaking!
better than the idiots that sit in the middle lanes at 50mph!

l used to tow at 55, gave that up for bad job for the reasons above, so now l either do 60 or come down to just over 50 depending on how we feel. 

Totally irrelevant I know, but MollysMummy, just love that bus !!

It's a belter isn't it, all I know is that it's a Leyland bus. It was parked up outside Burrs Country Park Caravan Club site a few years ago. I think it'd been used as a shuttle from the nearby East Lancs Railway station in Bury town centre. I just happend to be in the right place while walking molly the Mutt.

MM, I  think that is a Leyland Lowbridge.  The double decker version was called the Highbridge. 

Perhaps someone will correct me if I'm wrong. 

2nd Try.

Look what Mr Google gave me MM & Tinny-