National drive your tractor to work day!

[Daniel]

It seems they forgot to advertise it but today I passed 8 tractors on the way to work and usually I pass none :mark: Another guy who was coming to work on a totally different route also met a lot of tractors on the way too :mark:

Congratulations for making a lot of people 10 minutes late for work! :rolleyes:

[Brown, Jon Brow]

The worst thing is when you get two tractors close behind each other which makes it nearly impossible to pass, especially when you only have 60 bhp to play with.

[Mark]

Only 60bhp? Rubbish!

It's surprising what you can do with little power tho, if you are prepared to stir the gearbox furiously :p

[Daniel]

The worst thing is when you get two tractors close behind each other which makes it nearly impossible to pass, especially when you only have 60 bhp to play with.
Bah! I've got 90bhp, a turbo and a fair bit of torque :p It's the fact that they were all on the motorway and people somehow couldn't manage to overtake them even though they were only doing about 30 mph at most. Two lane motorway. Should be easy to overtake a tractor doing 30mph......

[Iain]

Couldn't have been a motorway. ;)

[Mark]

That's what I was thinking, as far as I know tractors are not permitted on motorways. Plus I don't know of any two lane motorways between where Daniel lives and where he works.

Maybe it was all a dream? :p

[Daniel]

Is it an expressway? :p

[Brown, Jon Brow]

A dual carriageway ? :erm:

[Daniel]

Turns out it's just a dual carriageway. Meh. Motorway it is to me :p In Australia we just have roads, Freeways and Highways :p

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Welcome to civilisation :p

[Daniel]

Not really. Welcome to overcomplicated road classification :p On Freeways you can't drive tractors, bikes or walk :) Basically the only difference is you have to join at a sliproad junction on a freeway and there aren't traffic lights. Sure the A55 isn't a true "freeway" as there are one or two places where you can join but not be going on a sliproad but it's as good as :) Thing is the A55 is more of a "freeway" than a "highway" :) Tractors shouldn't be allowed :p

[Brown, Jon Brow]

So whats a Highway?

What stops you from overtaking Tractors on a road like this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/153914_9b3f08bb.jpg

[Mark]

Not really. Welcome to overcomplicated road classification :p On Freeways you can't drive tractors, bikes or walk :) Basically the only difference is you have to join at a sliproad junction on a freeway and there aren't traffic lights. Sure the A55 isn't a true "freeway" as there are one or two places where you can join but not be going on a sliproad but it's as good as :) Thing is the A55 is more of a "freeway" than a "highway" :) Tractors shouldn't be allowed :p

It was constructed as a special road (legal term for motorway!) but for various reasons, it was not designated as such.

Many roads these days are constructed as dual rather than motorway as if you say 'motorway' you get ten times the amount of grief from anti-roads protestors. The A55 is sometimes referred to as a 'secret motorway'

[Daniel]

It's not me. It's the other morons on the road freaking out because the tractor's not doing 60 or 70 :)

[Daniel]

It was constructed as a special road (legal term for motorway!) but for various reasons, it was not designated as such.

Many roads these days are constructed as dual rather than motorway as if you say 'motorway' you get ten times the amount of grief from anti-roads protestors. The A55 is sometimes referred to as a 'secret motorway'
Fair enough. The only thing I know of Anti-road protestors is the big brake fluid mark on the paint on the back of Caroline's Subaru. So they suck :p

One could forgive me for calling it a motorway. Although for some reason it does have two roundabouts about 15 or 20 mile the other which is like wtf? material :mark:

[Daniel]

So whats a Highway?

What stops you from overtaking Tractors on a road like this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/153914_9b3f08bb.jpg

Basically a highway is a road where you can go fast and have headon collisions with people because there isn't always a central reservation :) In cities when there is a "highway" it's just like a motorway but with traffic lights. Out of the cities you are allowed to have head on collisions and go fast and join wherever you want to :)

Freeways are basically exactly the same as motorways here. No traffic lights, can only leave at sliproads and armco both sides usually :)

[Iain]

It was constructed as a special road (legal term for motorway!) but for various reasons, it was not designated as such.

Many roads these days are constructed as dual rather than motorway as if you say 'motorway' you get ten times the amount of grief from anti-roads protestors. The A55 is sometimes referred to as a 'secret motorway'

Ooh now you're talking serious SABREisti language there. ;)

To complicate matters, I know of a dual carriageway which is known as an Expressway.

Daniel, a good example of a highway in the UK is the A38 (M?) going onto Birmingham from the M6. It has no central reservations at points, as the number of lanes can be changed to accommodate more traffic at rush hour.

[Mark]

Several roads are known as expressways, (Iain: are you referring to Haddington to Dunbar?) but this is bascially a PR term and has no legal status.

[Daniel]

Several roads are known as expressways, (Iain: are you referring to Haddington to Dunbar?) but this is bascially a PR term and has no legal status.
Can we not just get back to complaining about tractors making people late for work thanks? :p

[Iain]

No, I was talking about the East Kilbride Expressway, Mark. :) It's got banked turns and everything. :D But they slapped a 60 limit on it. :down:

[Daniel]

No, I was talking about the East Kilbride Expressway, Mark. :) It's got banked turns and everything. :D But they slapped a 60 limit on it. :down:
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/55.shtml

Bloody Sabre people :p

A55: Chester - Holyhead (North Wales Expressway)

[Dave B]

Daniel, a good example of a highway in the UK is the A38 (M?) going onto Birmingham from the M6. It has no central reservations at points, as the number of lanes can be changed to accommodate more traffic at rush hour.
I remember the first time I drove on that and noticed a nice empty lane on the outside.... :eek:

[Daniel]

I remember the first time I drove on that and noticed a nice empty lane on the outside.... :eek:
Not as bad as me driving down to Warwick and noticing a nice empty lane on the left hand side of the road :uhoh:

[Mark]

The A38(M) doesn't really have any special status apart from it being a single carriageway motorway :s

'Highway' in the UK actually means all roads. But there are only two main categories for motorised vechile use, All Purpose roads and Motorways, and that's pretty much it.

[Drew]

Ooh now you're talking serious SABREisti language there. ;)

To complicate matters, I know of a dual carriageway which is known as an Expressway.

Daniel, a good example of a highway in the UK is the A38 (M?) going onto Birmingham from the M6. It has no central reservations at points, as the number of lanes can be changed to accommodate more traffic at rush hour.

There are 2 A38s?! There's one in Devon that turns into the M5. Strange :s

[Iain]

It's the same road Drew. :) http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/38.shtml

[Drew]

Ah I see, well confusion over.

[JaysonM]

I'm not crazy to drive my tractor to work!