French Plod

[Craig]

British plod to patrol Calais motorway?!

Calais police lieutenant Patrick Vanderstraeten said: “Some British drivers treat French roads like a racetrack. They think as soon as they get abroad the law doesn’t apply to them.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1610670.ece

I know it's a crap source (sorry, it was emailed to me) but thought I'd post it here.

I wonder if they decided on this after a certain week in June?

[kelvin88]

Aint no British drivers i get of the ferry with then. They all seem to fanny about at thirty miles an hour with no idea what lane they should be in. I swear i have disspared so much in the past that i have eaten my own steering wheel waiting for someone to decide if he is going to Dunkerque or not, straddling the white line and driving at walking pace while his missus barks directions from the passenger seat.


And, while i'm at it, whats this sudden craze of driving onto ferrys with your hazzard lights on? Who started that?

[Craig]

Originally Posted by kelvin88

And, while i'm at it, whats this sudden craze of driving onto ferrys with your hazzard lights on? Who started that?

It's often on the boarding pass thingy you hang on your mirror that you must board the ferry with hazards on rather than headlights. Presumably so you don't blind the hell out of the guys in hi-vi vests who wave their arms around a lot as you drive on... think you're only supposed to do it when loading at night tho...

[mattt]

you've gotta love the comments at the bottom of the page

[bella]

not any more, they just say turn your headlights off sometimes on ferries and definitely on the tunnel. norfolkline certainly don't ask for hazards. the tunnel is more to do with setting off fire detectors.

regarding patrolling the french motorways - ok, but only if they change the motorways to our standards of speed limits. they drop the limit from 130kmh to 110kmh for no reason other than to get you at the speed camera situated 200m past the 110kmh sign.

[Adam43]

A very important job, they must be proud.

[GORDON STREETER]

Well as for speed limits the writing is on the wall.
At the moment the max speed on motorways in Spain is 120kph and it looks like its going to drop to 80. This is all to do with energy saving including maximum and minimum temperatures in public buildings for winter and summer.
We're all doomed !!!!!