On a mobile phone while driving a...

Hazel2705

tractor!

Needless to say I got out his way!!

Kilty_2

It's hardly moving quickly enough to be distracted :rotfl:

McKneff

I'm absolutely amazed at the amount of people who still use their mobile phones while driving anything when you can get
a kit for a lot less than a fine................

Kilty_2

True - the worst solution (a bluetooth earpiece) is only £7 or something in Tesco

Hazel2705

The big new tractors get a move on!

McKneff

Hazel2705 wrote: »

The big new tractors get a move on!

I followed one for about 10 miles the other day, doing 45 miles an hour, could I hell as get past him, gave up trying in the end but he was really shifting..............

mikey72

Tractor?
We get combine harvesters practically driving down both pavements (at once) while they're on the phone round here.

sharpy2010

McKneff wrote: »

I followed one for about 10 miles the other day, doing 45 miles an hour, could I hell as get past him, gave up trying in the end but he was really shifting..............

45 Miles per hour and you couldn't get past. Your car stuck in 1st gear was it?

Kilty_2

sharpy2010 wrote: »

45 Miles per hour and you couldn't get past. Your car stuck in 1st gear was it?

I can think of many roads where there wouldn't be enough time to pass something doing 45 that you'd easily pass if it was doing 25-30....

darich

Kilty wrote: »

I can think of many roads where there wouldn't be enough time to pass something doing 45 that you'd easily pass if it was doing 25-30....

Exactly right.

I saw a tractor on the M74 the other morning with a trailer albeit empty.
He was fair moving along!! The inside lane doing I rekcon somewhere around 50mph!!

Flyboy152

Kilty wrote: »

It's hardly moving quickly enough to be distracted :rotfl:

Speed, in this circumstance, is irrelevant.