Can you be recognised on the road ?????

kiwijims · Guru

RE: Can you be recognised on the road ?????

jules47 · The Happy Helper

KJ - personally I wouldn't have been travelling in thick fog - I would have been off the road quick smart. That was probably the truckies thoughts as well - remember he is higher up than you, and can possibly see a lot more than you can in a car or even 4wd.

kiwijims · Guru

jules47 wrote:
KJ - personally I wouldn't have been travelling in thick fog - I would have been off the road quick smart. That was probably the truckies thoughts as well - remember he is higher up than you, and can possibly see a lot more than you can in a car or even 4wd.

Hi jules47, I don't know if you have ever been on the Nullarbor and struck the fog that can suddenly appear out of no where,

It's uncanny and damned frightening, It can appear in a couple of seconds and be as thick as pea soup, That's what happened to us,

We were driving a Motor home at the time, so we were almost the same height as a truck, it made no difference the fog blanket started just West of Eucla and lasted for quiet a few km's ,it also rose to about 100m in height, so no-one couldn't be high enough to see over the top of it,

This part of the highway is well built up, being also used as a landing strip for the Flying Doctor, apart from parking on the space provided for the plane turn around point,( which was on the opposite of the road )

The rest of the highway has such an embankment, I dare not try to drive off in case I overturned, so we were stuck on the highway, plus If I did stop there was a very good chance we could have been rear-ended.

I did give this truckie a call on the C.B. after he flew past, I don't know what he was on but he had to think when I asked where he came from, when he finally answered saying it was Melbourne, he still couldn't tell me when he had left there, he thought it was yesterday may-be !!!

K.J.

HunnyBunny · Senior Member

I'm easily recognizable........if you can get near me!! biggrin

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Sorrykiwijims wrote:
jules47 wrote:
KJ - personally I wouldn't have been travelling in thick fog - I would have been off the road quick smart. That was probably the truckies thoughts as well - remember he is higher up than you, and can possibly see a lot more than you can in a car or even 4wd.

Hi jules47, I don't know if you have ever been on the Nullarbor and struck the fog that can suddenly appear out of no where,
It's uncanny and damned frightening, It can appear in a couple of seconds and be as thick as pea soup, That's what happened to us,
We were driving a Motor home at the time, so we were almost the same height as a truck, it made no difference the fog blanket started just West of Eucla and lasted for quiet a few km's ,it also rose to about 100m in height, so no-one couldn't be high enough to see over the top of it,
This part of the highway is well built up, being also used as a landing strip for the Flying Doctor, apart from parking on the space provided for the plane turn around point,( which was on the opposite of the road )
The rest of the highway has such an embankment, I dare not try to drive off in case I overturned, so we were stuck on the highway, plus If I did stop there was a very good chance we could have been rear-ended.
I did give this truckie a call on the C.B. after he flew past, I don't know what he was on but he had to think when I asked where he came from, when he finally answered saying it was Melbourne, he still couldn't tell me when he had left there, he thought it was yesterday may-be !!!
K.J.

Sorry KJ - no offense intended, and no haven't struck that fog - yet - had rain the whole way over in 2005 though - trucks flying past, spraying water all over the windscreen, wipers already working hard - other trips across have been just magic!