Lorries drivers on the Milber back road

Coach drivers as well!!!

So I take it you used the back road to get home from work Aussie and got stuck in it for 40 minutes. That’s the problem sometimes with rat runs I’m afraid and yes those Lorries and even coaches are so often to blame.

But car drivers can be just as much to blame sometimes in narrow lanes that have a few passing places along them. You always get the one driver who can see the car ahead has pulled into a passing place and instead of just staying stopped in the passing place he or she is in, they just have to carry on and pull up behind the other car.

This then blocks the lane for the car trying to pass the other way and very soon cars pull up in both directions blocking the whole lane either way for some distance. I often just put it down to people who are not used to driving on lanes and let’s be honest; we have so many very narrow ones here in Devon.

Too many lorry drivers rely on sat navs and almost daily one will get stuck in some lane or village or damage buildings and you wonder sometimes if they remember just what they are driving.

Maybe we can forgive all the foreign lorry drivers we have on our roads these days, but you would have thought most English drivers would know turning into a lane is likely to lead to a situation where they end up getting stuck.

As you say, if they used the correct software the chances of them ending up on narrow lanes would be greatly reduced, but I’m sure there will still be some circumstances, when the sat nav sends them down some lane or other.

Not a lover of sat navs myself and anyway as I have been a driver on and off for so many years now, I know my way around the whole of the Southwest of England and most of South Wales.

I do have sat nav on my phone and below is the tale of when I used it for fun on a recent day out with Carol


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We left home around 10am and I decided to use the sat nav on my HTC Desire phone for a bit of fun and what fun that turned out in the end and It sure took us on roads (if they could be called roads) I would never have known about or chosen to drive on. It was all going so well and we went over the Tamar Bridge and turned off right at the roundabout after the bridge that takes you to St Mellion.

Then the silly thing told me to take a right turn one hundred yards short of a roundabout and then the fun really began. The lane was so narrow and one downhill left hand bend was so tight and had such a camber on it I don’t know how I got the car around it. Worse was to come as the road them was full of hundreds of pheasants and Carol wanted to get out and walk in front of the car to ensure I did not run any over, bless her

But give the thing its due, we stuck to the instructions it was giving us and sure enough it took us there only we decided not to leave after our day at Cotehele the way we had come.

Yes indeed Aussie, I was just giving my views on the problems we have with so many lanes in Devon and drivers who don't know how to drive on them, or if they should in the first place ;D