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| DAZ110 Member Since: 06 Dec 2007 Location: East Sussex Posts: 2039   
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Long vehicle !!
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28th Sep 2015 10:38am |
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| need4speed Member Since: 23 Nov 2012 Location: Kilmarnock Posts: 746 |
Hahahahaha seriously? This is a wind-up right?
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28th Sep 2015 10:46am |
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| Rallymental Member Since: 17 Aug 2015 Location: The Garden of England Posts: 468 
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Er, yes, after consulting several pieces of translation software and contacting the heads of the modern languages departments at Oxford, Cambridge and Peckham Universities we can confirm that it roughly translates to LONG VEHICLE you can imagine our shock and surprise at these findings!
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28th Sep 2015 10:51am |
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| bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705
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I like the ones that say "Wide Load"...
Given the requirement for functioning eyes in the driving test I'm pretty sure the guy selling those is laughing all the way to the bank.  |
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28th Sep 2015 12:44pm |
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| jimbob7 Member Since: 06 Jul 2013 Location: uk Posts: 2055 |
/\/\/\,Nope, car drivers are truely dumb,a 50ft+ vehicle is entirely invisible to the average car driver,the law requires hgv owners to display " LONG VEHICLE" markers at the back,in the hope that the literate car owner will recognise a "long HEAVY vehicle" and will leave (at 60 mph) a 482 ft ,146 meter gap before pulling in.
Car stopping distance at 60mph is 305 ft,92.9 meter.; Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5. |
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28th Sep 2015 2:31pm |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971 
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We don't bother putting a "Wide Load" sign on the wide load, because that's bloomin' obvious. We do put a "Wide Load" sign on the escort vehicle, so as to explain why there is a Defender with its headlights, hazards and a beacon parked in the middle of the road waiting for the wide thing to come round the corner.
Despite that you still get numpties driving round you on the verge, they usually reappear in your rear view mirror fairly quickly. |
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28th Sep 2015 2:36pm |
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| jimbob7 Member Since: 06 Jul 2013 Location: uk Posts: 2055 |
/\/\/\.in ,my day you used "wide vehicle regs" regardless.Not happy bunny driving when it's snowing and the amber light has to be flashing.. a fookin strobe that gave you fits,lol. Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5.
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28th Sep 2015 3:10pm |
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| Eduardo Member Since: 28 Aug 2008 Location: Región Metropolitana Posts: 2110  
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As a Spanish expert "LONGO" doesn't have any sense if you are not mucisian interested in the old music.
According to our dictionary is an old nusical note of 4 compass or 2 shorts. But, maybe our friends of Portugal can help us because LONGO means long in portuguese
Cheers Eduardo MY 2007 110 SW PUMA 2.4: Big Fog of 64' MY 1994 Jayco 1207 Folding camper: "El Tremendo"  Click image to enlarge |
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28th Sep 2015 7:40pm |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8581
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Some car drivers are numpties? NEVER!
Recently in local village there is a cross road which is traffic light controlled. All roads have the stopped line plus advanced stop line. Now convoy escort vehicle made a left turn with headlights on, flashing beacon and a big sign saying wide load and made the turn as wide as possible close to the centre line. This was obviously not sufficient enough warning for a car driver who wanted to turn right, who decided that the best place to stop was right up to the ASL. Now guess what wanted to turn left? Yes a big wide load vehicle with some form of large earth moving equipment on which was slightly wider then the lorry. Yes the lorry had to make a wide turn except it could not complete it because of the car. Now what did our car driver do when faced with a rather large vehicle within a couple feet of the front of his car? Yes just sat there. The escort vehicle driver had to leave his vehicle and ask the car driver politely  to select reverse gear and move his vehicle backwards so that the wide long load lorry could complete its left turn.
No car drivers are not numpties it is the long wide load lorry drivers at fault 
Brendan |
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28th Sep 2015 8:47pm |
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| Fabio Member Since: 05 Aug 2011 Location: Somerset Posts: 589 
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That is correct Eduardo!! Fabio |
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13th Oct 2015 10:05pm |
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| RED-DOT Member Since: 29 Jun 2009 Location: stirling Posts: 2363 
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Sorry guys but it was really meant as a joke and it's turned into a language lesson!! 2008 RS4 gone, 123d M Sport, and a Puma 90 XS..
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15th Oct 2015 6:19pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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Bit like the "ecnalubma" sign I saw on a white van
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15th Oct 2015 6:28pm |
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