Trucks (big rigs)

[bonneville]

you must be a driving school, I think...best I can come up with.
Greg

Not a driving school................ (the clue is in SAD)

[Greg Beetham]

I once saw a show on TV where they showed Trucks with oodles of trailers crossing Australia. I found that really fascinating. Over here you can see 1 trailer max. But despite all the glistening chrome and aluminum, it's still a tough job...I wonder if they put them on autopilot when deep in the country where you wouldn't cross another car for weeks ...

I agree bossel, I've often wondered how those road-train drivers stay awake mile after endless mile of pretty much the same thing, it being fairly flat and featureless for huge distances out west, I suppose there is always the odd roo or feral pig etc. maybe even a min-min light too keep one alert.
Funny thing about driving at night out west (I have been out there in my younger days), if you see a car's headlights coming in the distance, your spatal estimates get really fouled up, where you think it might be about 1/2 Km away and you think you'd better dip your lights (so you don't dazzle the oncoming driver), the car turns out too be somethink like 10 Km away...it takes ages before you actually pass one another.
Another funny thing is, sometimes you find an old pile of empty rum or such bottles beside the road (on a remote side road mainly). I had too ask one day what that was all about (from someone that lives out there), it turns out that a couple of neighbours that live say, a hundred Km apart, see each other on the road (and haven't seen one another for a long time) and pull up for a yarn, and it developes from there, someone else stops too join in etc. then by next day more join in....they even send runners into town, (who knows how far that might be) to get more supplies, food, booze etc. and it get's bigger and bigger....smack dab right in the middle of nowhere.....they're a weird mob.
Greg

[Greg Beetham]

Not a driving school................ (the clue is in SAD)

Hmmm nope, you've got me there...
Greg

[David Kilpatrick]

Police training or forces training?

David

[bonneville]

Not a driving school................ (the clue is in SAD)

Hmmm nope, you've got me there...
Greg

Okay, so as not to hi-jack your thread Greg

SAD is an Anagram of DSA which is the Driving Standards Agency and my team train the UK's driving examiners for all groups of vehicles. So when I said they are mine they are sort of

Brian

[Greg Beetham]

Okay, so as not to hi-jack your thread Greg

SAD is an Anagram of DSA which is the Driving Standards Agency and my team train the UK's driving examiners for all groups of vehicles. So when I said they are mine they are sort of

Brian

Wow! you guys train the examiners...I'm impressed.
Greg
ps. Hijack away...it's all good.

[Greg Beetham]

I should probably elaborate a little about the bottle midderns I saw in case you all get the wrong idea, I can only remember seeing two in all my times out there, (there might be more), but they were obviously old even then, and that was 35+ years ago, so I guess it's a bygone era, it wouldn't happen these days, what with the drink driving laws the way they are and things aren't as remote now with better roads,many more and better cars, and people being in much more of a rush etc.
Greg