So much for my theory, half term and I thought that there might me a bit less traffic on the M25, guess I was wrong

What a day, if there is a good thing to be said about the M25 then I would welcome it. Stuck in a huge jam going to Gatwick and back to London. Then once more going to Feltham, sick and tired of driving today

Loads of Aston's today on the M25, must be the warm weather. Nice classic one with a few of the new style

Amazing, managed to get to J18 on the M1 and back again without any roadworks and lane closures(that was on Tuesday night)

Lovely weather tonight, makes me wonder where the Spring went and did Summer follow it

Bad smash on the M25 J15-16, took ages just to get on to the slip road onto the M4 and then the usual crawl to the M25, saw the cars when I went past them, he'll of a mess.

An interesting day, started my day weep ting to do a duty that would have been easier than my usual one. Having got to our depot in W London I began to load up, then when the time came to raise the deck bugger all happened. I thought that the power was gone so plugged in the Anderson lead and still,sweet bugger all. Then the hydraulics light came on in the trailer warning panel, oh bugger this looks serious, looking around the trailer I noticed that it was sitting a bit low so a further inspection was deemed to be in order. The bloody thing had settled on the tyres, mud guards were resting on the back axle tyres, not good. Started it up to get some air and nothing, no air in the trailer system, called the breakdown and when he arrived he couldn't do anything. A more knowledgable mechanic was called and he arrived when I was going home as this had dragged beyond my duty time so he has by now fixed it, as all was left at the depot they should organise the recovery of the unit and trailer back to our yard. Not bad in 9 hours I managed to drive all of 33km.

Loads of room to overtake so indicate and start to move into the middle lane, the prat in a car about 400yds back decides that he needs to be ahead of me and floors it. At this time I'm in the middle lane, as he goes past I get the usual blast on the horn and hand gestures

On the M3 this morning, unit towing a horse box, must be a very heavy horse

Bloody Highways bods do it again, close a few exits of the M25 and put up signs two junctions away. Someone in that mob needs to go on a planning course and soon. Not many places to take a 16ft high and 50ft long trailer through

Interesting driving on the M25 today, the amount of spray was unreal, and then the fun really began when I had to take one of our oversized trailers into London. Got used to it but some of the drivers around Hanger Lane still get a rude awakening when they see that back end come round so fast.

Dozy Howdens crane driver, as we were passing an accident on the on ramp of the M4 this prat is on my outside. My unit is half way down his lorry when the moron indicates and starts to come over into my lane, sharp step on the brakes and he almost takes out my unit, carries on like nothing has happened, almost caused another pileup, absolute wanker

On the M1 tonight and it felt like every Sid that had a car with a doggy headlight was on that road. How do they get away with it, if we as much as have a marker light out the Police come down on us like a ton of bricks

Weird, so used to coming to our depots when it's dark that when I arrived here in Norwich when it was still light I could see all the bits that the night masked up. Loads of deer in the fields.

Cracker, had a unit that was a bit light on the steering but it made up for it in speed. Bloody quick, got back to our depot half an hour early, no complaints there

DCPC

One more module done and dusted. Tis time it was the Tachograph stuff, so now I should be able to do all the fancy stuff on the new Siemens 1.4 model

One of these days the M1 will be clear of all the road works

Easy week this, tomorrow another CPC course, Friday normal day, Good Friday I'm off so enjoy while it lasts

Few pics from today's escapades

First is from the M1 after just joining it from M25.

Second one is after arriving at NDC with a bit of snow everywhere

Bloody cold last night, coming down the M1 this morning it was wet and miserable, sleet all the way back to Heathrow. Then adding more misery the HA closed the junction that I needed to get home, bloody inconsiderate, wouldn't have minded but the info about this only came up about a mile before getting to J15 on the M25.