The unwritten rule of the road i was a taught before i started driving, 'give way to uphill traffic', when the country was a better place.

As for lorries having more powerful engines (though still around 10bhp per gvw ton in many cases), well like modern cars the move is to smaller engines heavily turbocharged to get enough power out of them, and just like cars with small engines getting them moving can be a slow frustrating process, not helped by the automated manual boxes now fitted to the vast majority with their slow response and gearchange times...fine on the motorway maintaining speed not so good at junctions or when sheer guts is required such as dead hill starts, where traction can also be a serious problem.

Actually Hillman, given the same weights i'd gladly swap any of the lorries i've driven over the last ten years for any of my 80's machines, needed to be driven not just steered but better working tools overall.

Edited by gordonbennet on 07/05/2017 at 20:21