I know this has been covered before but today i was trundling up the M6 today and one ad in particular between J17 and 18 caught my eye.
Can't remember it exactly but the main part of the ad was a website address (link not given due to it's nature!) which turns out to be for an escort agency.
It got me thinking about the legality of the advert, website states that you are paying for time not services but surely there has got to be some kind of protection about such blatent ads at the side of the road?
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You went to the website then, blue? ;) Could be time to clear your history before your wife gets paranoid!
The one for Damon Hill BMW that's next to one of the Midland motorways - is it the man himself moving into car sales, or just a conveniently named BMW dealer?
Back to the question though, I don't think those ads come under any of the regulators. More often than not, someone just pays a farmer a nice sum of money to erect the board in his field.
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Wife? chance would be a fine thing!
Yes it is THE Mr Hill who now has a BMW dealership.
As to the ads of course i went and had a look - just out of curiosity mind! I understand that it's just a farmer sticking an old trailer in his field but given the actual nature of what they're advertising i would of thought they could get it pulled somehow.
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I have a suspicion that advert hoardings are not allowed on motorways, and I have a vague recollection that either DVD or midlifecrisis made some reference to this last week.
So the farmers are making an extra few bucks over and above the sometims obscene subsidies which they receive for doing nothing (set aside etc)
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I wonder if he gets payment in kind ;-)
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On the M4 West-bound, just East of Bath there is a huge wagon in a field draped with an ad for glasses to be ordered online.
At £15 a pair c/w lenses it is a remarkable deal. The guy running the company has been featured in the national press exposing many opticians as being rip off merchants.
There is only one problem. The hoarding is approaching the brow of a hill with a slight right-hand curve. Any muppet looking for the website address for more than a nano-second risks drifting out of lane - and never needing glasses again..............
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If you need glasses...How can you read it?
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Far more useful would be sensibly proportioned boards telling you that at the next junction there is amjor supermarket where you can pull off and get reasonably priced hot food and fuel.
Every time I drive to Dover I try to remember which junction on the M20 the Tesco is situated on. Unfortunately you can't see it until you've passed it and its a long way to the next junction to bother about turning round. Trying to get a decent breakfast in Dover is impossible.
When in France you are never short of information on which shops are where, often far too much information to be taken in but perhaps a change in the regulations here would empower the motorist and get them out of the hands of the motorway services rip-offs.
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Watch out for all the 'Vote for Me' variety, appearing in a field near you soon.
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There's a Sainsbury's right by junction 9 of the M20. Has a restaurant according to their website.
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Matthew Kelly
No, not that one.
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"Every time I drive to Dover I try to remember which junction on the M20 the Tesco is situated on."
This site should help
www.5minutesaway.co.uk/frm/index.asp
Sainsbury's at J5 and J9, Tesco J10
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but given the actual nature of what they're advertising i would of thought they could get it pulled...
Phnarr, Phnarr.
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I'm sure there was/is a regulation saying that fixed advertising hoardings cannot be erected at the side of motorways.
The way it's been got around is by plastering the ads onto a trailer and parking it in a field.
There do appear to be some that aren't on a trailer, though. Maybe they've got tiny wheels on the bottom, making them non-fixed?
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Do you know what we have on the roadsides here in Poland that is particularly distracting, and not in a bad way either? Hookers. Not in the towns and cities, but along the intercity dual carriageways, standing on what passes for the hard shoulder, generally where the roads are lined with forests. I saw the first one of Spring last weekend as I drove out of Warsaw and by Summer there is usually one every few miles. Someone told me they were Ukrainian and very pretty they are too. They aren?t the only people plying their trade either. There are many old FSOs and Fiat 126s littered along the way from which people sell fruit and veg and we do stop and buy from them occasionally.
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