Friends, disturbing news. When I woke up this morning Bertie was gone. I tried ringing but he left his phone in the lorry. Then, just now, I got this disturbing picture. It seems Jason from Chrome Northwest has kidnapped him. Basically unless www.facebook.com/chromenorthwest gets over the 2,000 like hurdle by the end of the day it will be the end of Bertie! Nooooooooo! So quick, LIKE NOW ONWARD!

As many of you will have seen there was a 130 car pile up in Kent yesterday. Many eyewitnesses mentioned the fact that despite there being thick fog people weren't using their lights. Many car drivers, and some truck drivers, just don't understand the importance of lights. I've had conversations with friends who were adamant that the only time to use lights was in the dark. This is utter rubbish. In fact I use my lights at all times. You can never be too visible. Its such a simple way to improve safety yet people have strange misconceptions about when to use lights. Lights should be on in ANY reduced visibility. And by lights I mean dipped headlights. Sidelights are for one thing and one thing only, parking. The thing that came across when talking about this was the belief that lights are just for the driver to see. I took the pictures above to illustrate the point that being seen is so important. In the third picture there is actually a car, level with the rear of my tra...

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How do friends. Sorry there has been a lack of activity on this site of late, I've been flat out at work. The other issue is that I can't keep doing videos of the same trips otherwise they will get boring. Anyhow, got to go to Hungary last week so there shall be a new series of videos coming up, hopefully the first will be towards the end of the week as long as I can find the time to make it. In in the mean time I've just uploaded the latest video from my American holiday so please feel free to enjoy that.