ad210358 wrote:

Changed your Sig CG is Mr Strut retuning soon

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Dave wrote:

chicken george wrote:

pinkie will be locked up real soon then

just re-read that  At work
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Anyone thinking of towing should read this first

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/Drive...DG_4022564

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Anyone who gets fixated on this 'bashing caravanners' band wagon needs to get a life. There are plenty of genuine hazards on the road like unroadworthy vehicles and uninsured drivers, which need sorting before turning on perfectly roadworthy and well driven (mostly) car / caravan outfits.

Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to tow a 'van on the highway. We all have our vices, what's yours? !!!

If people are so impressionable that they get brainwashed by the top-gear 'blow up a caravan' mindset and adopt those views as their own, then they need to take a good look in the mirror and work out why they are so gullable.

For me, a caravan holiday is fantastic, the kids love it, and in a world where I get to choose how to spend my time and my money I say tough doo-doo to anyone stuck behind a caravan. Change down a gear and overtake, a stop your whining.

But we are all entitled to out opinions, aren't we.

I type this with a smile on my face, so don't bother replying with the ' miserable git ' comments. It just needed saying.

Nuff said.

Thread like this a only posted to get a response

Let them think what ever they like  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

ad210358 [/quote]Their should be a Tax on all trailers not just LGV's then we can get some of these delapidated farmers trailers off the roads [/quote]

Warning: for those of you who may wish to travel on Swiss motorways towing a caravan or any form of trailer; it is compulsory to purchase a "Vignette" (available at all Swiss Post Offices & Border Crossings) one for your car - and - one for your caravan or trailer. The current cost is CHF40 each (approx UK£24 @ today's xc rate.)

These are valid until 31st Jan the following year. Failure to display the vignette incurs an automatic fine of CHF200 plus CHF20 admin fee plus an escort off the motorway to the nearest Post Office to buy one. Note: inspections for vignettes usually take place on the motorway's exit road.

For the record caravans may not pay any RFL, but they still pay tax........in the form of fuel tax, a caravan increases the amount of fuel consumption of a vehicle and so increases the amount of tax paid to the treasury.  

its an intersting debate
i origanlly sided with the lets ban brigade but some good arguments here well reasoned make me now side the othe way whats happening to me? Arrrgh

The other argument that CG has failed to realise is that if caravans were banned the next time he stayed at one of his boutique hotels he might find it is full of ex-vanners! 

nah the hotels have hot/cold running water and sanitation, vaners would hate that

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I second that CG



Aaa that's where to find the rules for towing then...thanks Dave! (not that reading it a couple of years ago has stopped me ) Mine: 2012 Golf GTI Edition 35
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tug100 wrote:

Anyone who gets fixated on this 'bashing caravanners' band wagon needs to get a life. There are plenty of genuine hazards on the road like unroadworthy vehicles and uninsured drivers, which need sorting before turning on perfectly roadworthy and well driven (mostly) car / caravan outfits.

Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to tow a 'van on the highway. We all have our vices, what's yours? !!!

If people are so impressionable that they get brainwashed by the top-gear 'blow up a caravan' mindset and adopt those views as their own, then they need to take a good look in the mirror and work out why they are so gullable.

For me, a caravan holiday is fantastic, the kids love it, and in a world where I get to choose how to spend my time and my money I say tough doo-doo to anyone stuck behind a caravan. Change down a gear and overtake, a stop your whining.

But we are all entitled to out opinions, aren't we.

I type this with a smile on my face, so don't bother replying with the ' miserable git ' comments. It just needed saying.

Nuff said.

Miserable Git  ______________________
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2012 FL2 SD4 Auto HSE
2013 Kawasaki Versys 650

chicken george wrote:

nah the hotels have hot/cold running water and sanitation, vaners would hate that

I prefer holiday cottages anyway, hotels bore me

When was the last time you was in a van, pretty confident that all us vanners on here the above, there is a certain fraternity that don't have the sanitation but none of us want to be associated with those dirty thieving robbing

I only cause a traffic jam because I am restricted by the law to 50 on roads and 60 on motorways

And I have hot water, heating, shower ...... in fact everything you need

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muddywheels wrote:

And I have hot water, heating, shower ...... in fact everything you need

wood burning stove? grand piano? roll top bath?

I thought not  At work
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