SUPER SUNNY TUESDAY FOR SOUTH WEST TRUCKS

He plan came to fruition with a very early start from home which gave me a great head start down through a still quiet Midlands to get to Ross on Wye about 7.30. My usual spot on the Ross roundabout was still fairly deep in shadow at this time but the first roundabout after the motorway was fine so I span round back up to the motorway roundabout and back to the services where I parked and walked up. This gave me such good shots that I decided to stick with it and by 9am I already had my first hour. I went back to the car and moved up to the Ross turn off roundabout which in the opposite direction turns off to Hereford. This was now in ideal light and it didn't really take that long before my second hour was notched up. Then after a bottle of water I carried on down to Monmouth and the first roundabout on the edge of town where I park up just off the roundabout and it;s a very nice grassy spot and the light once again was superb. There seemed to be more lorries than ever and everyone was returning my waves and thumbs up.

Then with thee hours under my belt the yomp down to Avonmouth docks near Bristol and again there seemed to be a lot more action than usual but perhaps not such a good mix of independent carriers with interesting paint jobs and golden oldies. It's also where they maintain the Avon fire vehicles so you can usually pick up a few of them as well as passing buses. Well what a great day I'd had, success and no hassle and time to carry on back up the M5 and fingers crossed I'd get past the West Midlands before the teatime crawl became too bad. Even my frugal little IQ uses fuel when doing these mileages in a day so had to fill up at Stafford service, it came to £37 which is the most money I've ever spent filling it. Home about 5.10pm which I thought was good going. Not a lot of orders today either post, phone or net so I won't be leaving Mandy in the lurch early tomorrow when i set off to Norfolk and hope I have luck with the buses and fingers crossed that the nasty sods in Norwich keep out of my way, can't forget how horrible they are anywhere near the bus station, even match old Barnsley.

​Anyway I'm sure you'll be wanting to see soner shots so starting at Ross here we go