Off to fill the patrol car, catch you soon

I've been single crewed non stop for 12 months

Jees , no new boys joining for 18 months, blimmen heck Slab, so I guess single manning is now the norm then?

We haven't had any newbies for 18 months, training is frozen because its awkward during the pandemic

And from the sound of it that is a lot more indeed a pay freeze is pretty fliipin bad, what is recruitment like nowadays? do you see fresh faced new lads joining?

Thats a issue way above my pay grade! I leave that to people who get paid a lot more than me

Yeah I see that ... the most ridiculous statement of the month surely is that Highways England has 'no duty of care to motorists' and had no reason to monitor traffic for stranded vehicles according to Highways England's own barrister Nicholas Chapman

We still advise to phone jobs in them so we can pinpoint their correct location

Yeah but everyone has a mobile phone, SOS phones are so last generation, distressed motorists are straight on their mobile

Thats if the sos phones are working!

Wow it all depends on motorists phoning in?

We don't have any cameras on my patch.

But the calls you go to emanate from Cameras surely?

Thats a different department to me, we don't get involved in that side of it

Ok so we have found out that nobody has responsibility for monitoring cameras along a motorway, that is a fact put forward by the Doncaster coroner investigating the latest smart motorway death

We don't have them and there are no intentions of installing them

Haha I love that, your Grandma was cool bless her

I was once told by my grandma growing up, if you have nothing good to say, say nowt!

And another way a new smart motorway is being put together as we speak in Hampshire slab, do you have a good word to say on Smart Motorways?

Its probably to do with our safety imperative, we are using a number of ways to keep the motorway safe, this is one of them

How can it be worth the cost to H.E , I cant see why they bought it, do you?

I've seen that on our intranet, quite a few truckers have been talking about it over on trucknet

That is pretty cheap cor so to motorways UK, there is a Highways England HGV cab. STAFFORDSHIRE Police has BORROWED it off Highways England? have you seen it Slabber?

Its a lot quieter since Tango died but its a safe haven for a few mates to have a laugh. It only costs me £5 a month for hosting

Sounds like you are back on the road, what an achievement !!

So I bit the bullet, got my techie mate to download new software and we relaunched

Flippin heck Slab, well my goodness, you could write a book on that

Not a lot, I tried contacting his partner, but all phone numbers were dead

JEEES that is such a mountain to climb, ok what else could you do?

Yep, he had cancer and passed away, I got in touch with the hosting company but because everything was in his name, I couldn't get a copy of the database, this was nearly 3 years ago

Covid again?

Oh you mean they ACTUALLY DIED?

Christ, that is terrible, your old host wouldnt discuss it?

The old host died and took everything with him. I had to wait for my url to expire so I could get it back and start from scratch

Very supportive during the pandemic

Nice one , good to hear so your forum I see there is a 'new Online Exiles forum'. returning members from the old site are told, this is a brand new site on a different server, you will need to register. so what happened to the old site? the old posts could not be brought over?

They've been brilliant

Really, refresh Ctrl+F5? anyway here is the full lo down on that quite an awful day for me, so what have NWAS been like?

I'm with NWAS

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