This & That: Planes, trains and ... squeezing through very small spaces

This & That

Planes, trains and ... squeezing through very small spaces

Driving back up the motorway northwards from Bordeaux, we encountered a typical situation where truck A decides to overtake truck B but can only do so at a speed marginally greater than truck B so that his spy-in-the-cab device does not register him as speeding. As a result, the overtaking manoeuvre drags on and on, and following cars get frustrated.

You remember the scene in Planes, Trains & Automobiles where Steve Martin and John Candy's car squeezes between two trucks?

The driver of that white car above wasn't just changing lanes when I took the photo; he sat on the white line for long enough for me to find the camera and take the picture (I wasn't driving at the time) and then slowly swung left and right looking between the lorries.

I would bet good money that if the gap had been wide enough ...... he'd have been off!

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