Thread: Excuses ,excuses, after I told her off and still on the mobile

Originally Posted by JDNSW

When my employer had an operation in Myanmar in the eighties, our company's only fatality was a road accident - rushing to get home before the curfew. Another very close call was when a surveyor, heading back to camp after overnight satellite observations just after the curfew ended (still dark). His driver was following the usual practice of driving at night without lights, and ran into the load of a broken down timber jinker on the main highway up the Sittang valley. The log went through the windscreen of the Landcruiser between him and the driver.

Did have a helicopter crash though, with about eight injured, some seriously. Of course there were no mobile phones then - in fact, it was extremely difficult to get any form of communication licence.

John

Interesting stories - thanks for sharing.
Every village has a 3G tower now. I got a local prepaid SIM for 500 kyat (about $5) My mobile seems to work everywhere - the coverage is much more widespread than in Australia, supposedly a developed country. Wifi is spreading rapidly too.
Phones are cheap too, both calls and to buy outright. I'm seriously tempted by a large screen Oppo or Samsung with a 13 megapixel camera for only $240 (about 240,000 kyat).

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Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

No don't think speed needs to be increased, if you just get rid of people towing caravans on the roads then the trip won't be so long.

Why? I pass them all

And when I'm towing my Crossover - I sit on the healthy side of the posted speed.

Minimum Bickie Dipper towing speed should be 100km/h..

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Interesting stories - thanks for sharing.
Every village has a 3G tower now. I got a local prepaid SIM for 500 kyat (about $5) My mobile seems to work everywhere - the coverage is much more widespread than in Australia, supposedly a developed country. Wifi is spreading rapidly too.
Phones are cheap too, both calls and to buy outright. I'm seriously tempted by a large screen Oppo or Samsung with a 13 megapixel camera for only $240 (about 240,000 kyat).

Sent from my SM-G900I using AULRO mobile app

Myanmar is much more densely populated than Australia too! In the 1980s it was just about the most inaccessible country in the world, but started opening up about then. It had languished for decades under the iron rule of Ne Win's "Burmese road to Socialism".

A good indication of the state of affairs was that the best maintained building close to the hotel I stayed in on my first visit (the Strand) was the secret police headquarters.

John

Originally Posted by MR LR

What sane person wants to slow down if they have to cover 1000-1500km in a day?

Do you go outside?

First off did I specifically say slow down on the open road ? If the law and conditions , road weather vehicle and driver allow , travel at the posted speed. But is there any need for rates of travel in urban residential areas at what by eye and ear seem well above the designated speeds ? These drivers of any age licence grading , whatever , who are on the phone or the focus of my concern.
Try crossing a road near my abode. No crossings painted within miles . Does any let you cross unmolested from corner to corner , not often. Courtesy to other road users , nil.
Yes I get out ,but after driving as a courier all week , by Friday I have had a gut full of these morons.

It's all a matter of perception Trog

For all the phone operators there's a heap of over tired, un-rested, fatigued, upset, poorly trained etc individuals operating vehicles in a poor or inattentive manner...

Conditions where ever you are and at the time is what dictates the safe speed to travel at , but max speed limit should be adhered too if you get court doing otherwise suffer the consequences in silence i say .

I said above we travel at about 95 on the open road where the limit is normally 110. This I think gives more than enough difference for competent drivers to get past rather than if we sat on 100kph which in WA is the tops for ALL towing vehicles.
I'd rather travel at our lower speed than have to sit there while some plonker creeps past sitting dead on 110 because he doesn't want to get a ticket which is very easy in WA.
Don't you reckon sitting on the other side of the road is more dangerous than doing a few kays over some limit?
AlanH.

I will ask the question then, why sit 5km/h under? This means every truck will actually catch you, by doing 100km/h the speed limited trucks theoretically can never catch you and then there is no interaction to place anyone at risk.

Only the non-towing vehicles should then be passing...