02-04-2021, 07:53 AM
The advent of the milk tanker has ruined many backroads here. There is not the constraint of historic walls and bridges and roads are easily straightend and widend to suit. I now occassionally drive an inherited modern Jazz. After decades of older car I find it daunting on metal back roads. FWD and if it falls down the shoulder camber hard to power out and steer. The vehicle is wide and the wheels at full width. a huge thin vulnerable windscreen. Difficult to reverse looking out the window. When picnicking on sand beach my father used to watch the rear tyre whilst reversing back into the softer stuff. Inept tourists have also spurred the elimination of metal roads.