It's not easy retrieving stray pillows from the carriageway of the M5 as four lanes of traffic hurtle by.
The patrol begins for James as the team head out on the road
Everyone is familiar with the distinctive National Highways cars that patrol our motorways. Many motorists mistake them for the police, but they are instead emblazoned with the words Traffic Officer. And while they work alongside the emergency services, their main objective is to maintain safety and help keep our motorway and major road network flowing.
One particular bugbear is drivers who end up stranded on the hard shoulder – or worse a live lane – after running out of fuel. "I asked him how far he was going, which turned out to be further than the range on the car, and asked him why he hadn't fuelled up. He simply thought he could make it." "My first role was to help set up a road block with the police for a major incident where there was three HGVs that were sandwiched together.
Tony, who lives in Halesowen, said his previous life had been in road haulage as both a lorry driver and a transport manager, but the 58-year-old said being made redundant and having no pension and no income had led him to look at other options for work. The vehicle is an impressive BMW X5 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, decked out in navy blue and lime green checks and adorned with National Highways livery, including a siren and lights.
Our route took us down the M5, onto the M42 at junction 4A, then along the M42 to a turning point at Coleshill which then took us along the M6 and into Birmingham at Spaghetti Junction.It felt, for a while, like it would be a nice and quiet drive around, with very little happening, but the call-sign of Whiskey Sierra Tango 2 finally came up for reports of debris in the form of the pillows on the M5 near junction 1.
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