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Old 4th January 2021, 20:15   #12
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Originally Posted by trikey View Post
It doesn't matter what you are driving, on ice the contact patch of the tyres is the same for all of us, regardless of what we are driving.

That's right, I remember being sent on some driver training courses for defensive & fuel consumption courses when the company I worked at got taken over by TDG (transport development group) even though I'd held a class 1 HGV licence for over 20 years at the time I remember being told that all the fully laden weight of the tractor unit & trailer was on the space of an A4 sheet of paper on each wheel.
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