M25 Westbound - 2.47pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M25_motorway
A nondescript and poorly constructed photo actually tells a story. Dull for many but it got me thinking.
So there I was. Driving back from Cambridge after another aborted attempt at flying even though the skies were seemingly clear and it was hovering near 25 degrees centigrade. The reason being that there was too much haze and visibility was 'only' 4.5 km when 5.0 km is required for VFR (visual flight rules) flying. 3 hours driving and 40 quid in petrol. Hey ho.
So after passing numerous trucks and then a whole lot more trucks on the M25 it got me thinking. How many efffing trucks are there on this road?
So I got counting (as sad as that is).
Over the next 30 mins I counted how many trucks passed me going the other way over 1 mile stretches of the motorway. 51 was the average. Given the M25 is 117 miles in length you could hypothetically extrapolate that number to arrive at the conclusion that if I were to count all trucks going the other way whilst I drove the entire route of the M25 I would possibly pass 5,967 trucks going the other way. Hypothesising further you could say that on average there would be an identical amount of trucks going in the same direction as you as there are passing past you. That makes for 11,934 trucks on the M25 at any given time during the day.
Little wonder I thought there were a lot of them.
Life has resorted to counting trucks.
Someone shoot me.
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