Time for an exciting new Eye feature!
Potato Bob speaks!
This from CommercialMotor.com...
Goodwill spent many years working on his family farm, which, at its
height, delivered and produced 1,000 tonnes of potatoes a year to the
McCain chip factory in Scarbrough. The family became involved in the
sulphuric acid desiccation of potatoes and, he admits, it was a bit of a
slog having to travel up to Teesside to get his Hazardous Chemicals
Certificates so he could drive the truck.
One of his more
excruciating journeys came on his way to Scarborough. While driving his
Volvo F10, the flexible exhaust pipe joining the main exhaust silencer
box to the engine ruptured, and the hot exhaust gases went on to the
clutch slave cylinder. Very soon, the clutch stopped working,
completely.
Goodwill says he was unsure how to deal with the
problem: "I thought OK, well I'll just keep going. So I drove all the
way to Scarbrough without a clutch, just using the engine speed.
Fortunately, I didn't have to stop because the lights were in my favour.
I decided that if I did have to stop, I'd start it again in a very low
gear. It was a 30-mile trip, though".
Good to see that Potato Bob, the minister charged with 'road safety and standards', has such a grip on his brief!
