Five's Motorway Madness

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Krayzie

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Wasn't great was it ?

Shows like that are reliant on 'characters' and bless them there weren't many around the place. :confused:

Funny how much that place Strensham has changed over the years. I can remember going in one Saturday afternoon and the services was like the Mary Celeste with half a dozen cars. Now according to that show it's one of the busiest around the UK....:rolleyes:

Another time I dropped in on a Sunday evening for petrol and I was dumbfounded that it was actually closed. The place must have closed up around 6pm !!! :eek: I had to go down into Gloucester to find a petrol station.
 
I've had a read about it and it sounRAB like something I'd really like, luckily it's on Demand Five so will have a watch. ;)
 
I was expecting something along the lines of BBC4's Department Store.

This wasn't as well made and seemed to be more interested in throwing round lots of "wow" large numbers. I lost count of the amount of times they told how many flamin hot drinks they were making/made over the weekend.

Although it wasn't as dramatised as the Eddie Stobart thing which I refuse to watch because of the impeding world crisis of doom everytime a lorry driver goes to work.
 
We sat and watched it whilst we were eating our tea and hubby and I got most excited at seeing a Wimpy. Not seen one of those in ages and we used to love their quarter pounders. :o

This has to be the first show on Five we have seen in......................, I don't know how long. We never usually even look at that channel, but I was channel hopping just as it started.
 
Apalling, cheap TV. I would have much prefered a BBC4 style documentary about services and their history, with some archive footage and some interesting stats. This was just a soppy drama about some boring characters...it looked like one big advert for Costa too.
 
I watched it as Strensham is local to me and I worked there many moons ago. To be honest it was one of the worst fly on the wall docs I have seen in years. As another poster said these programmes need "characters", Strensham has none. Were we supposed to warm to the 35 year old man who lives with his parents and works on his day off, or the 26 year old woman who wants to win a coffee competition at Costa?

It could have been interesting, even if the subject is a bit dry but the production values and the people they chose to feature were really bad.
 
Same here. Wimpy used to be everywhere, there's not one in the whole of East London now! And as for that Whsmith manager bloke living with his parents...I don't think the ladies will be queuing up matey if the biggest thrill you get is going in to work on your day off to see if everything looks ok! :rolleyes:
 
What do you mean, of course it is the end of the world if a Stobarts driver misses his booking by ten minutes. ;)
And missing a delivery is the worst thing he can possible do, never mind crashing the truck or anything or anything minor like that.

And are you suggesting that some dizzy bint driving over the QE2 bridge isn't as life or death as spinning out on the Atigun Pass? :D


I should point out that the aforementioned "Trucks and Trailers" hasn't exactly been well received on the truckers forums. "W*nkers in tankers" was suggested as a better title after Mr "I'm driving a bomb" in episode 1.
 
I didn't even realise there was a show around Strensham Services. I go there a few times a week when passing back home from Bristol to Derby.

Just realised I can't get Five demand on Virgin either.. Blah.. Hope it comes on again at some point.
 
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