Today's morning rush on the M23 was typical, wet, busy but mostly free-moving. I was in the outside lane which was doing around 65mph, following a Ford Galaxy. As I was almost alongside a 26-tonner following a car at a safe distance in the centre lane, the traffic in my lane suddenly started to brake. The Galaxy driver dealt with this inconvenience by diving into the gap on his left, at a stroke reducing the truck's following distance to a fifth. Nothing unusual, you are thinking, the sort of manoeuvre that truck drivers suffer every day. Except that the back of this Galaxy was covered in day-glo stripes and the words TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.
While every right-thinking person in this industry supports VOSA's work, allowing clowns like this to represent it is certainly no way to develop the respect it needs. It's not an isolated incident, either, as I've previously seen the way they drive at speeds of 85mph on a busy M25 to leapfrog trucks to pull in for checks at J9.