When the Last Vehicle Actually Gets There CONVOY
Thirty vehicles fifty metres apart occupy 1,660 metres of road and take two and a half minutes to pass a point. The tail does not arrive when the head does.
The move
The serials
SerialVehiclesLength mGap mkm/hThen wait
Gap is between vehicles, nose to tail. Then wait is the minutes between one serial’s last vehicle clearing the start point and the next serial’s first vehicle crossing it.
The table
The march graph
Time across, distance up. The solid line is the head of each serial and the dashed line is its tail; where two bands overlap, two serials are on the same stretch of road at the same time.
The working
Questions people ask about CONVOY
Related tools
- CORDONWork out a cordon and keep the posting log
- ONCALLAn on-call rota that is demonstrably fair
- BRIEFWrite a briefing that survives being passed on
- MILEAGEKeep a mileage log the tax office will accept
- TACHOThe article, the figure and the minute
- CHECKLISTRun a checklist and keep the proof you ran it