snafu wrote: 13 Jul 2009 12:15 am "Legendary member" Mine has to be the one and only Flash. Now there was a poster who would make you laugh. Cost me a fortune to keep buying new keyboards due to tea spillage. "About NT in 2006" NT was the first forum I ever joined so right from the start it seemed fantastic. Lots of topics, serious and funny, to join in on. As well as HATOs there were Ambo, BiB and others to talk too, ask questions, spar with and yes occasionally defend ourselves against but it was all good fun…..mostly

by jezza » 12 Jul 2009 11:15 pm "Legendary Ambo" Pongolad - Some say he's an overpaid sex pest, some say that without him, Amsterdam's red light district would have gone bust... All we know is, he was a top notch HATO

welcome to the page that details how national traffic came into being, if you think you have a contribution to make, anecdotes, LEGENDARY MEMBERS, QUERIES, COMMENTS, REMARKS anything like that is sought for this page, do email me please if you can contribute anything

the very first members to join national traffic way back in 2006

top 10	username	location	joined	template	posts in phpBB2	member no
1	falkor	Surrey	23 Sep 2006	subSilver	1729	2
2	TheWanderer	On a Highway to Hell.	23 Sep 2006	subSilver	1736	3
3	mfowleruk	-	23 Sep 2006	subSilver	17	4
4	Bob Parr	nearly there	24 Sep 2006	subSilver	439	6
5	Charl_Hunter	Midlands	25 Sep 2006	subSilver	1317	8
6	lieutenant fatman	-	27 Sep 2006	subSilver	15	9
7	Melrailplastic	-	02 Oct 2006	subSilver	3	10
8	ukmedic1	London	03 Oct 2006	subSilver	90	11
9	aa man	Hertfordshire Somewhere	03 Oct 2006	subSilver	22	12
10	sueb	sunderland	05 Oct 2006	subSilver	7	16

back in 2006 when National Traffic surfaced, we were not the first to look at offering HATOs an unofficial platform (nor the last I hasten to add)

I believe the first to do so were Worldwide Police Forums who were then quite amazingly allegedly threatened with legal action!

A really great guy on Worldwide Police Forums, a fella by the name of Jon was basically intimidated and made to feel that he had to shut down his HATO area or there would be consequences!

Sadly - this happened on yet another site - the details of which I know even less about but basically - it was again an early HATO platform, run by a serving HATO I believe and maybe that was the problem - if anybody can pass me more details on that - PLEASE DO!

the very first members to join national traffic way back in 2006

top 20	username	location	joined	template	posts in phpBB2	member no
11	Discopete	Midlands	08 Oct 2006	subSilver	99	21
12	Whippet	EErrrrrrrrr	09 Oct 2006	subSilver	43	22
13	davesdad	birmingham	11 Oct 2006	subSilver	12	25
14	Vic Mackey	Farmington PD	11 Oct 2006	Elektro	743	26
15	DragonBall-GT	-	14 Oct 2006	Elektro	7	28
16	Race Track	Passenger seat	15 Oct 2006	subSilver	2349	30
17	ANT	-	18 Oct 2006	subSilver	46	31
18	X	-	19 Oct 2006	Elektro	54	32
19	ATMkiller	west mids	23 Oct 2006	Elektro	44	36
20	worx	Devon	24 Oct 2006	subSilver	51	37

But basically - in 2006 - national-pcsos had already been running for 2 years, a few T.Os who had nowhere to post their views - had joined. One particular HATO was "TheWanderer" and he told PCSO members about the T.O. role

After a while this WWP furore came to our notice and I approached "TheWanderer" as to whether he thought a separate forums for T.O.s would be a good idea.

So within days we launched "national traffic" and just 'hoped for the best!'

the very first members to join national traffic way back in 2006

top 30	username	location	joined	template	posts in phpBB2	member no
21	smithster	Leeds	24 Oct 2006	subSilver	99	38
22	C.B.L. International	North West, England,	25 Oct 2006	subSilver	8	39
23	fubar	sitting up drinking tea!	26 Oct 2006	Elektro	198	40
24	skinner	England here there every where	31 Oct 2006	Elektro	225	42
25	Flash	-	01 Nov 2006	subSilver	1486	44
26	Blakey	-	02 Nov 2006	subSilver	97	45
27	kipper	ile tell you when i get there	05 Nov 2006	subMerged	406	50
28	Larkford	South West England	07 Nov 2006	subSilver	24	51
29	Northern Lad	North	09 Nov 2006	GreenMylon	302	52
30	Blackrat	Midlands	09 Nov 2006	GreenMylon	920	53

The first couple of months saw a slow but steady flow of new members but most importantly, a lot of these members were HATOs AND quickly became enthusiastic forum members who provided real momentum to the site

You can see their names in the memberlist above and below this text, hehe we definitely enjoyed a colourful but enjoyable and exciting start year. We had our worries of course, we had our problems and hell, we too heard from the Highways Agency - their communication resulted in the DISCLAIMER that you are probably familiar with.

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the very first members to join national traffic way back in 2006

top 40	username	location	joined	template	posts in phpBB2	member no
31	northern monkey	somewhere where i don't know where i am	13 Nov 2006	whatisreal	20	54
32	Haywain	Somewhere on the Network!	13 Nov 2006	subMerged	175	55
33	the monk	South west	15 Nov 2006	subMerged	245	57
34	cowboy10uk	Somewhere on the M6	15 Nov 2006	subMerged	43	58
35	Nevr you mind	Somewhere wet and warm	15 Nov 2006	subMerged	447	59
36	Nightstalker	midlands	16 Nov 2006	subMerged	27	60
37	Village Idiot	Little Britain	17 Nov 2006	subSilver	24	61
38	bozzy	-	17 Nov 2006	subMerged	6	62
39	nick	North West	17 Nov 2006	subMerged	105	63
40	snafu	Butty Van	18 Nov 2006	subSilver	1912	66

Jon "You could say that mate"

falkor "Jon - didn't you put up a PAGE on the WWP site showing HATO vehicles and personnel, only to be threatened with legal action?"

Jon "Yeah, we started a forum for discussion about the Highways Agency and in particular for HATOs to come and let off steam, but the Highways Agency weren't having none of it."

falkor "Really?"

Jon "Yep, almost as a reaction to what we did, they instructed HATO's via notices, e-mails etc. that discussion of the "job" would result in disciplinary proceedings, and we don't expect people to risk their jobs for us, of course!"

falkor "Changing the subject for a minute Jon how did WWP forums gets started anyhow?"

Jon "Well you know falkor it's weird, sometimes you wake from a crash out with a nugget of an idea, and that idea was WWP. I created the first one in April 05, but it wasn't a raving success due to a number of my own mistakes which I learnt from. To be honest I missed running the forum and I opened up again in August and I think things through a lot more now now than I did back then!!"

falkor "You woke from a crash out?"

Jon "Yeah after E/T mate - you crash out like"

falkor "So true, I feel like a crash right now actually Jon"

the very first members to join national traffic way back in 2006

top 50	username	location	joined	template	posts in phpBB2	member no
41	19 Ton	Wouldn't U like 2 know	19 Nov 2006	GreenMylon	15	68
42	C Montgomery Burns	somewhere near springfield	19 Nov 2006	GreenMylon	9	69
43	mops1	central	20 Nov 2006	GreenMylon	265	71
44	PavementPizza	Jurassic Era - Yoshi Island	22 Nov 2006	GreenMylon	585	72
45	Sharpshooter	-	24 Nov 2006	subSilver	30	76
46	Renegade	S.W. asleep in the back seat	28 Nov 2006	subMerged	20	80
47	Biffo	-	29 Nov 2006	subSilver	421	82
48	mondeoman	east	01 Dec 2006	Elektro	434	85
49	Asap	Leanin' on the armco	01 Dec 2006	Elektro	455	88
50	The Punisher	-	04 Dec 2006	GreenMylon	70	92

by TheWanderer » 12 Feb 2007 12:38 am

"After the WWP fiasco, where I still stand by Jon and the guys at WWP, Falkor realised I was a HATO and asked if i'd be interested in helping to set up this forum.

"It nearly didn't happen as we looked at what had happened with other HATO related forums.

"I had initial reservations about potential repurcussions, and took a bit of convincing but Falkor kept positive and we decided it would be a professional but fun forum, which our membership has to-date proven can work, apart from the odd couple of serious issues, i'm sure most will agree with us"

by TheWanderer » 12 Feb 2007 12:38 am