With more than 670-miles of roads to cover, what is it like to patrol some of the UK's busiest routes?
Traffic officers patrol the region's major routes including the M62, M606, M621 and parts of the M1Just days after the government scrapped all new smart motorway plans over cost and safety concerns, the BBC spent a shift with the National Highways team in Yorkshire to see how its officers work to keep drivers safe and traffic flowing on some of the UK's busiest roads.
Assessing the scene, the pair decide to stop the traffic on the slip road, using their fluorescent yellow and green checked Volvo to create a rolling road block and bring the vehicles to a stop. "This is a busy junction, traffic from several towns come into here," George tells me, shouting across the now-closed three lanes of traffic.
"[One driver last week] was driving right up to the incident, but a camera flashed her. Dunno what she was thinking," he says.The National Highways control room in Yorkshire handles calls about breakdowns and crashes
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