markbmcfc
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stony said:
I dont see it as a selfish view, I see it that having to trucks blocking both lanes (for a lot longer than a minute or two) leaving no other lanes for other vehicles as bad lane discipline.
My opinion however.
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I dont see it as a selfish view, I see it that having to trucks blocking both lanes (for a lot longer than a minute or two) leaving no other lanes for other vehicles as bad lane discipline.
My opinion however.
markbmcfc said:stony said:It was a sarcastic response to your selfish view that trucks should not be allowed to overtake on duel carriageways, in case they delay you for a minute or two.
I dont see it as a selfish view, I see it that having to trucks blocking both lanes (for a lot longer than a minute or two) leaving no other lanes for other vehicles as bad lane discipline.
My opinion however.
Bad lane discipline is not something you can accuse most truck drivers of. You never see a truck fail to return to the inside lane once he has overtaken. A lot of car drivers on the other hand just sit there in the middle lane regardless of what's in the inside lane.
Some trucks are a lot slower than others(cranes for example) so it's also a bit hypocritical to expect them to stay behind a slower vehicle when you don't want to yourself.
Their journey is just as important as yours.
Dally
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You've got to remember tho Mark that every one of those drivers also has somewhere to go and in the case of almost all of them they have a time window to hit.
Time windows are the bairn of every lorry drivers life and when your late no one wants to listen to excuses. About 22 years ago, I was 30 minutes late to a distribution centre in Scotland and they made me wait 12 hours in the middle of winter without a night heater. F***ing awful. Believe me, a driver never wants to be late.
I'm with you a bit on the lifting up of the accelerator, for my part I always wanted someone coming past me to be past so I lifted, sometimes people lifted for me. A lot of the time they never and I can say that on occasions it's taken me 3 minutes to get past, it annoys everyone including me but you do it anyway.Believe me, the stress of the job at times can have a strongman in tears, I've seen it.
In the 24 years I've had my class one I have never known hardly anyone but the cab mad brigade who actually enjoy it but it's lucky that there's still people who do do it because just about everything, has at one time, been on the back of a lorry.
I drive locally now and it will be a really bad, and sad day if I find myself having to drive down those long and painful motorways again.
Time windows are the bairn of every lorry drivers life and when your late no one wants to listen to excuses. About 22 years ago, I was 30 minutes late to a distribution centre in Scotland and they made me wait 12 hours in the middle of winter without a night heater. F***ing awful. Believe me, a driver never wants to be late.
I'm with you a bit on the lifting up of the accelerator, for my part I always wanted someone coming past me to be past so I lifted, sometimes people lifted for me. A lot of the time they never and I can say that on occasions it's taken me 3 minutes to get past, it annoys everyone including me but you do it anyway.Believe me, the stress of the job at times can have a strongman in tears, I've seen it.
In the 24 years I've had my class one I have never known hardly anyone but the cab mad brigade who actually enjoy it but it's lucky that there's still people who do do it because just about everything, has at one time, been on the back of a lorry.
I drive locally now and it will be a really bad, and sad day if I find myself having to drive down those long and painful motorways again.
i drive a 100 tonne crane which is limited to 39 mph so everyone overtakes me with ease with the exception on single lane carrageways then when i'm in front of a lorry its pure bliss watcing the brain dead driver doing his best to kill any foker coming in the oposite direction....tipper drivers are easily the worse drivers on the road...pure knobs
Ed68
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stonie said:...tipper drivers are easily the worse drivers on the road...pure knobs
My vote for worst drivers are blokes in people carriers who are trying to show they are still 'the man' even though they had to get rid of the saloon 'cos they've got kids.
stonie said:.tipper drivers are easily the worse drivers on the road...pure knobs
They get paid by the load so they are always in a fucking rush. A bigger problem is plant drivers who are tacho exempt. Being tired at the wheel is just as dangerous as being drunk.
Unless things have radically changed in the last 5 years, I know it's standard practice for a crane driver to travel 5 or 6 hours, put in a full shift and then have the same drive home.
Not exactly safe is it ?
alanjames24
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You guys should try driving in the states. The driving test required out here is a joke. They all learn in automatics, NOBODY takes driving lessons. They just show up on their 16th birthday, drive around the block and hey presto! NOBODY signals, people rarely check their blind spots, they merge onto freeways at 45mph FFS. On top of this, there is ZERO lane ettiquette. Every lane is a free for all, which results in people fighting for positions and weaving in and out over 6 lanes of traffic like mad men. On top of this, here (In Arizona) people regularly carry guns and I know a number of people who have had them pointed at them when they've upset motorists.
I am just about to sell my motorbike after 3 years of riding because I'm pretty sure my luck is about to run out. I have had a couple of close calls, luckily I rode it pretty defensive.
Chill the fook out and listen to some music, everybody is trying to get somewhere.
I am just about to sell my motorbike after 3 years of riding because I'm pretty sure my luck is about to run out. I have had a couple of close calls, luckily I rode it pretty defensive.
Chill the fook out and listen to some music, everybody is trying to get somewhere.