robroy:
Scraggy88:
Jeeze, I guess I consider myself spoiled over here then,
I sometimes drive with my coffee in hand resting on the window to “air cool” my coffee
RCMP never bat an eyelid as people drink coffee or a bottle of water etc all the time like everywhere else in the world!!!
I believe over here it is down to the discretion of the officer to determine if a person is not in control of their vehicle and I would imagine it’s the same in England so god only knows why they push so hard to bother HGV drivers with something as trivial as drinking a coffee!
Obviously is someone is watching a movie or sitting on their bunk or something clearly stupid then absolutely stop them and shaft them but I’m sure the police know more than anyone how hard lorry drivers work through the week and how much distance we cover etc so having a sip from a coffee cup should really not be such a big deal. Do they expect us to pull over every few miles to sip coffee or something!
You can get your ■■■ that the police do exactly what they penalize drivers for too.
What’s next, are they gonna ban the sale of coffee to HGV drivers or somethingAs I said mate, drinking a coffee …a heinous crime, all media led propaganda, the Old Bill love all that type of [zb] that the public believe and readily subscribe to,.as they can make a few quid out of it with public backing.
The old saying of “never bite the hand that feeds you” comes to mind as we feed the whole world in the respective countries.
As unlikely as it may be, one day the people who keep the country moving may decide they have had enough of being penalized and segregated and harassed for simply doing our job and go on a nationwide strike for the simple reason of the aforementioned.
Like I said, as unlikely as it may be.
Drivers have to pay enough as it is just to do the job with CPC, medicals and sometimes keeping ADR and hiab and the likes so one would think not beings hassled off the police for trivial things is not really a big ask. Bad enough having to worry about the ministry checking for defects and what not.
But as you stated with your point, you are correct