Why is it this time of year its accident after accident every day theres something or has the standard of driving droped to an all time low ? maybe its all about attitude to much rushing and aggressive behaviour on the road
Increase in inexperienced drivers being chucked in at the deep end by unscrupulous agencies.
Increased volumes of freight traffic due to crimbo run up.
Less daylight hours leading to more fatigue.
Hysterical internet reporting by the authorities of every HGV incident.
The HGV test being not fit for purpose in the real world coupled with easier to drive vehicles allowing to many club plant pots to slip through the net and gain HGV entitlement.
To many of our beachwear attired cousins forking the job up.
The increase in dashcam drama queens, some whom I honestly believe deliberately try and create incidents for you tube.
Society in generals evolution of the entitled/snowflake generation who want everything yesterday and have no time to take a breath.
Not enough people realising that the UK roads can be a war zone at times but we are all on the same bloody side.
To much political correctness and not enough ■■■■. A tug a day keeps the road rage at bay, (3 tugs in my case).
Just my opinion, all debatable of course and I’m sure there’s more reasons.
Dipper_Dave:
Increase in inexperienced drivers being chucked in at the deep end by unscrupulous agencies.Increased volumes of freight traffic due to crimbo run up.
Less daylight hours leading to more fatigue.
Hysterical internet reporting by the authorities of every HGV incident.
The HGV test being not fit for purpose in the real world coupled with easier to drive vehicles allowing to many club plant pots to slip through the net and gain HGV entitlement.
To many of our beachwear attired cousins forking the job up.
The increase in dashcam drama queens, some whom I honestly believe deliberately try and create incidents for you tube.
Society in generals evolution of the entitled/snowflake generation who want everything yesterday and have no time to take a breath.
Not enough people realising that the UK roads can be a war zone at times but we are all on the same bloody side.
To much political correctness and not enough ■■■■. A tug a day keeps the road rage at bay, (3 tugs in my case).
Just my opinion, all debatable of course and I’m sure there’s more reasons.
Just about says it all
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That should totally be a government campaign - don’t succumb to road rage, have a ■■■■ instead.
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When I become king of the world this will be a legal requirement.
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Forget an apple a day , keeps the doctor away, now it’s a tug a day , keeps the doctor away .
Dipper_Dave:
When I become king of the world this will be a legal requirement.
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Yes put you on premod 
Dipper_Dave:
When I become king of the world this will be a legal requirement.
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It’s private, it’s clean, and anyway, I like it!
i remember the days you got your work went off and got on with it then used customers phone to contact the office then went to the next job no phone calls no pestering no timed delivery beyond am or pm my lot test every thing
then wonder why you never got a message err im driving
Yep, stress, rushing all have to be factors.
Office knows your driving but still they ring.
I.e.
Planner: “Morning dipper our number 1 driver [slim pickings at my place] the tracker says your going to be an hour late is it right.”
Me: “No you’ve got it set on cycle mode again.”
Planner: “Oops I’ll leave you to it.”
Me: “I have naked pictures of your wife”
Planner : “What!!!”
Me: “That’s the radio”
Planner: “OK I’ll leave you to it”.
Dipper_Dave:
Increase in inexperienced drivers being chucked in at the deep end by unscrupulous agencies.
The HGV test being not fit for purpose in the real world coupled with easier to drive vehicles allowing to many club plant pots to slip through the net and gain HGV entitlement.
I’ll go along with these.
The problems exacerbated by the industry’s headlong race to the bottom, can’t deskill the job quickly enough in order to…er why?, why would you deskill and dumb your operation down, it doesn’t make any sense when you look at it rationally, its a fix for today without a thought to the next 100/100000 days.
If you have a job that requires some nous, and you have to pay well and retain a certain standard of employee, and the job gets done year in year out, why on earth would you want to fix what was never broken in the first place, is it so any ever cheaper passing body can be hauled in and plonked on the driving seat, prat nav programmed, select D press the loud pedal and wheee off he goes, well how’s that scheme working out for you operators i wonder?
Have you operators inspected your fleets recently, seen the damage?, have you added up the bills you are attracting by taking any bugger who comes cheap enough, damage to own and customers assets, bridges 
, insurance costs, downtime costs due to neglect ■■■■ poor driving and sheer incompetence?
You have to lease and replace on a 3/5 yearly plan cos by years 3/5 your vehicles are bloody falling apart, have increased downtime and look 15 years old.
Taking the cheap option isn’t working out terribly well i would suggest, maybe try turning the clock back a bit by offering terms and conditions that mean you can cherry pick (including actually checking out those who apply histories 
), then treat your once again valued and content employees as adults and allowing them to take a pride in their work, and that also means not holding their hands for them when they don’t want it, nor dumbing their job down to idiot level because you, the management that is, decided to employ half wits and dumbed the job down the level of the worse fool that you dared to take on.
This works, if the job is worth keeping well chosen people look after it.
The solutions lie at management’s door, they have between them caused the race to the bottom, they willingly went along with increasingly dumb vehicles that any fool could drive, and seem surprised that an increasing number of fools are slipping through the net, who would simply not have wanted the job as it once was, the ball is in management’s court to fix it.
It can be fixed, it needs management to acknowledge the path they are now perilously close to the end of isn’t the right one after all.
Or we do a european union instead, where something is plainly not working we simply do even more of the same and kick the can down the road 