maybe be the only happy medium would be reg plates on a bike so to make them accountable, its mainly at lights i find because some of them do ignore them or creep along nearside but will that do any good either
Suedehead:
Why don"t they send the goods by rail …or in one of them there lickle elecrtic vans
What use is a electric van some of the superstores can have 4 full loads aday and that’s just fresh goods.
I’d be more than happy if artics were totally banned from London, I hate going to the place.
This video just shows what cyclists are like in London, you see it all the time, then they bleat and cry when someone gets hurt or even worse killed. I’d bet this clown wouldn’t have stopped for the red light either …
hiya .the bike riders a knob full stop.
i’ll say this but you’ll not believe me . when i come of the road i worked at tesco,s for 15 weeks
up to christmas…just 2 nights a week unloading lorries…it was quite easy just unloading cages
onto a dock and reloading with empty cages or cages full of cardboard. one monday night before
christmas day(wednesday) i unloaded 17x40ft’ers 5x4 wheeler bread lorries and 1x40ft load of milk.
this was just an average size store near Chester…when i went home at 7am most of the shelves
was empty …would you believe so much food passed through a building in a day…all in trollies into
car boots…you say why have large lorries in city centres…
if you used Transits there’d be 200 vans per night at the store i worked at.
on a normal night we’d have 12 tons of fresh milk… 2x4 wheeler vans of bread and 8x40 ft’ers.
of general foods and cleaning products you need to work on a supermarket back door to see how
much stock passes through a store. it was said £60,000 per hour passed through the 15 tills at peak
time saturday afternoon. that was over 12 years ago…i bet you don’t believe me do you!!!
a driver at Tesco Scunthorpe told me they have 2x40 loads of toilet and kitchen rolls everyday
that would be a few transit loads
John
tango boy:
Agency
and how do you know the driver was agency
truckman020:
tango boy:
Agencyand how do you know the driver was agency
IT WAS A JOKE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON’T GET UPSET IF YOU ARE AN AGENCY DRIVER IM SO SO SORRY 
truckman020:
tango boy:
Agencyand how do you know the driver was agency
Whooooshh 
I reckon it was an agency driver cycling to work… 
I’d say the Tesco lorry , was watching the nearside mirror that much that he nearly missed the fact the van in front had stopped, so he pulled in and ‘jumped the red’ to avoid a collision.
I will also add though, that the cyclist also ‘jumped the red’ in an attempt in my view, to stay in danger for longer for the footage.
Not the best driving by the Tesco wagon, but we don’t know what weight he was running etc
Old rule - no good being right if you’re dead.
The cyclist is undoubtedly a Darwin award waiting to happen.
But the Tescos driver hardly covered himself in glory. I drive in London everyday and you have to be a bit cuter than he was.
The Tesco driver shouldn’t have changed lanes to run a red light but he also should have been more aware of the vehicles in front stopping for the lights.
They were both in the wrong, the cyclist more so and he should have known better than to go up the blind side of a truck especially at the speed he was cycling
Must be fantastic to be perfect, So many perfect drivers on one forum site.
Yet to see any of them in London in the real world.
karl67:
Must be fantastic to be perfect, So many perfect drivers on one forum site.
Yet to see any of them in London in the real world.
+1 its easy being perfect when your an armchair Viking…funny how its a different world when your looking at it through the windscreen??
dieseldog999:
karl67:
Must be fantastic to be perfect, So many perfect drivers on one forum site.
Yet to see any of them in London in the real world.+1 its easy being perfect when your an armchair Viking…funny how its a different world when your looking at it through the windscreen??
Blimey you pair don’t set the bar very high do you.
Don’t have to be perfect not to go through a traffic light indicating vehices should stop.
Cyclist is of course asking for trouble and great work by the Tesco driver to deliver… every little helps.
Maybe he didn’t want to stop sharp because of all the telemetry crap installed and didn’t fancy a debrief because of a harsh braking event. As tongue in cheek as it may sound I’m sure systems that monitor driving like this may also have a negative effect on driver behaviour.
m1cks:
Maybe he didn’t want to stop sharp because of all the telemetry crap installed and didn’t fancy a debrief because of a harsh braking event. As tongue in cheek as it may sound I’m sure systems that monitor driving like this may also have a negative effect on driver behaviour.
+1 on this.
Fuel saving is a hot topic at the moment with the company I work for and their mantra is use CC whenever possible and set it 2kph below the limiter speed, which is fair enough but in arears where traffic is dense and hazards are high fuel saving for me is out the window and CC is not used on single carriageways (well unless its a long clear stretch).
Too much interference can distract drivers from their primary objective which is to get load from A to B as safely as possible, secondary objective is to maximise earnings and last objective is to do so as economically as possible.
A decent M’way or DC gives the option to lift and coast or eco roll or just pop the bugger in neutral to see how fast she will go downhill but SC’s are a whole new ball game as with city traffic lane discipline and forward planning / roadcraft are essential, this may mean stopping and being a nuisance to let other vunerable traffic through, i.e. cyclists…
Nobody’s perfect although we have occasional moments of perfection, if I was the Tesco driver I would have stopped at the lights, or would I- its very hard to critique when other road users can go out of their way to kill themselves.
Havin driven many different types of vehicles(class 1, bulldozers, vans, tractors etc) and someone who likes to cycle at weekends(if my lungs can take it)
People should learn the road from the bottom up, to get a prospective from all points.
When cycling I have an understanding of what the lorry driver is doing or may do etc.
Also the car drivers etc.
I don’t jump lights or jump on too the pavement etc. I am on the highway just like the rest of the vehicles. Abide by the law.
When on my bike, my past experiences have given me respect for other road users etc and visa versa.
A big valuable lesson I can assure you.
If Tesco was pulling into the left there, he’d have been checking his mirror long before, by which point the cyclist was only approaching the back left side of the trailer.
I reckon Tesco performed a “shut out” maneuver there. 
Are we not talking about a 125cc bike here, rather than a pushbike btw?
F-reds:
The cyclist is undoubtedly a Darwin award waiting to happen.But the Tescos driver hardly covered himself in glory. I drive in London everyday and you have to be a bit cuter than he was.
+1
Winseer:
If Tesco was pulling into the left there, he’d have been checking his mirror long before, by which point the cyclist was only approaching the back left side of the trailer.I reckon Tesco performed a “shut out” maneuver there.
Are we not talking about a 125cc bike here, rather than a pushbike btw?
No it was a pushbike. At the very end he stops and looks down at his wheel, definatley a push bike. Also confirmed in his youtube comments.
The driver left it very late for a lane change and by the time he would have looked over the cyclist was firmly in his blind spot.