Yesterday I had the misfortune to breakdown, causing a rather large tailback. Was only stuck on the Ladbrooke Grove junction, bang in the middle of rush hour, nothing could turn left for well over an hour and a half. Anyway why when your sat there with the hazards on do car drivers come and sit right on your rear and then start blasting the horn when you dont move when the lights go green, then get really pee
d off when your stood there laughing. One complete muppet in a Fiesta van actually sat there blasting his horn for five light changes!
If anybody on here was sat in the relavent chaos I do apologise, but watching the muppet brigade did cheer me up.
curious - what caused the vehicle to breakdown?
Lol some people are mongs
yeah…i once broke down on an island.was really amusing watching people park up behind.
Sounds like pure comedy. I wouldn’t mind being in a situation like that, just to see people getting so wound up
Stalling at the lights is bad enough, sitting there for 90 minutes though
Reminds me when I was HIAB’ing a car from a ditch at a T junction and lit up like a Christmas tree with a car hanging off the hook this lady pulled through the cones and sat behind the truck waiting to turn left!
one of the worst cases of blindness I ever witnessed was when a inside tyre went on a obviously heavy scrap carrying roro rigid…just as a dive bomber squeezed in behind.
so I`m thinking the remaining tyre aint gonna last long,on the now badly listing lorry,and drop back sharpish.
not the car driver though…stuck right up his arris…he was.
15 seconds later…BANG
ROG:
curious - what caused the vehicle to breakdown?
We have blowing equipment on Rog, and the onboard computer decided the blower was on so wouldn`t select any gears.
dowahdiddyman:
ROG:
curious - what caused the vehicle to breakdown?We have blowing equipment on Rog, and the onboard computer decided the blower was on so wouldn`t select any gears.
Don’t you just love computers
I live on a main road and brought my truck home a few times when I’ve been due a break in the area.
I can’t think of anytime that I’ve gone to return to my truck when there hasn’t been a queue of cars sat behind it waiting for it to move.
similar thing happened to me year ago going round Norwich ring road, I could feel that the truck was going to stop, so I managed to get over the other side of a set of lights and park on the left hand side just before the 2 lanes merged back into 1.
It was a summers evening, so good visibility and very light traffic. While waiting for recovery I couldn’t believe how many driver sat at the lights looking at the truck and then when the light went green actually pull up behind me.
It must of meant that in the time they sat there waiting for the light to change they haven’t looked or twiged that the truck on the other side of the lights isn’t moving. Which does at least confirm my theory that many drivers don’t look much further than the end of the bonnet.
Reference the title …
Did you know that Stevie Wonder was taught to drive his own car from his house to the gates and back by timing and engine pitch/sound ? Can you imagine waiting at the gate and have him turn up and say “Hop in”
Has anyone heard of a warning triangle?
steelgoon:
Has anyone heard of a warning triangle?
If they can’t see the back of a truck, with hazard light flashing away, or in the case of the recovery guys beacons, then very little chance of them seeing a warning triangle.
Mr Maggoo car driving muppets that drive in the Lgv parking area as if the signs are not big enough.
There is also a bit of a clue in the Msa .As you drive in you will see lots and lots of little cars parked close together as they get lonely.
This patch of tarmac is called a car park.A sign to let you know in case you forget.
The look on their faces realising they are in a truck park is comic genius with face pulling and arm/hands gesticulating.
While reversing trailers in Portugal car drivers would drive up to the rear of the trailer at speed.
They then lean on the horn for ages with that Latin temper they have.
I jyst shrug at them and put it down to all the expressos they drink all day and til late at night.
muckles:
steelgoon:
Has anyone heard of a warning triangle?If they can’t see the back of a truck, with hazard light flashing away, or in the case of the recovery guys beacons, then very little chance of them seeing a warning triangle.
Why would I put a warning triangle behind a legally parked vehicle?