Pulled off the A1 at Colsterworth yesterday at about 6am for a bit of brekker. As I came off the roundabout just before the truckstop I came face to face with Monsieur Phillippe Phlopp heading towards me on my side of the road. He realised at the same time as me, anchored up, reversed about 50 yards (no hazards on), changed lanes and drove off. No wave of apology, nor even a Gallic shrug. But the girl who served me - who had witnessed what happened - said it’s almost an HOURLY occurrence…scary! Good brekker mind.
chinese6:
Pulled off the A1 at Colsterworth yesterday at about 6am for a bit of brekker. As I came off the roundabout just before the truckstop I came face to face with Monsieur Phillippe Phlopp heading towards me on my side of the road. He realised at the same time as me, anchored up, reversed about 50 yards (no hazards on), changed lanes and drove off. No wave of apology, nor even a Gallic shrug. But the girl who served me - who had witnessed what happened - said it’s almost an HOURLY occurrence…scary! Good brekker mind.
Driver from group known for driving badly drives badly, would you believe it.
And no professional UK driver has ever left a premises in France(please insert country to suit) and driven on the wrong side of the road…
Stones and greenhouses.
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And no professional UK driver has ever left a premises in France(please insert country to suit) and driven on the wrong side of the road…Stones and greenhouses.
Agreed. The first roundabout off the boat was a challenge to me all those years ago. As were industrial estates after tipping for some reason…
Only country that driver goes to that drives on the left I expect…
Oh yes i have done that…
I pulled out of an industrial estate in France and as i drove down the minor road (luckily) to the main road i met a pug 205 coming towards me, i thought look at this ■■■■ on the wrong side of the road…
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chinese6:
Pulled off the A1 at Colsterworth yesterday at about 6am for a bit of brekker. As I came off the roundabout just before the truckstop I came face to face with Monsieur Phillippe Phlopp heading towards me on my side of the road. He realised at the same time as me, anchored up, reversed about 50 yards (no hazards on), changed lanes and drove off. No wave of apology, nor even a Gallic shrug. But the girl who served me - who had witnessed what happened - said it’s almost an HOURLY occurrence…scary! Good brekker mind.
Maybe he is one of the few that actually knows when hazard warning lights should and should not be used. 
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And no professional UK driver has ever left a premises in France(please insert country to suit) and driven on the wrong side of the road…Stones and greenhouses.
Exactly…I’ve done it briefly over there, but to make it even more stupid it was in a left ■■■■■■. 
(I see the anti foreign stance on here includes the French as well as the EEs now eh 
…quote; driver from group known for driving badly.
If it was TSA for eg, he may well have been a Brit on an off day )
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And no professional UK driver has ever left a premises in France(please insert country to suit) and driven on the wrong side of the road…Stones and greenhouses.
A couple of miles on the wrong side of the road in an industrial area of Switzerland is my worst incident, the most stupid however was in my car on the way home from our yard having spent the previous 6 weeks running between Holland and Denmark. I came to the end of a 2 lane off slip to a T junction, turned right but automatically went straight into the right lane. My Dutch truck driver passenger even said “hey look at that ■■■■ coming towards us in the wrong lane” !!
robroy:
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And no professional UK driver has ever left a premises in France(please insert country to suit) and driven on the wrong side of the road…Stones and greenhouses.
Exactly…I’ve done it briefly over there, but to make it even more stupid it was in a left ■■■■■■.
(I see the anti foreign stance on here includes the French as well as the EEs now eh
If it was TSA for eg, he may well have been a Brit on an off day )
The standard of driving from the Eastern lot is terrible as a rule, not an exception.
The French are French, they should be abused at any opportunity.
Anyone who hasn’t driven the wrong side is either
A. Never been over the water.
B. A liar.
Tgtrucker:
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And no professional UK driver has ever left a premises in France(please insert country to suit) and driven on the wrong side of the road…Stones and greenhouses.
A couple of miles on the wrong side of the road in an industrial area of Switzerland is my worst incident, the most stupid however was in my car on the way home from our yard having spent the previous 6 weeks running between Holland and Denmark. I came to the end of a 2 lane off slip to a T junction, turned right but automatically went straight into the right lane. My Dutch truck driver passenger even said “hey look at that [zb] coming towards us in the wrong lane” !!
Yes, I’ve done that, not only driven on the left when I should have been driving on the right, but also driven off on the right back in the UK after a spell on the mainland. 
The worst for me was leaving home one morning and driving over the rail bridge out of our estate up to the main rd , turned left then proceeded for 3/4 mile to the traffic lights on the A40 at that point I realised that I was on the wrong side of the road .
I had returned the day before from driving in Germany for the past month .
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TheUncaringCowboy:
robroy:
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And no professional UK driver has ever left a premises in France(please insert country to suit) and driven on the wrong side of the road…Stones and greenhouses.
Exactly…I’ve done it briefly over there, but to make it even more stupid it was in a left ■■■■■■.
(I see the anti foreign stance on here includes the French as well as the EEs now eh
If it was TSA for eg, he may well have been a Brit on an off day )The French are French, they should be abused at any opportunity.
Ok, fair enough…good point. 
I lived and worked in Germany for a number of years and can say, hand on my heart that I’ve never driven on the wrong side of the road in Euroland.
My problems came when I returned to Blighty, relaxed a little and then turned right at a
T junction! That’s where it all went wrong your Honour.
I was once asked to drive on the wrong side of a road on lodge farm in northampton for a photo shoot, to simulate driving in europe, he got a short answer.
tonyj105:
I was once asked to drive on the wrong side of a road on lodge farm in northampton for a photo shoot, to simulate driving in europe, he got a short answer.
^^^^^^^^
was your answer.“how much,and cash only please” ■■
I once came out the services on the motorcycle on the A26 in France and headed back up the off ramp I’d previously come off
Yep late at night pretty tired and trying to find a space I drove out of another full up truck stop in Austria and turned left and headed for the roundabout on the wrong side before a car coming the other way flashed and beeped with enough time for me to move on to the correct side for taking the road about
In my defence I was also dealing with my air con pod that had broke and was leaking water on top of me 
id imagine everyone has done it at some point.
ive driven the wrong way down a dual carrigeway in holland for a few miles in the middle of the night and now and again coming out of industrial estates.
there is always the add on version of being away for a month then nearly taking out a bus load of kittens and nuns on a roundabout the 1st morning you wake up in england and go to tip.
the maoster:
I lived and worked in Germany for a number of years and can say, hand on my heart that I’ve never driven on the wrong side of the road in Euroland.My problems came when I returned to Blighty, relaxed a little and then turned right at a
T junction! That’s where it all went wrong your Honour.
This. I will always remember the look on the blokes face in Portishead 