Driver for a large firm, 3 letters, orange and white livery, major haulier of newspapers…
Route included tonight M25 to M11 to A11, around 1am-ish.
Next time you fancy changing lanes, please do so AFTER you have passed my truck since it was flippin’ freezing reaching out through my window on the M25 to pull my mirror back from pointing forward, back to its natural position. It also now has a lovely smear of orange curtain colourant on the glass, as does my wind deflector (also got chips in from the curtain straps), and various parts of my trailer for the evening.
I was the chap who joined at the A10 where the lanes are narrow and the green double-line cats-eyes are the lane markers. you were the moron who decided not to stay in yer own lane, and squeeze me toward the near-side temporary barriers.
ps - horn held on and panic-stricken flashing of headlight from a lorry you’re alongside usually suggests something is slightly wrong.
I recognise you weren’t getting a rumble from your tyres on the cats-eyes to bring you to your senses - something to do with being COMPLETELY across them!
I apologise for not being able to brake but I feared any potential deviation of line from sudden slowing may result in my bodywork latching onto your trailer and a rather messy intertwining of machinery would follow.
I also realise you were transfixed on the gatso on the near side and more concerned with avoiding a ticket than potentiall killing a fellow driver.
Unfortunately I couldn’t call your employer with your reg number since your plate light was inoperational and you were long gone thanks to speeding through the roadworks once you’d passed the camera.
Thank you, if you DO read this, for testing my adrenal glands for the night. I’m mighty glad they work! I’d never have known without your driving!
Please ignore my concerns if Clyde the Orangutan was driving that stint.
He or she isnt goign to want to be dealing with phone calls from irate members of the public and they will have some idea of who was on that road at the time. They might not publically admit that they know who it was, but chances are they’ll still pull the driver in and swear at them a bit.
PS. I’m happy to name and shame the company, they send a bad driver out in a vehicle with their livery then they’re doing it them selves anyway!
I’d be tempted to ring them, If you can identify the time and place then I’m sure they can trace which vehicle it was via the tracking system - they can do it with our wagons which have the same system I believe as we used to be run by TNT.
ps, are you the same El Gordo who has had me up all night with that stupid plane question on Visordown■■? I’m Vtrsteve btw
I`ve had a poxy week as well…with regards to drivers attitudes…
coming down the M1 as usual…i decided to move into the middle lane to let fellow truckers out of the slip road…only for them to put the foot down and leave me in the middle lane…so i`m gonna stop giving way on slip roads in future.
Again down the M1…0300 hrs…music on …cruise control on (56mph)…when a big green parcel machine drawbar wants to overtake…well he cant…and this irate dutchman didnt want to sit behind him…tough ■■■■ i thought…i aint taking the cruise control off…so we sat there for ages…till we got to a downward hill…then the drawbar goes like a rocket…and this dutchman slows down next to me…gives the hand signals…and blows his horn…so i wonder why these morons expect me to have to slow down …if you havnt got the speed…stay behind…
don’t forget that despite the answer from a fella with an aeronautics degree on about page 2 or 3 it’s now on page 15, on the maximum posts-per-page setting, so about page 50 for many
never before have I managed to divide the imaginations or intellects of a forum so dramatically
el gordo 78:
Driver for a large firm, 3 letters, orange and white livery, major haulier of newspapers…
Route included tonight M25 to M11 to A11, around 1am-ish.
Next time you fancy changing lanes, please do so AFTER you have passed my truck since it was flippin’ freezing reaching out through my window on the M25 to pull my mirror back from pointing forward, back to its natural position. It also now has a lovely smear of orange curtain colourant on the glass, as does my wind deflector (also got chips in from the curtain straps), and various parts of my trailer for the evening.
I was the chap who joined at the A10 where the lanes are narrow and the green double-line cats-eyes are the lane markers. you were the moron who decided not to stay in yer own lane, and squeeze me toward the near-side temporary barriers.
ps - horn held on and panic-stricken flashing of headlight from a lorry you’re alongside usually suggests something is slightly wrong.
I recognise you weren’t getting a rumble from your tyres on the cats-eyes to bring you to your senses - something to do with being COMPLETELY across them!
I apologise for not being able to brake but I feared any potential deviation of line from sudden slowing may result in my bodywork latching onto your trailer and a rather messy intertwining of machinery would follow.
I also realise you were transfixed on the gatso on the near side and more concerned with avoiding a ticket than potentiall killing a fellow driver.
Unfortunately I couldn’t call your employer with your reg number since your plate light was inoperational and you were long gone thanks to speeding through the roadworks once you’d passed the camera.
Thank you, if you DO read this, for testing my adrenal glands for the night. I’m mighty glad they work! I’d never have known without your driving!
Please ignore my concerns if Clyde the Orangutan was driving that stint.
In the future give TNT driver’s a wide berth . Accident prone company shall i say !!!
99.9% of ther driver’s are a bit stir crazy …Must be the pressure , or working for that quarterly BONUS …
A spate of accident’s a few year’s ago i remembered at some road work’s all involved TNT vehicles( no immediate TNT depot ) … Some of them even died for it !!!
Again down the M1…0300 hrs…music on …cruise control on (56mph)…when a big green parcel machine drawbar wants to overtake…well he cant…and
I totally agree, I dont understand how some ‘so called’ proffesional drivers dont understand that they are slipstreaming you when behind and when they pull out they lose that assistance.
TNT, I seem to remember they got started over here by busting the printers strike (80’s), Im not saying I supported the strike but they flew about with police escorts when no UK haulage company would touch the work. It was common that no driver would flash in a TNT truck in the '90’s.
I also rarely move over for another wagon to come on from the sliproad now, unless he is obviously pulling a lot of weight at low speed, I prefer to back off a touch and leave a gap as I too have been left sitting in the middle lane looking like a pillock.
Ooooh I feel better now thats off my chest.
Phil
truckyboy:
I`ve had a poxy week as well…with regards to drivers attitudes…
coming down the M1 as usual…i decided to move into the middle lane to let fellow truckers out of the slip road…only for them to put the foot down and leave me in the middle lane…so i`m gonna stop giving way on slip roads in future.
Can’t see the problem there, if he’s got the speed let him get out of the way and be gone.
truckyboy:
2. Again down the M1…0300 hrs…music on …cruise control on (56mph)…when a big green parcel machine drawbar wants to overtake…well he cant…and this irate dutchman didnt want to sit behind him…tough [zb] i thought…i aint taking the cruise control off…so we sat there for ages…till we got to a downward hill…then the drawbar goes like a rocket…and this dutchman slows down next to me…gives the hand signals…and blows his horn…so i wonder why these morons expect me to have to slow down …if you havnt got the speed…stay behind…
What sall i say?
Come Monday evening to Work and have new Tyres on Poweraxle replaced as someone left with two over the weekend,during Security slept in Office,which was contracted by Company as a Weekend earlier some left with two Lorries filled with Freight from our Warehouse
Come Monday evening to Work and have new Tyres on Poeraxle replaced as someone left with two over the weekend,during Security slept in Office,which was contracted by Company as a Weekend earlier some left with two Lorries filled with Freight from our Warehouse
bloody hell fred where do you work first there gangsters everywhere now there nicking wheels. let me know so i can park as far away as posible
