With a small rural lane that is the width of the truck,i have seen all week,these nutters coming at me at an estimated speed,i dont have a radar gun,of 50 mph,they do not attempt to slow down,and in most cases just squeeze by by the skin of their teeth,with inches to spare.
I can see them mouthing under their breath,like it is my fault they nearly write their precious cars off.Most times i will stop,or move slowly to let them pass.
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I enjoy it when they have to reverse, or try to, usually involves hitting the hedge about 20 times
They put the pedal to the metal,and hope for the best,it seems there is no attempt to brake,like an exocet missile aiming for its target.
“You shouldn’t be here you should be on the motorway!!!”
Yep the London luvvies now have a place in the country, and the rest of us oiks need to make way for their important lifesyles. Forget the fact that stuff needs to be collected from/delivered to their places in the country and oh yes farms, those big factories that give Waitrose and the rest their milk and eggs etc…
Best to just give the ■■■■■ a sorry marm, a nod and a tip of the cap, and get on your merry way.
A livestock wagon driver told me he got abuse for taking his truck down an unsuitable lane,the trucker told the mouthy car driver,what do you want me to do,move the farm.
Half of the car drivers drive on single track country roads oblivious of the fact that other vehicles use it from the opposite direction.Then they panic when they meet an oncoming vehicle.
If they can’t reverse,they shouldn’t have a licence.
I slowed right down to go round a tightish corner down a country lane, just as i turned in someone came flying round the corner followed by a long blast on the horn. How was it my fault that said car driver failed to anticipate the possibility that there could be a lorry coming round that is sitting on the white line.
At least we have evidence that we slowed to a stop if there was a collsion
Saamon,i was going to post something like what you have said,for example there is nobody on the road,and there is a tight spot or corner,the car will appear,and it is all my fault for delaying them,they have caused the problem,as my road positioning was in order,drivers of expensive cars seem to think they own the road.
Wasnt there talk of these hidden boxes in all vehicles,that charge for off peak use,then you get a bill,road tax abolished,the satelite works out where you are.At peak times,the cost would be more expensive,and the type of road or motorway would affect the bill.
toby1234abc:
Wasnt there talk of these hidden boxes in all vehicles,that charge for off peak use,then you get a bill,road tax abolished,the satelite works out where you are.At peak times,the cost would be more expensive,and the type of road or motorway would affect the bill.
Road charging, great idea, £10 per mile during the times of 6am -10am and 4pm-7pm 
HGVS excluded
Is it just me or do they always stop at the narrowest point in the lane, expecting you to be able to pass? 
Grayham:
Is it just me or do they always stop at the narrowest point in the lane, expecting you to be able to pass?
They usually drive past a passing place and then wait for you to back up for them.
the worst ones seem to be farmer jones wife takeing the kids to school
Dave the Renegade:
Grayham:
Is it just me or do they always stop at the narrowest point in the lane, expecting you to be able to pass?They usually drive past a passing place and then wait for you to back up for them.
Yep, they could be 2 metres from a passing place but expect you to reverse an artic with no view of whats behind you to the passing place you pased 3 miles ago 
What amuses me is when they just keep coming at you, drive straight past a wide bit where you could squeeze through, then stop and stare at you. Where do they think you’re going to go?? Even funnier is the look of terror on their face when they realise that they are the one nearest to a wide bit and therefore THEY have to reverse. Often it is quicker to reverse half a mile yourself than to wait for some emmet not used to our Cornish goat tracks of lanes to get their posh 4x4 out of the way. Rant over!
Having done milk tankers…I have experience of the time you have to wait for an awkward bastid to reverse.
I have never reversed, nor will I do so…Roll a ■■■, get out and smoke it, have a chat with the car driver, sometimes even talk to trees, that really freaks them out…That and the imaginary voices in your own head Slapped myself round the face one time, because I was swearing… Car drivers always seem eager to get out of your way when you do this 
Cant see what all the fuss is about with narrow lanes or single track roads. You want to try going from Ullapool to Durness and along the top to Scrabster with a 40 foot trailer when the tourists are about, especially the foreign ones. Also going down to Applecross used to be fun sometimes as well when a car comes the other way, but I think the further north you go the better the driving standard get, that includes trucks.
get it quite often i’m sorry to say ,
i saw the mini bus well before the corner so i stopped while she in ignorant bliss , fired around the bend saw me, hit the brakes then took my mirrors off before bouncing & scraping down the lane between the tree lined bank & my trailer . i hopped out to see if she was alright & got a right old earbashing about how she runs this lane every morning & has never seen me there before & so it must be my fault for the incedent 
but i’ve had this before with a fiesta driver she did the same & got her car wedged on top of the bank & broke her wrist in the process, but again it was my fault as she travelled that road every day to work & this had never happened before, & therefore my fault
best one was a cyclist who had a very colourfull language about me the lane & the size of the truck, so i just sat there while he half hopped, half cycled down the side of the lorry in cycle shorts , stinging himself silly on the nettles as he went
these amongst others , the worst ones are school bus drivers , they sit there miserable as sinn & wait for you to do something , best tactic is to reach for my flask,
or the reasonable aproach with car drivers , advise them to move , as if they go in the ditch, i can pull them out , if i go in the ditch my company will invoice them for a recovery vehicle & at a cost off £2000 + it then becomes their choice , it’s even got to the point where i’ve had to reverse the car for them 
Before the A30 was Dualed and there was the low bridge diversion - i often met other wagons coming the wrong way through the over height divesion as the west bound was only 10 miles and the east bound was 37 miles - they always seemed to think that even though i was in the right divesion i should reverse as i wasn’t from round there lol
cheers
Steve