They left you name of the list rob, get in touch with david he will sort it
Sorry to revive this, especially when all of this sort of stuff happens to everyone everyday nowadays anyhow.
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I know the job is nearly ā ā ā ā ed already, but when we stop calling out all this crap because itās āānormalāā and āāthe done thingāā that is the day the job is COMPLETELY ā ā ā ā ed.
Soā¦ a big shout out to the prick in the 4 wheeler yesterday on the M5 n/b just south of Bristol, sat approaching me in the middle lane to overtake me.
Me approaching a slow moving truck, also to overtake, but being a considerate driver, I did not pull out in front of him, but gave him an adequately early signal waiting for his expected polite flash to let me outā¦and waited.
Nopeā¦, he speeded up and watched me approach the trailerās back doors, giving me 2 options, brake up, or bury myself in the trailer.
Looked right at him (sat there in his hi viz ākin vest ) and gave him (rightly or wrongly) the coffee shaker gesture, to which he gave me a gormless look of oblivion to my point, and returned the hand gesture.
As thread titleā¦āāDrivers today wtfā'.
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You followed the rules, i would have pulled out and put the responsibilities on him
A good driver is always looking ahead no matter how far behind
Anticipate and adjust the situation if coming from behind
always approach from the side with the headlights
in all seriousness if rob (as it is his situation we are discussing) had let go of the loud pedal the coffee shaker (my new phrase for that one btw) in the middle lane would of probably slowed down too its their usual game
Then he would have come on this thread saying..
āāSome ā ā ā ā pulled out in front of me yesterdayāā 
Tbf I had the vehicle in front well anticipated, I just assumed the guy was a āāproper driverāā seen me well ahead and just flashed me outā¦itās what we all used to do as Iām sure you know.
Mountain molehill situationā¦but just making a point.
Standard practice more and more these days. But then theirās a lot more bellends on the road now. Honestly donāt know how you day driverās hack it 
Just a bit of common courtesy is long gone.
Yep, gone to join its brother, common sense.
After 25 years class 1 Rob & 15 of those running my own Haulage Firm. Five of those years, direct for Tesco Distribution before Eddie took the lot for buttons. I am seriously thinking of driving a van for Ā£14 ish, per hour. Either that or moving away from urban areas to the remote sticks of England & going full āOld Skoolā. Perhaps back to the land of my Fore Fathers, the Emerald Isle. Maybe I am being dramatic, but I think this country of my birth is not what it once was. That makes me sad.
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Yep.. both the job and the country aināt what it was sadly.
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The amount of BS you have to go through to register with Agencies nowadays is unbelievable. I feel like I am applying to be Prime Minister of the Country.
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L P Hartley:
āThe past is a foreign countryā they do things differently thereā
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^^^ great fly fisherman, rubbish poet.
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It takes an hour or more to fill in an agency form, any information needed on the paperwork that you donāt take with you means going back to complete the form, anyone would think itās an immigration form to emigrate to Australia or America with the amount of questions, then the tachograph rules tests and some Highway Code questions to complete.
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yeah but if your not english you dont have toworry about the ni and tax bit
So looks like the Scots, Welsh and Irish donāt need to pay anything 
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Ayeā¦Nor the Britishā¦..
Anyway MY passport says United Kingdom, so I must be a foreigner!
wouldnt know we tend to keep the riff raff out of the south east
Of course. Just the upper echelons there.
Only those that can afford privately chartered boatsā¦.
yep and we send em to the rest of the country. of course some might say if any are kept here they must be a better caliber. we only keep the women and children
Heard about that I think on my familiarization. The old trucker showing me the ropes tested me verbally on what Iād do if the trailer started rolling back (assuming Iād not air-braked the unit?) I said Iād pull the connections to which of course he agreed. Then brought it up saying the guy should have pulled the air-suzzy instead of jumping off the catwalk to try and race to the brake button where he got crushed. Not sure if that ās the same accident, but I do recall him mentioning it happened at an Argos site.