10-08:
Muckaway:
Re seeing old vehicles still working, I saw an A reg F7 flatbed on the A34 near Oxford earlier. A.Rickward was the name on the doors.I think I saw that today was it green?
Yes, with faded white signwriting. I wonder what makes people run such old stuff? Reliability? Enthusiast?
…Very tight?
Few things make my blood boil on the road, but the winner, by far, is when lanes merge into one and a chancer in a car tries desperately to get around you, but has left it too late… but refuses to stop even at the crucial moment that you’re both about to collide. Twice in the last fortnight a car has forced me to brake hard or swerve so he can cut in. If I hadn’t, then a collision definitely would have occurred. I got two fingers flashed at me on the first one.
Why don’t you just carry on and teach him a lesson? I hear you say.
Because as a lorry driver I am certain 100% of the responsibility would fall onto me and I really don’t need to deal with it all. I’ve got way more to lose.
I’ll never understand what makes a car driver confident he can pick a fight with a 44 ton artic and win. I’ll also never understand why, as a driver who is really quite good at letting things go and not letting his blood pressure rise, why this one particular act enrages me so much I have to stop for a couple of moments to calm down. I think it is because it is the equivalent of literally pushing somebody out of the way whilst walking in the street.
ezydriver:
Few things make my blood boil on the road, but the winner, by far, is when lanes merge into one and a chancer in a car tries desperately to get around you, but has left it too late… but refuses to stop even at the crucial moment that you’re both about to collide. Twice in the last fortnight a car has forced me to brake hard or swerve so he can cut in. If I hadn’t, then a collision definitely would have occurred.
When I started driving trucks I was always adamant that they would not get in but it did not take long to realise that they were easy to spot in advance and that leaving them room to do their silly antics was far less stressful for all as well as being a ■■■■ site safer
I have never been in a conflict situation since I started doing that be it in car or truck
Seeing that such a possible situation might occur I leave loads of room in front for the numpties if one or two come along
All this reminds me of the Honda advert which starts with cars hate tractors ?
ezydriver:
Few things make my blood boil on the road, but the winner, by far, is when lanes merge into one and a chancer in a car tries desperately to get around you, but has left it too late… but refuses to stop even at the crucial moment that you’re both about to collide. Twice in the last fortnight a car has forced me to brake hard or swerve so he can cut in. If I hadn’t, then a collision definitely would have occurred. I got two fingers flashed at me on the first one.Why don’t you just carry on and teach him a lesson? I hear you say.
Because as a lorry driver I am certain 100% of the responsibility would fall onto me and I really don’t need to deal with it all. I’ve got way more to lose.
I’ll never understand what makes a car driver confident he can pick a fight with a 44 ton artic and win. I’ll also never understand why, as a driver who is really quite good at letting things go and not letting his blood pressure rise, why this one particular act enrages me so much I have to stop for a couple of moments to calm down. I think it is because it is the equivalent of literally pushing somebody out of the way whilst walking in the street.
Totally agree, happens all the time. Just think they can push you off the road and when i shout at them, one, he got out of his car swore at me and banged his fist onto the cab door. I just said GOT YOU ON VIDEO MATE.
Winseer:
10-08:
Saaamon:
Winseer:
Saaamon:
English lorry drivers who look down their noses at those driving foreign trucks.I thought as English drivers in England, we all drive foreign trucks these days!
I think the last English trucks I drove were Leyland road trains & seddons back in the 1990’s
Even UK showman are starting to use the odd foreign made lorry now.
But that’s only because a Volvo will last you a good 20-30 years
Even those pi key wagons that pull the fairground stuff are 90’s motors. It’s been ages since I’ve seen a wagon older than a S reg (1996?) on the roads anywhere… Are there really any 20-30 year old tractors out there, or is this something I’d have to pop up to the outer Hebrides to see?
Fairground people are not pi keys, they are Showmen a BIG difference, they belong to the showmens guild which is very strict about what they can and cannot do. 99% of Showmen are honourable, Not pi keys.
Muckaway:
10-08:
Muckaway:
Re seeing old vehicles still working, I saw an A reg F7 flatbed on the A34 near Oxford earlier. A.Rickward was the name on the doors.I think I saw that today was it green?
Yes, with faded white signwriting. I wonder what makes people run such old stuff? Reliability? Enthusiast?
…Very tight?
If it still works why replace it? It’s probably not used every day. We’ve got a 20 year old 7.5 tonner we still use for small jobs. Even get people coming in the yard trying to buy it and you have to say no we need it. 
I can’t stand it when people speed up when you overtake them on the flat, don’t mind letting it roll downhill, you pull back in then they slow down again.
Just want to slap them with a wet fish.
Silver_Surfer:
I can’t stand it when people speed up when you overtake them on the flat, don’t mind letting it roll downhill, you pull back in then they slow down again.Just want to slap them with a wet fish.
What about car drivers who try to enforce the 40mph for lorries? You catch up something like a Toyota Pious or Rover 45 or other naff vehicle only the self righteous will drive, and they slow to 40 because they know that’s what you should be doing. Get to a dual carriageway and they hold 50 until you try to overtake, when they then will increase to 55-60. Pull back in and down they go to 50 and when the dc ends on come the brake lights.
Sort of people that start up neighbourhood watch just so they can have an excuse to curtain twitch.
The dive bombers that sit behind you for five miles or more then at the last 300 to 400 metres over take a truck to exit the motorway nearly hitting the front of the truck as they side sweep at high speed, it must be a national sport or hobby, as i see it daily.Lorry drivers that flash in cars and small vans, what is the point in that.?
The squeeze points at Stonhenge at both sides when the dual track ends to single track, car drivers can see it will go to one lane but they insist on pushing past stationary or slow moving traffic to get to the end of the queue.
Ilminster on the A303 the same as above.
toby1234abc:
Stonehenge…A303
Car drivers who slam their brakes on when they see a pile of rocks in a field. 
toby1234abc:
The dive bombers that sit behind you for five miles or more then at the last 300 to 400 metres over take a truck to exit the motorway nearly hitting the front of the truck as they side sweep at high speed, it must be a national sport or hobby, as i see it daily.Lorry drivers that flash in cars and small vans, what is the point in that.?
The squeeze points at Stonhenge at both sides when the dual track ends to single track, car drivers can see it will go to one lane but they insist on pushing past stationary or slow moving traffic to get to the end of the queue.
Ilminster on the A303 the same as above.
If I see a car or van that appears to be struggling to pass or is unsure how long there car is and there’s traffic approaching at a pace, I’ll flash them in, Madness not to.
