Dutch Prat

[jamiemufu]

Jamiemufu:

Dipper_Dave:

IndigoJo:
I saw a yMaritime driver on the M25 the other day (Thursday I think), between Cobham services and J10, who was trying to overtake me rather than slow down for a minute or so until he was on the A3. He also pulled up right behind the car in front until he had just enough room to pull in. I tweeted his registration number to Maritime, they asked me to get in touch.

Sure your kidding.
We have all experienced bad driving and dare I say had bad moments ourselves but to act like some self appointed drama queen pretend copper and report a fellow steering wheel attendant for a non event takes things to a whole new level.

I understand where you are coming from but this general attitude towards bad and possibly dangerous driving does not help at all. I for one think 1 death caused by HGV accident is too much. There are very inconsiderate and dangerous drivers out there that very well may cause suchba death by the way they drive. Its up to us to try and stop or at least negate the chance of this happening. I for one will report anyone who I think is dangerous on the road. And I feel like I am doing my bit. I dont have a dash cam. So I dont go round emailing so called footage to endless companies. I know this is a slight exaggeration on this maritime scenario but you get my drift. Its far too easy to kill someone at 44t, and people drive round like total twonks untill its too late.If a dangerous driver has been complained about enough times then clearly get him off the road.

This type of driver just shows how low the standards have fallen in this industry. The only reason people like you want to go around reporting other drivers is to make yourself feel important.
It beggars belief what some people are capable of.
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I dont want to and I dont go out of my way to do so. I also said dangerous driving. Not a misjudgement or mistake. There is a big difference between dangerous driving and general misjudgements or mistakes. This forum lately is filled with posts about about standards of driving. Very few in my opinion are dangerous. Of course I make mistakes and misjudge things. What im saying is people like yourself with that attitude won’t help anything and just let dangerous drivers get away with murder. The Dutch say should ger reported. The maritime one, should not
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So what gives you the knowledge and qualifications to judge what is dangerous driving and what is not are you a police officer or just a self appointed one I guess it’s the later.
Get off your high horse get on with your job and let the authorities do there job.
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I carry petrol in tanks. So generally I try to be bit mote careful and drive the safest and best to my ability. Clearly something you dont understand. I wont come back with anything else. Pointless. But we are all entitled to our opinion but you see that as an excuse to basically insult and belittle anyone who doesn’t agree with you. Have fun telling stories waiting in RDC’s.

[dipper_dave]

Blimey I hope some of you lot are better at driving than at quoting.
I have little time for self righteous squealers who delusionally believe they are performing a public duty by acting as a stool pidgeon and tweeting about fellow motorists then feeling the need to tell everyone about it.

Bugger me if I felt the need to report every dodgy motorist out there on social media sites I would be on facepalm or twunter all day, think of the children my arse, rubbin their ego more like.

Course if I come across someone driving in a suicidal fashion I may join the squealer club but to date most things I have witnessed are standard bad judgement non events, ive even had a few myself.

[beetee07]

Jamiemufu:

Jamiemufu:

Dipper_Dave:

IndigoJo:
I saw a yMaritime driver on the M25 the other day (Thursday I think), between Cobham services and J10, who was trying to overtake me rather than slow down for a minute or so until he was on the A3. He also pulled up right behind the car in front until he had just enough room to pull in. I tweeted his registration number to Maritime, they asked me to get in touch.

Sure your kidding.
We have all experienced bad driving and dare I say had bad moments ourselves but to act like some self appointed drama queen pretend copper and report a fellow steering wheel attendant for a non event takes things to a whole new level.

I understand where you are coming from but this general attitude towards bad and possibly dangerous driving does not help at all. I for one think 1 death caused by HGV accident is too much. There are very inconsiderate and dangerous drivers out there that very well may cause suchba death by the way they drive. Its up to us to try and stop or at least negate the chance of this happening. I for one will report anyone who I think is dangerous on the road. And I feel like I am doing my bit. I dont have a dash cam. So I dont go round emailing so called footage to endless companies. I know this is a slight exaggeration on this maritime scenario but you get my drift. Its far too easy to kill someone at 44t, and people drive round like total twonks untill its too late.If a dangerous driver has been complained about enough times then clearly get him off the road.

This type of driver just shows how low the standards have fallen in this industry. The only reason people like you want to go around reporting other drivers is to make yourself feel important.
It beggars belief what some people are capable of.

I dont want to and I dont go out of my way to do so. I also said dangerous driving. Not a misjudgement or mistake. There is a big difference between dangerous driving and general misjudgements or mistakes. This forum lately is filled with posts about about standards of driving. Very few in my opinion are dangerous. Of course I make mistakes and misjudge things. What im saying is people like yourself with that attitude won’t help anything and just let dangerous drivers get away with murder. The Dutch say should ger reported. The maritime one, should not
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So what gives you the knowledge and qualifications to judge what is dangerous driving and what is not are you a police officer or just a self appointed one I guess it’s the later.
Get off your high horse get on with your job and let the authorities do there job.
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I carry petrol in tanks. So generally I try to be bit mote careful and drive the safest and best to my ability. Clearly something you dont understand. I wont come back with anything else. Pointless. But we are all entitled to our opinion but you see that as an excuse to basically insult and belittle anyone who doesn’t agree with you. Have fun telling stories waiting in RDC’s.
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Just because you drive a petrol tanker that make you feel special does it ? You know nowt about what I do no more than I did about you till you said you drive a tanker.
But I hate to tell you the days of petrol tanker drivers being special are long gone so get over yourself .
Btw I don’t do RDC work jfyi.

[indigojo]

beetee07:
Btw I don’t do RDC work jfyi.

Nor do I (as someone suggested earlier). I do a mixture of class 1 trunking and local HIAB work and when this incident happened, I was driving a class 2 HIAB truck.

[nodding_donkey]

Ah, class 2 driver, say no more. Probably hi-viz wearing agency driver too…

[winseer]

Uncleskid:
Am I reading this right… A Maritime driver overtaking■■

Yeh. And without being on a roundabout too…

[robroy]

I just love these self righteous, self appointed, superior driving god wannabe traffic police types …reporting every example of ■■■■ poor driving
Everybody knows that a lot of today’s truck drivers are total bell ends end of, but reporting a victimless non event will go down like a ■■■■ in a lift with the REAL Police. Wtf are they supposed to do? and if reported to their firms by these ■■■■■■ busy bodies, do you honestly think that they will be taken seriously in real terms?
What it needs is real Policing, you never see any bad driving or speeding etc in the known vicinity of a Police car.

[the-snowman]

htmldude:
[zb] really.

I mean just [zb] really?

What sort of RDC dwelling, jumped up, self important prick are you to try and get a driver to lose his job?

I hope you put some money in his tin when he and his family are sitting on the streets because your [zb] behaviour lost him his job. Stop talking about “[tweeting] his registration” to his [zb] company as if it’s something to be [zb] proud of…

Did anyone else read this and in their head hear the bleep they use on television to cover bad words and have a chuckle?

[whyohwhy]

You lot make me laugh.

On one hand you want better wages and yet you are happy to witness crap driving and don’t believe it should be reported.

Ever think the the two are linked.

For every crap cheap barely qualified driver that gets employed your pay packet takes a hit.

Yet you don’t want to “Dob them in”

Priceless absolutely priceless.

You talk about going on strike and bringing the country to its knees and yet ignore the dumbing down of what should be a decently paid job.

Try thinking about making the companies who employ these idiots think again and you get back to the heyday of driver shortages and a decent wage.

And the rest of us will be able to get back to referring to truck drivers as knights of the road.

Get some pride in your job and get the bellends off the road.

If you accept having bellends as comrades then you’d better get used to accepting ■■■■ money. Because you will all get tarred with the bellend brush.

[craigm]

I’m not compelled to snitch myself. The Maritime incident sounds like something of nothing. The guy might have made a mistake and if you lifted off he could have safely corrected it. Wasn’t there so just hypothesising.
However I did snitch on Friday. Directly to police on 101 number. Sat in traffic at lights a golf that had been driving pretty erratically pulled up alongside in a right filter lane. Fast asleep on the passengers lap was a little toddler. Lights go green and golf screeches off cutting in front of me to go straight on. I didn’t hesitate to snitch in this case. Although nobody got hurt the potential was unthinkable.

[robroy]

whyohwhy:
You lot make me laugh.

On one hand you want better wages and yet you are happy to witness crap driving and don’t believe it should be reported.

Ever think the the two are linked.

For every crap cheap barely qualified driver that gets employed your pay packet takes a hit.

Yet you don’t want to “Dob them in”

Priceless absolutely priceless.

You talk about going on strike and bringing the country to its knees and yet ignore the dumbing down of what should be a decently paid job.

Try thinking about making the companies who employ these idiots think again and you get back to the heyday of driver shortages and a decent wage.

And the rest of us will be able to get back to referring to truck drivers as knights of the road.

Get some pride in your job and get the bellends off the road.

If you accept having bellends as comrades then you’d better get used to accepting [zb] money. Because you will all get tarred with the bellend brush.

First post and you have a pop at us…I think I like you mate

It’s too late ALL drivers are already tarred with the same brush. The public perception of us is at an all time low, down to agressive and crap driving lack of courtesy and general stuff like leaving crap in parking places etc.

Even if I (which I aint) and others, were of the nature of reporting, grassing, dobbing, or whatever you want to call it, it would be like ■■■■■■■ against the wind…nobody cares anymore as long as the job gets done, and the bell ends among us are far too great in numbers now anyway.

As for striking are you serious? It will never happen, there is no longer any solidarity among drivers, just go through some of the posts on this forum, some stars work for ■■■■ all willinglly,… some even admit…it’s a hobby not a job ffs

As for me I just keep my head down, I do the job to suit me, I don’t react to knobs trying to put pressure on me, and make THEM look incompetent by still getting things done whilst ignoring them, work alongside the good drivers, and the complete helmets in the job… but keep the latter at a safe distance. I reckon that is better than going on some sort of reporting pointless crusade.

[whyohwhy]

robroy:

whyohwhy:
You lot make me laugh.

On one hand you want better wages and yet you are happy to witness crap driving and don’t believe it should be reported.

Ever think the the two are linked.

For every crap cheap barely qualified driver that gets employed your pay packet takes a hit.

Yet you don’t want to “Dob them in”

Priceless absolutely priceless.

You talk about going on strike and bringing the country to its knees and yet ignore the dumbing down of what should be a decently paid job.

Try thinking about making the companies who employ these idiots think again and you get back to the heyday of driver shortages and a decent wage.

And the rest of us will be able to get back to referring to truck drivers as knights of the road.

Get some pride in your job and get the bellends off the road.

If you accept having bellends as comrades then you’d better get used to accepting [zb] money. Because you will all get tarred with the bellend brush.

First post and you have a pop at us…I think I like you mate

It’s too late ALL drivers are already tarred with the same brush. The public perception of us is at an all time low, down to agressive and crap driving lack of courtesy and general stuff like leaving crap in parking places etc.

Even if I (which I aint) and others, were of the nature of reporting, grassing, dobbing, or whatever you want to call it, it would be like ■■■■■■■ against the wind…nobody cares anymore as long as the job gets done, and the bell ends among us are far too great in numbers now anyway.

As for striking are you serious? It will never happen, there is no longer any solidarity among drivers, just go through some of the posts on this forum, some stars work for [zb] all willinglly,… some even admit…it’s a hobby not a job ffs

As for me I just keep my head down, I do the job to suit me, I don’t react to knobs trying to put pressure on me, and make THEM look incompetent by still getting things done whilst ignoring them, work alongside the good drivers, and the complete helmets in the job… but keep the latter at a safe distance. I reckon that is better than going on some sort of reporting pointless crusade.

Not by first post. And not having a go, just think you would all do better by sticking together with the good guys and getting shot of the cheap crap labour at every opportunity.

When Toscos and the like find that they can’t beat their suppliers, drivers and everyone else up to try and make a buck things will improve.

To just roll over and let crap drivers give everyone a bad name is defeatist.

Dob them in, get companies realising that decent staff is the way to go and hiring ■■■■ will hit their bottom line by affecting their precious reputation.

Twitter is your friend here.

[robroy]

whyohwhy:
Not by first post. And not having a go, just think you would all do better by sticking together with the good guys and getting shot of the cheap crap labour at every opportunity.

When Toscos and the like find that they can’t beat their suppliers, drivers and everyone else up to try and make a buck things will improve.

To just roll over and let crap drivers give everyone a bad name is defeatist.

Dob them in, get companies realising that decent staff is the way to go and hiring [zb] will hit their bottom line by affecting their precious reputation.

Twitter is your friend here.

Well it said it was your first post.

Not a defeatist mate but a realist, a world of difference
as I said ■■■■■■■ against the wind.
Driver standards will always get worse down to the equation of …No skills needed anymore = incompetent inept drivers.
As they all get through an ever expanding net, where as in the older days they would not have got through the tighter net on account of them being as thick as pig ■■■■.
So you keep ringing all the companies that you see have ■■■■ poor drivers mate,… but be prepared for a huge phone bill
Where as me, I’ll continue doing my own thing keeping my head down and looking after number 1.

[the-snowman]

whyohwhy:
Not by first post. And not having a go, just think you would all do better by sticking together with the good guys and getting shot of the cheap crap labour at every opportunity.

When Toscos and the like find that they can’t beat their suppliers, drivers and everyone else up to try and make a buck things will improve.

To just roll over and let crap drivers give everyone a bad name is defeatist.

Dob them in, get companies realising that decent staff is the way to go and hiring [zb] will hit their bottom line by affecting their precious reputation.

Twitter is your friend here.

What is your other user name then? Your certainly coming across as someone whos not a newbie to the forum but your post count is 2 and you say it wasnt your first post.
But twitter isnt your friend. Im a big supporter of reporting dangerous driving (I ended up in an argument last year when I said id report someone using a laptop at the wheel when driving) but everyone makes mistakes and has lapses in concentration. Theres a difference. And im not a fan of every jumped up “perfect” driver taking to twitter or filming it and deciding it belongs on youtube. Pretty soon you’ll go back to the yard and be presented with a list of “infractions” reported during the day and need to justify yourself like some kind of 10yr old school kid. no thanks.

[whyohwhy]

Not noticed the posts count.

Deffo done more than two though.

I understand where you’re coming from, it just frustrates me that what is still a skilful job, because driving well should be seen as a skill is downgraded by Cowboys cutting costs.

Supermarkets are a case in point, pay suppliers what they like, when they like and if the supplier doesn’t like it tough. And still they manage to lose millions. Wouldn’t be surprised if they treat their drivers in the same way.

What employers need to understand is that although technology has made some of the job easier, traffic levels and regulations have made it more difficult.

I’m all for freedom of movement within Europe for workers, but that freedom should not allow the average wage or acceptable driving standards to be reduced to accommodate them. Nor should it allow poor drivers of any nationality to remain in post.

Pay good staff a fair wage and everyone’s happy. Driving a truck that weighs 44t all in shouldn’t be seen as simple low paid no skills job, and those that do need to ride shotgun for a day.