One of Eddies older drivers, you know the sort…4 eyes and a comb-over…Northbound A34 Nr Chievely yesterday. All over the road because he was texting. Where’s Angus when ya need him? 
it winds me of the clock this you can tell whos on the phone when your following them, there probably that engrossed just creep up side of em wait while ur level with cab n give them some horn might wake em up a bit. i do it to everyone i see so if a clarke transport scania blows horn at you then you know why 
we should have a board on here for that,do a name & shame for the drivers & the wagon they are in,seen on the phone!!!
you never know there bosses might see it 
I’ll talk on the phone if the hands free isn’t clear or it’s a bad line but text and drive no way, in this day and age you are asking for trouble and a black mark 
jrl driver:
we should have a board on here for that,do a name & shame for the drivers & the wagon they are in,seen on the phone!!!you never know there bosses might see it
so he cant have a phone in one hand and the steering wheel in the other but you can have a notepad in one, a pen in the other and take your eyes off the road long enough to write his reg no and company name down , why dont we all just do what we are supposed to be doing and leave the law enforcement to them what gets paid for it
when i am posting on trucknet i use the rumble strip, that way, if it goes quiet i know i have veered off track…
simples…
Lrm
If it had been any other colour truck, this post would not exist. How often do you see, blonde bimbo in Mazda seen putting lippie on?
bit like the stobart driver who was having a clash of conscience about whether to overtake a hearse on the A1M nb nr pboro yesterday, straddled 2 lanes, pulled back in, then indicated and started pulling out, then pulled back in, i was following and was coming off at the next slip when all of a sudden he performed what i can only describe as an emergency stop from 50 mph to 10mph 
it woke me up and good job i kept my distance as was a bit worried about his lane drifting to start with.
he then finally pulled into lane 2 when the hearse pulled off onto the same slip road as me…iditot.
chaversdad:
why dont we all just do what we are supposed to be doing and leave the law enforcement to them what gets paid for it
I wonder if you or your family would say the same thing after being hit and possibly killed by some [zb] driver not concentrating on his driving, because he’s on the phone?
chaversdad:
jrl driver:
we should have a board on here for that,do a name & shame for the drivers & the wagon they are in,seen on the phone!!!you never know there bosses might see it
so he cant have a phone in one hand and the steering wheel in the other but you can have a notepad in one, a pen in the other and take your eyes off the road long enough to write his reg no and company name down
i agree with you, i m ight start a stobbie thread cos i saw 2 running together on the M62 past castleford today, ive never seen 2 running together at that spot before.
exmayor:
I’ll talk on the phone if the hands free isn’t clear or it’s a bad line but text and drive no way, in this day and age you are asking for trouble and a black mark
Talking on the phone won’t get you a black mark, it’ll get you 3 points and a fine.
My bluetooth is so quiet that I have to hold it in with my finger… I may as well just hold the phone up to my ear.
mickfly:
exmayor:
I’ll talk on the phone if the hands free isn’t clear or it’s a bad line but text and drive no way, in this day and age you are asking for trouble and a black markTalking on the phone won’t get you a black mark, it’ll get you 3 points and a fine.
My bluetooth is so quiet that I have to hold it in with my finger… I may as well just hold the phone up to my ear.
ive just started using one and thats what im ending up doing, putting my hand over it to try and here what there saying, at times its very clear,at others i havent got a clue what there saying on the other end
He won’t be the only one doing it will he. I saw a low loader driver talking on his phone with the map open on the steering wheel on a busy dual carriageway the other day. Blow me, the same afternoon we saw a chap in a Jag doing the same. As far as I’m concerned, the sooner they get caught the better ut I’m not going to be reporting them.
Am I the only one who notices drivers of big posh makes of cars tend to be holding the phone? I’ve only got cheap cars but they’ve all got either hands free or bluetooth in them. There’s no excuse for holding a phone or having paperwork open while mobile these days. Pull over in a layby & sort it out, it’ll only takes a minute to do it.
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EastAnglianTrucker:
chaversdad:
why dont we all just do what we are supposed to be doing and leave the law enforcement to them what gets paid for itI wonder if you or your family would say the same thing after being hit and possibly killed by some [zb] driver not concentrating on his driving, because he’s on the phone?
tbh mate i,d be more concerned for them being injured by a half asleep foreigner than one of eddies finest using his phone, i,m not saying i agree with phoning and driving but before the ban i used to do it all the time and i wouldnt say it made me a dangerous driver, there are just to many people wanting to interfere and take an interest in other peoples buisness when they should just concentrate on what they ought to be doing, theres idiots in every walk of life, people coming on here with there holier than thou attitude wont change anything, but if it makes there uninteresting little lifes a bit brighter by complaining on here…
mickfly:
exmayor:
I’ll talk on the phone if the hands free isn’t clear or it’s a bad line but text and drive no way, in this day and age you are asking for trouble and a black markTalking on the phone won’t get you a black mark, it’ll get you 3 points and a fine.
My bluetooth is so quiet that I have to hold it in with my finger… I may as well just hold the phone up to my ear.
We’ve got Jabra H/F kits and they are crap-the irritating “disconnected” voice at least once an hour is far more distracting than a phone under your ear. If it wasn’t for my wife being close to giving birth I’d make it the second hands-free kit I’ve thrown into the tipper on a muck job…
chaversdad:
EastAnglianTrucker:
chaversdad:
why dont we all just do what we are supposed to be doing and leave the law enforcement to them what gets paid for itI wonder if you or your family would say the same thing after being hit and possibly killed by some [zb] driver not concentrating on his driving, because he’s on the phone?
tbh mate i,d be more concerned for them being injured by a half asleep foreigner than one of eddies finest using his phone, i,m not saying i agree with phoning and driving but before the ban i used to do it all the time and i wouldnt say it made me a dangerous driver, there are just to many people wanting to interfere and take an interest in other peoples buisness when they should just concentrate on what they ought to be doing, theres idiots in every walk of life, people coming on here with there holier than thou attitude wont change anything, but if it makes there uninteresting little lifes a bit brighter by complaining on here…
Can’t notice other people …Even when a passenger? See…When I drive, I usually don’t find myself banned. So my opinion is valid!
whatever so you are now telling me everyone who complains on here about people doing something they shouldnt be are sat in the passenger seat ?
i was making a point in general, not having a go at your particular eddie problem
boring,
Another Mr Perfect…
It’s a sad state of affairs when so called professional drivers cannot mange to text and drive in a straight line at the same time. Shocking, it’s not rocket science.
Exactly. Back in the day you weren’t classed as a driver unless you could hold 2 conversions on 2 phones, neither of which were hands free, whilst negotiating monmouth lights and roundabout in an ERF with a twinsplitter. 