Is it me or is the trucknetuk server on the fritz? Couldn’t access via website for a week with “server not responding” message. Page won’t refresh then jumps to loads of new posts.
hammer:
At the risk of focussing this intense political discussion back towards the original point of this thread…When on the Motorway / Dual Carriageway, always treat the space to the side of a lorry like a box junction. If you can’t get out the other side - don’t go in. Always worked for me.
Thats actually rather well put
So good you wrote it 3 times…
Think we heard you the first time Carry old fruit.
switchlogic:
Think we heard you the first time Carry old fruit.
It isn’t my fault as has been said the sites posting system seems to have gone nuts.Nothing happens then it posts every time you’ve tried. 
It’s not CF, I think TNET’s system is creaking
Mind you could be down to you CF. Perhaps all your lengthy posts have caused the server to go up in smoke 
switchlogic:
Think we heard you the first time Carry old fruit.
As you may have seen from other posts on the PDF within the last hour, the TruckNet server is currently faulty and is posting many same posts multiple times. For somebody who seems to spend his entire life on the internet, I’m surprised you hadn’t worked that out.
switchlogic:
hammer:
At the risk of focussing this intense political discussion back towards the original point of this thread…When on the Motorway / Dual Carriageway, always treat the space to the side of a lorry like a box junction. If you can’t get out the other side - don’t go in. Always worked for me.
Thats actually rather well put
Which would be great in theory but doesn’t work in the real world of ridiculously low speed differentials between the lanes caused by the speed limits and people who can’t drive going too slow ahead.
Freight Dog:
It’s not CF, I think TNET’s system is creakingMind you could be down to you CF. Perhaps all your lengthy posts have caused the server to go up in smoke
Probably it’s just trying to decide wether Lab/Con are right or UKIP. 
I am going to vote Carryfast for Prime Minister of twaddle,or our next Euro MP.Where the hell does he get his “Duff gen”
From, that is military speak for wrong information.
There is a ship going to supply Antartica with baked beans, Please get on the ship, it is a one way ticket to spot Polar bears and penguins.
If you get frostbite, more duff gen.
robinhood_1984:
He’s probably busy elsewhere watching youtube videos about Australian road trains and thinking how the UK would benefit for them, or perhaps he’s penning that latter to the US department of transport about the merits of refitting the entire industry here with A frame drawbars.
To be fair I didn’t say it had to be a 9 axle drawbar outfit.A 6 axle artic would be progress in that regard since the 6 axle drawbars of the 1930’s. 
Never mind drawbars again, I’m still waiting to know whether a fear of clowns also makes you a ■■■■.
amamdada:
Soon changed her tune when the first thing the insurance company said was ‘don’t hold out much hope for your excess as we don’t have much success recovering the money from foreign lorries’’
She ain’t happy.
Neither was I.
dozy:
Lot of scaremongering on this thread,my mrs car was reversed into by a foreign truck and the car was wrote off ,we got paid out for car,no different to any accident we’ve had over here
Also got hit by one in truck and again no issues
Lucky you. It’s been over 3years since this happened to me, solicitor can’t recover the costs, over £3k I’m owed and it’s just dragging on 
bobbya:
switchlogic:
It’s not just the standard of motorway driving though is it, it seems like drivers have given up on basic driving skills completely.
+1
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
hammer:
At the risk of focussing this intense political discussion back towards the original point of this thread…When on the Motorway / Dual Carriageway, always treat the space to the side of a lorry like a box junction. If you can’t get out the other side - don’t go in. Always worked for me.
Thats actually rather well put
Which would be great in theory but doesn’t work in the real world of ridiculously low speed differentials between the lanes caused by the speed limits and people who can’t drive going too slow ahead.
You and your differentials.
Freight Dog:
Never mind drawbars again, I’m still waiting to know whether a fear of clowns also makes you a ■■■■.
No, but fear of gas bills does.
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
hammer:
At the risk of focussing this intense political discussion back towards the original point of this thread…When on the Motorway / Dual Carriageway, always treat the space to the side of a lorry like a box junction. If you can’t get out the other side - don’t go in. Always worked for me.
Thats actually rather well put
Which would be great in theory but doesn’t work in the real world of ridiculously low speed differentials between the lanes caused by the speed limits and people who can’t drive going too slow ahead.
So you would be happy to be sat in lane 2 in your truck side by side with another 44 tonner going through the roadworks on the M1 then?
weeto:
Carryfast:
hammer:
When on the Motorway / Dual Carriageway, always treat the space to the side of a lorry like a box junction. If you can’t get out the other side - don’t go in. Always worked for me.Which would be great in theory but doesn’t work in the real world of ridiculously low speed differentials between the lanes caused by the speed limits and people who can’t drive going too slow ahead.
So you would be happy to be sat in lane 2 in your truck side by side with another 44 tonner going through the roadworks on the M1 then?
Assuming I thought that the overtaking lane wasn’t good enough for its supposed job then I obviously wouldn’t be using it to overtake.Whereas in the case of there not being a problem in regards to the available lanes then the definition of ‘overtaking’ generally means driving alongside.The time that takes,as I said, depends on the speed differential which,as I also said,is made a lot worse in that regard by the speeds dictated by the ridiculous speed regime and/or erratic speeds of the traffic ahead in the overtaking lane/s.As for left hand drive here,or right hand drive on the continent,or centre drive wherever no one said that’s going to be easy when making a lane change to the right,or left,or either respectively.
yoyo5:
switchlogic:
war1974:
I would still rather someone new had a try .Alas as I pointed out previously they’re isn’t really much ‘new’ about UKIP. It’s just a bunch of politicians that have been politicians for a long time doing what they’ve always done. I dream of the day a genuinely new and exciting party comes along, or someone inspirational and exciting transforms an existing party but sadly in my opinion that looks as far off now as it ever has
A big + one on that, We really do need a genuine inspirational leader, to come on the scene and at the moment it does not exist.
why not vote bnp and see how that works?..
war1974:
how can it be classed as having the guts to call people Nazis, agree with the bankers etc. caused a lot and got away pretty scot free however I stick by my point of immigration needs to be for people who have a skill set not unskilled labour who are doing jobs the workshy members of this society should be forced to do.
a contract near to where I live is 99% polish and all they do is pick/pack all day every day, this isn’t skilled or anything that could not have been done without mass immigration from the EU.
this is why the EU is such an issue not the banks Labour [zb] up with their estimates blame the conservatives for it and stupid people forget this and will then go and revote Labour in. UKIP have jumped on a major issue in the UK and will happily ride it for as long as they can.
and for the record I have no issue with immigration if its of benefit to the country and firmly believe we should have similar schemes such as Canada etc.
Have you checked their passports or just the fact that they are from EE means they are Polish. I have seen people calling Russians Poles as the looks and language may be similar for many.
Have a look at this figures and tell me which immigration is worse
EE migrans are far less than African and Asian ones and they are more likely to work rather than take benefits or stretch NHS. You just repeat bolloc* that someone stuff in to your head without actually making any research on your own.
MisterStrood:
war1974:
how can it be classed as having the guts to call people Nazis, agree with the bankers etc. caused a lot and got away pretty scot free however I stick by my point of immigration needs to be for people who have a skill set not unskilled labour who are doing jobs the workshy members of this society should be forced to do.
a contract near to where I live is 99% polish and all they do is pick/pack all day every day, this isn’t skilled or anything that could not have been done without mass immigration from the EU.
this is why the EU is such an issue not the banks Labour [zb] up with their estimates blame the conservatives for it and stupid people forget this and will then go and revote Labour in. UKIP have jumped on a major issue in the UK and will happily ride it for as long as they can.
and for the record I have no issue with immigration if its of benefit to the country and firmly believe we should have similar schemes such as Canada etc.Have you checked their passports or just the fact that they are from EE means they are Polish. I have seen people calling Russians Poles as the looks and language may be similar for many.
Have a look at this figures and tell me which immigration is worseEE migrans are far less than African and Asian ones and they are more likely to work rather than take benefits or stretch NHS. You just repeat bolloc* that someone stuff in to your head without actually making any research on your own.
ok so a bit generalist to be fair but my point stays the same irrespective of where people come from do we really need car washers? how many of the figures you have pulled from the internet are skilled? that is my point not anti immigration but 100% I am anti bringing people into a country with little or no skills.
what proof do you have that Africans/Asians take benefits? or stretch the NHS? from what I have seen without Asians the NHS would be screwed.
if my drivel is so far out why do countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA all have restrictions on who can enter?
so it doesn’t matter where you are from bring a skill, and carrot picking, car washing isn’t a skill.