Impatient truck drivers

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tachograph:
keeping a sensible distance from the vehicle in front is one thing, but when people insist on leaving very long gaps
it creates queues longer than they need to be and results in blocked junctions

I agree with you to a point…

If people are taking it to extremes and allowing the traffic in front to pull away from them, then yes of course,
that’ll be frustrating for anyone behind… but what I’m suggesting is that it makes perfect sense to have a
large enough gap ahead to eliminate the need to EVER become stationery,
provided you’re still keeping up with the traffic you’re following!

I just can’t understand the mentality of 90% of drivers in queues that want to rush up to stationery traffic STOP,
move off again… perhaps another few yards… STOP>>START>>STOP>>START>>STOP>>START!!

Keep the wheels moving at ALL times… More fuel efficient, less leg work, save the clutch, brake pads!

Allow the impatient lane jumpers to move out and in as they please… and then take great pleasure in watching
them race up to the back of the queue in your lane and jam their brakes on again! :laughing: - They’ll gain nothing
You’ll lose nothing

You’ll also find a weird thing happening… If you keep the wheels constantly turning traffic jams will begin to
have less effect on your emotional state, as I’m convinced it’s the constant STOP START nature of traffic jams that
frustrates most people! :smiley:

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mike68:
What a miserable exixtence it must be to have to work a job that makes a man behave like that, I feel sorry for drivers that have to drive like bank robbers usually for poor pay, they look terrible they actually look like lorry drivers massively stressed stick thin or 8 stone overweight.

They are the authors of there own misfortune the saddest thing of all is they don’t even realise it.

You know what Mike? Your bang on the money with that observation.

Sad, but true.

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ezydriver:

Rowley010:
Hope I never work for a company where I feel I have to rush that much.

Speaking of which, I’ve never yet seen a Tufnell’s motor (the night trunking drawbars) driving normally. They always seem to hammer everywhere on the limiter, even past our yard which is 30mph.

And they think they own laybys where they dump their drawbars.