Kent police release video of accident

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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peterm:

eddie snax:

cav551:
With work currently quiet this week we went to Langdon Cliff yesterday afternoon to watch from above the giant kiddies’ playset that is Dover Port, with the toy boats steaming across all the way to a very visible Calais. Driving home at 5pm rush hour into the evening sun with mad car drivers doing 85 and a shuttle having just disgorged a trainload of foreign lorries, trunk-holding-tail, was not a nice experience.

I think I would have been tempted to have found a Pub for an early evening meal, and head home a couple of hours later :wink:

■■■■■■ as a ■■■■ = much more relaxed about the other drivers. :wink:

:smiley: :smiley:

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As usual, the ‘johnney foreigner’ and ‘professional EE’ driver slating from some posters. Yes, extremely poor driving but if it was a Brit truck would there be ‘typical Brit driver’ type comments…most likely no… :unamused:

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AndrewG:
As usual, the ‘johnney foreigner’ and ‘professional EE’ driver slating from some posters. Yes, extremely poor driving but if it was a Brit truck would there be ‘typical Brit driver’ type comments…most likely no… :unamused:

Firstly anyone who’s experienced the driving standards in Eastern Europe either before or after the EU invasion would know that there is some truth in the accusations.Having said that there’s also a general plummeting standard of driving regardless of nationality which seems to be a generational issue.

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I can well remember driving through Poland when you had to watch out for the speeding horses and carts and the only bit of motorway was 28 km long near Poznan, and you let go of the wheel for the whole stretch the ruts were so deep :slight_smile:

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Let’s just say that with the overtaking ‘regime’ in Yugoslavia getting hit from behind was the least of your worries. :open_mouth:

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AndrewG:
As usual, the ‘johnney foreigner’ and ‘professional EE’ driver slating from some posters. Yes, extremely poor driving but if it was a Brit truck would there be ‘typical Brit driver’ type comments…most likely no… :unamused:

Definitely YES there would be comments !!! Page back through old posts of driver errors etc, English drivers get slated off just as much.

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Half of these EU drivers get their licence so easily it’s unreal.

Shocking thing is I’ve worked with a few of these drivers who’ve told me how they got the licence and it’s so easy for anyone to go get one then get it transfered over here.

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but surely the pallets on the truck in front shouldn’t have been scattered so easily? I mean, if one layer shifts then the straps go slack and it all goes, sure, but it seems to me that they flew off as if they were held on with bale-o-twine, even considering the force of the impact.