I had to park in a truckstop the other night in the UK. At the table next to me I had to listen to 3 or 4 drivers who had been to a different school to me arguing about! yes you guessed it! Speed
Apparently on the planet these muppets come from there is a different speed limit for heavier trucks
It is ok for a 5 axle truck at 40 / 41 tonne to run at 56mph on dual carriageways, but a 44 tonner can only do 50mph
This same rule applies on singe track roads as well according to one of them.
40/41 tonne is 50mph and 44 tonne and heavy haulage is 40mph.
One driver even said his mate was a traffic policeman and he had shown him the new rules!
God Help Us! How are we going to cope with all the different speed limits? and who can tell what weight a truck is plated at by counting the axles?
Presumably by these rules 38 tonners need a parachute fitting and 7.5 tonners are racing cars
B, carry out a physical driving test on the public roads
C, Answere questions on highway code
D, Go to the āmockā cafe in the test center and talk bovine excretia for at least
half an hour whilst making copius use of the ābottomless cupā.
Theres a bloke at our place who reckons a 6x2 tractor unit coupled to a 44 foot triaxle reefer weighs only 9 tonnes empty! I told him the unit weighs a shade under 8 tonnes alone but he still wouldnāt have it.
north surrey haulage:
Apparently itās in the H.G.V driving test.
You have to
A, sit a written test
B, carry out a physical driving test on the public roads
C, Answere questions on highway code
D, Go to the āmockā cafe in the test center and talk bovine excretia for at least
half an hour whilst making copius use of the ābottomless cupā.
Wheel Nut:
I had to park in a truckstop the other night in the UK. At the table next to me I had to listen to 3 or 4 drivers who had been to a different school to me arguing about! yes you guessed it! Speed
Apparently on the planet these muppets come from there is a different speed limit for heavier trucks
It is ok for a 5 axle truck at 40 / 41 tonne to run at 56mph on dual carriageways, but a 44 tonner can only do 50mph
This same rule applies on singe track roads as well according to one of them.
40/41 tonne is 50mph and 44 tonne and heavy haulage is 40mph.
One driver even said his mate was a traffic policeman and he had shown him the new rules!
God Help Us! How are we going to cope with all the different speed limits? and who can tell what weight a truck is plated at by counting the axles?
Presumably by these rules 38 tonners need a parachute fitting and 7.5 tonners are racing cars
It is to save me having to listen to absolute bulls feaces like this that I avoid Truckstops (except for a shower) like the plague
TheBear:
It is to save me having to listen to absolute bulls feaces like this that I avoid Truckstops (except for a shower) like the plague
Some time ago I was in the PB truckstop in Gent waiting for a trailer to come off the ship from Gothenburg.
There I sat,on my own,reading a book after finishing my meal.Along comes this utter (zb) and sits down next to me and starts rabbiting on about this and that into his mobile phone (he was a Brit) and after finishing his phone conversation (which the whole restaurant heard) he starts trying to make small talk.When he realised I wasnāt going to be receptive to his garbage he went to another table to annoy someone else.
Another time,in Carisio one weekend,I was sitting in the bar Sunday morning (ahem,drinking coffee mālud) when one of my Dutch colleagues sayās to me āHeās Britishā looking at a driver whoād just emeged from the shower with a clean T-shirt on that was full of holes and barely covered his ample stomach.
And by god he was right!
You can usually spot them a mile off.
language edit if it needs stars itās not allowed mrs mix
Had one the other day trying to tell me that an imperial ton was about half of a metric tonne and that he had got away with any number of stops by police by telling them that.
The most unbelievable though is some yorkshire driver called rob, his boss tells him that he is the best driver heās got. Thatās not the unbelievable bit. Itās the fact that rob believed him that made me wet myself.
