We all have our ways of lowering our bank balance, but this is a double whammy way of doing it.
I wonder what the outcome of his day of tea and biscuits is going to end like.
bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan … e-at-wheel
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Hope what ever he bought was worth it
One of the reasons why using a phone can actually be more dangerous that being over the drink drive limit.
Whenever I’m tempted to do things I shouldn’t, I think it’s a good idea to consider how hard it was to become a lorry driver, we all know how difficult the HGV test is, and how much effort we put into getting a licence
Like the police ‘super cab’, a narrow cab Actros for God sake. Some reporters out there!
Sploom:
Whenever I’m tempted to do things I shouldn’t, I think it’s a good idea to consider how hard it was to become a lorry driver, we all know how difficult the HGV test is, and how much effort we put into getting a licence
Glad you ain’t tempted but really?
If a young person doesn’t come from a haulage back ground then it is difficult to learn every thing for the various exams that exist nowadays. Its also a very expensive exercise, so don’t blow it. Tell your friends and family that you are driving and not to call you, if it rings just let it.
Absolutely beggars belief that this is still happening…bigger fines, and a loss of licence is the next step. No sympathy whatsoever.
I know a driver on here, who was a regular poster ( shall remain nameless ) bit of a bloating Charlie Bigbollox, he was too busy taking photos of an accident on the opposite carriageway of the M62 for Facebook, he hadn’t noticed the stationary flatbed on the hard shoulder, luckily he only took the cab corner out and damaged the door, but could have been a lot worse, it stopped his mobile hobby.
Absolutely no excuse. Phone on silent. Bluetooth on for anything important. Otherwise I ignore it.
Driving is hard enough. Why make it easy for the filth.
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I just keep my phone in my pocket, it’s attached to Bluetooth but if it rings I still ignore it. It’ll only be the office, whom I don’t want to speak to, or the wife, whom I go to work to get away from, so…
Let’s not get carried away here, like I said on the ‘‘Loophole’’ thread,…statistics on ‘‘Utter carnage and murder’’ 
down to phones, that was devised and massaged by the powers that be are just that…statistics, a good way of ‘‘proving’’ (whether true or not) anything you ■■■■ like.
Of course there are/were phone related accidents, but not in epidemic proportions as they like you to believe.
Reading some of the posts on here there is a hint of success present, that the latest message that is currently being drip fed to us (with the inevitable ultimate ban as usual ) that it is now deemed ‘‘unsafe’’ even to talk on hands free…imo complete ■■■■■■■■.
This guy wasn’t making a call, he was texting, an act where you need to use both hands and a lot of concentration, ie a step further from a simple phone conversation on hands free.
Listening to radio, having a conversation, daydreaming or scratching your arse is also a distraction, it’s impossible to concentrate ultimately 100% for 9 or 10 hours of your driving day.
So let’s keep things in perspective…talking of which, Jake’s knee jerk reaction comment of a driver on the phone being as bad or worse than somebody off their ■■■■ with drink, I aint even gonna bother to argue, what’s the ■■■■ point.
And don’t get me started about ■■■■ coppers in trucks. 
Mmm, I wonder if youde take the same view if one of your relatives was squashed by that driver was playing with his phone
I think in some ways this mobile phone campaign has done more harm than good, I more often than not see people trying to covertly use their phones now instead, one hand texting or scrolling song lists whilst looking down at the phone in their laps being the main one and imo that’s much more dangerous than having the phone held to your ear.
So based on that reason alone these “super cabs” might be the only solution.
Sploom:
Mmm, I wonder if youde take the same view if one of your relatives was squashed by that driver was playing with his phone
As i recall that waste of space, just another in the long list of immigrants involved in serious crashes here, though for a change not ■■■■■■ or sleeping it off on the motorway live lane this time , was going through his phone looking for music.
As said in a post above this is all going to lead to a complete ban on phone calls on the move, it’s where the rhetoric is going, another nail in the dumbing down coffin.
These companies employ cheap as chips, and about as much use as a bag of last weeks chips, licence holders, because they don’t pay enough to get real lorry drivers or even if they do pay well micro manage on the one size fits all method based on the lowest common denominator, treating proper lorry drivers as if they are the barrel scrapings as featured in the link so the good drivers leave and that thing in the link is all they can get, and arguably what they deserve.
These people will never be lorry drivers as long as they have the proverbial hole in their arse, you could train them till the cows come home, send them on a dcpc course every month of their lives, track them, film them, monitor them, assess their every move on the most up to date software a schoolboy could come up with, pay them £75k a year for a 35 hour week, give them a valeted and serviced every night state of the art vehicle and they still couldn’t drive the ■■■■■■■ lorry properly to save their miserable bloody lives even they concentrated 100% of the time, they aint lorry drivers and they never will be, end of.
Oh don’t worry about any 'ist comments, we’ve got enough half wits of our own without scraping the outsider barrels.
Sploom:
Mmm, I wonder if youde take the same view if one of your relatives was squashed by that driver was playing with his phone
Mmmm read the ■■■■ post. …you’ve obviously interpreted it wrong.
I’ve already said it’s a step above having a conversation, so if he did squash my Uncle Frank while ‘‘playing with his phone’’ I’d still have the same view…ie he done wrong chuck the book at him.
My point was is it as dodgy as they make out TALKING on a phone, hand held or now hands free.
And No , I do not do it non hands free.
OK. I mean, really, we’ve probably all done things that could have jeopardised other road users safety.There are those who played with their phones and weren’t concentrating, but they were lucky that there wasn’t a car in front of them stationary, but aren’t they just as guilty? if we were all brought to justice, you’re going to have to build a prison the size of Birmingham to hold all those that have put other road users at risk. So, yes, it’s a difficult problem. No other way to deal with it but cameras and fines though
a driver on the phone being as bad or worse than somebody off their ■■■■ with drink
If you try reading and digesting you may find that is not what I said. 
No other way to deal with it but cameras and fines though.
Oh yes there is and it will come sooner rather than later simply because some never learn.
Sploom:
OK. I mean, really, we’ve probably all done things that could have jeopardised other road users safety.There are those who played with their phones and weren’t concentrating, but they were lucky that there wasn’t a car in front of them stationary, but aren’t they just as guilty? if we were all brought to justice, you’re going to have to build a prison the size of Birmingham to hold all those that have put other road users at risk. So, yes, it’s a difficult problem. No other way to deal with it but cameras and fines though
What! You mean Birmingham isn’t a prison 
most if not all of us will have used a hand held phone on the move, that was the way it was when they first came about, most of us will have driven over the drink drive limit in the dim and distant past but times move on and it’s not acceptable nowadays. Sploom is right in saying that not having an accident doesn’t make it any less of an offence but how are you going to use cameras to stop it, there are cameras everywhere in London and they can’t catch people committing crimes like stabbing or mugging so I guess using a hand held device is still going to be low on the list