Groupon have an event on where you can have “Lorry Driving Experience”!
£49 gets you a go in a 480bhp Magnum with a 55ft transporter trailer.
It would be interesting to see if they view lorries & their drivers differently following the experience?
How long before steady eddie starts charging his own drivers for the “Lorry Driving Experience” lol.
Fileep:
Groupon have an event on where you can have “Lorry Driving Experience”!£49 gets you a go in a 480bhp Magnum with a 55ft transporter trailer.
It would be interesting to see if they view lorries & their drivers differently following the experience?
How long before steady eddie starts charging his own drivers for the “Lorry Driving Experience” lol.
The driving test process should include a mandatory ride in a HGV so that as a passenger they would see the roads from our point of view. Then they should be put in the drivers seat and asked to point out blind spots etc. this would cut hundreds of accidents each year.
Fileep:
Groupon have an event on where you can have “Lorry Driving Experience”!£49 gets you a go in a 480bhp Magnum with a 55ft transporter trailer.
It would be interesting to see if they view lorries & their drivers differently following the experience?
How long before steady eddie starts charging his own drivers for the “Lorry Driving Experience” lol.
Maybe the ‘lorry driving experience’ could include doing a few drops at the same time - transport firm’s would be queuing up to endorse this scheme!!!
thelorryist:
The driving test process should include a mandatory ride in a HGV so that as a passenger they would see the roads from our point of view. Then they should be put in the drivers seat and asked to point out blind spots etc. this would cut hundreds of accidents each year.
Thought this for a long time. An hour as a passenger in an HGV with a running commentary from an experienced HGV driver. I genuinely think this would save lives.
I would also like to see motorists given the chance to broaden their understanding of what and why we do things like road positioning.
Should everyone passing their test have to take a spin on their bicycle to identify hazards whilst using cycle lanes? Should everyone jump on the back of a motorbike to consider the risks? How about we adapt some bus cabs to have a trip out with a driver…
Whilst I agree with you in theory, I think it’s highly impractical. In reality, passing your test and learning to drive are two completely different things; not to mention the volume of people (each test centre runs what, 6-10 candidates a time? In their own cars mind) that you’d require to put through a ‘HGV Induction’.
I think most “drivers” with no view to a career involving driving probably wouldn’t benefit on the basis they wouldn’t take it seriously enough for it to be beneficial. Anyone that is interested in improving their driving or is heavily involved driving non-commercially (long commutes between offices / field-based work) will likely attend an advanced driving course in their own time.
Nice idea, but I’d be simply amazed if it was ever implemented.
FreddieSwan:
Should everyone passing their test have to take a spin on their bicycle to identify hazards whilst using cycle lanes? Should everyone jump on the back of a motorbike to consider the risks? How about we adapt some bus cabs to have a trip out with a driver…Whilst I agree with you in theory, I think it’s highly impractical. In reality, passing your test and learning to drive are two completely different things; not to mention the volume of people (each test centre runs what, 6-10 candidates a time? In their own cars mind) that you’d require to put through a ‘HGV Induction’.
I think most “drivers” with no view to a career involving driving probably wouldn’t benefit on the basis they wouldn’t take it seriously enough for it to be beneficial. Anyone that is interested in improving their driving or is heavily involved driving non-commercially (long commutes between offices / field-based work) will likely attend an advanced driving course in their own time.
Nice idea, but I’d be simply amazed if it was ever implemented.
+1
The situation is that most people that drive cars simply aren’t interested in much, let alone any thing else on the roads. Your general public seems to have the idea that a car is just a thing to get them from one point to another, and they only have to put in as little effort as they can to do that simple task. For most trucks are just a menace, and motor bikes are dangerous. Most think that it’s their right to drive, not a privilege, attitudes over the years have changed and not only to driving.
Most are fairly oblivious to every thing else that’s going on in the world why should they have to worry about whats happening on the roads around them as well. As long as they don’t hit their vehicle so hard that it’s not drivable, or if they rub another vehicle in the car park and no one saw them they just don’t seem to care, any way isn’t that why they pay for insurance ■■? .
I’ll have to finish this text quickly as there’s a round about coming up and I don’t want to spill my coffee I have in my other hand…
Jeff…
Fileep:
Groupon have an event on where you can have “Lorry Driving Experience”!£49 gets you a go in a 480bhp Magnum with a 55ft transporter trailer.
It would be interesting to see if they view lorries & their drivers differently following the experience?
How long before steady eddie starts charging his own drivers for the “Lorry Driving Experience” lol.
I will bet a few of the dreamers on here will be booking to have a go in a higher powered truck!!
Can I be so bold to suggest that all potential road users at the first instance should experience riding a horse, before making the step up to mechanized transportation.
Yes before gaining a licence they have to do 20 hours horse riding and 20 hours cycling.That would change the view of a few moaners on here.
Back to the subject in hand.A good few years ago when I worked for a private training company they had open days some weekends and the general public were invited to come along and see the difference between a truck and a car.
This was especially aimed at children crossing in front of a truck which in reality should never happen.
In general the view from most adults was not how little they could see but the majority seemed amazed at how much they could see from the height of the cab.If they so wished they were taken for a short drive as a passenger and most of the ones that went said they thought the visibility was far better than they expected.
chester:
Can I be so bold to suggest that all potential road users at the first instance should experience riding a horse, before making the step up to mechanized transportation.
Sod that i ain’t getting on a horse.
thelorryist:
The driving test process should include a mandatory ride in a HGV so that as a passenger they would see the roads from our point of view. Then they should be put in the drivers seat and asked to point out blind spots etc. this would cut hundreds of accidents each year.
Absolutely +1 on that point.
Ken.
Only just seen this.
Had a nosey at the Groupon (what’s Groupon??) site at the details. Also looked at another site. Minimum height requirement for both is 5’4. So how tall/petite are the ladies on here??
chester:
Can I be so bold to suggest that all potential road users at the first instance should experience riding a horse, before making the step up to mechanized transportation.
Even that’s going too far, most of them struggle with bicycles.
thelorryist:
Fileep:
Groupon have an event on where you can have “Lorry Driving Experience”!£49 gets you a go in a 480bhp Magnum with a 55ft transporter trailer.
It would be interesting to see if they view lorries & their drivers differently following the experience?
How long before steady eddie starts charging his own drivers for the “Lorry Driving Experience” lol.
The driving test process should include a mandatory ride in a HGV so that as a passenger they would see the roads from our point of view. Then they should be put in the drivers seat and asked to point out blind spots etc. this would cut hundreds of accidents each year.
Do you think this would also slow down HGV drivers?
No, I’m not talking about on the “open road” but B roads and country lanes while chasing the sugar beet.
Nah, didnt think so but everyone has to pander to the poor lorry driver cos he knows best.
perhaps the ■■■■ ‘driving’ a Dentressangle artic who pulled out in front of me today exiting Northampton M1 services n/b causing me to make an emergency stop would learn something from going on one of these courses?
I think it’s a great idea, especially as a few of the nieces and nephews have done their car test, and three out of the 4 instructors were slating lorry drivers, as arseoles, a bloody nusance, getting in the way etc, only one actually went through why lorries position themselves where they do, what the headlight flash and the quick flash of indicators means and also purposely took my neice up to Cathorpe and showed how easy it is to be in a blind spot.
National grid take a unit and trailer into schools to demonstrate to children how invisible they are to a lorry driver they sit them in the cab whilst other kids scream out ect its a very worthwhile scheme