I try to be courtesy at all times yep I do make mistakes like we all do but will let you past if you want to be flash you in etc
Ok not long ago I did have a bit play with another lorry let him past I did catch him up as knew I could ( ok I did know the driver he did phone me as well so we had a chat 
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I hate it as well but hey I now just leave it let them go
Drift:
TheNewBoy:
I have the swingers to admit I do all of the above…I am running 44 tonne 90% of the time in a 460 engine which is gutless for that weight & as soon as my momentum dies I might as well get out & push so if I can keep my speed I will…going down hill…well that’s another story as I will admit if I want to get passed some one I use the hill & my weight advantage to good use, BUT…I draw the line at 60mph, I have no need to drop the clutch I have gravitySo does that mean if your 1mph faster than the wagon in front you will take 3 miles to over take him
No…don’t be silly
I’ll take 10 miles
Good man 
This is why I would cruise at 50mph. Let everyone fuss over passing me. I was hourly, so I didn’t care.
Its not just lorry driving. The world these days is a much less polite place. Theres generally less consideration given to others. As for driving, I remember a time when if you were running empty, you **always** gave way to loaded trucks uphill, because you knew you would need it next time. It was just the done thing. Also when you flashed someone in they at least acknowledged it. You always got and gave help with your sheets, now theyre happy to sit and watch you struggle in the wind.
Its not very often I use sheets these days, but if you are ever in one of these steel stockists with a sheeted load and some geezer wanders over and gives you a hand with yours, its probably me, so say hello, it probably wont be anyone else. Ive had some amazed looks as I offer my help along with the lament that nobody does that anymore.
But as I say its a general decline in standards and morals ect.
Thenewboy,your name says it all 
because of cabbages like you this forum wouldn’t exist,thank you you’r a credit to the industry
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect another driver to slow down just to let me pass. It’s just it seems to happen more often that other drivers deliberately try to ■■■■ me off.
eg I have no problem if a fully loaded wagon goes over speed downhill whilst I’m trying to pass. It’s when they wait till I’ve pulled in behind them and then hit the brakes that makes it obvious that they’re trying to wind me up. Or when I overtake on level road and get half way past and they come off cruise control and go to max speed. Just a bit sad.
It really is a big problem with very little being done to prevent it YET.
They are childish people who should never be called professionals. They probably have the intelligence of a 10 year old but that’s probably stretching it a bit.
There is very little courteousy on the roads these days just aggression and downright rudeness.
Anybody that thinks it was like that 30 years ago is completely deluded.
The general public generally had nothing bad to say about lorry drivers back then but now nobody has anything good to say.
Standards have declined drastically and I am glad not to be associated with these clowns.
Silly burgers?
albion1971:
Standards have declined drastically and I am glad not to be associated with these clowns.
Yet here you are every day, associating with these clowns.
Had one do it today on M5 M & S coat and yellow jacket on caught up pulled out halfway alongside he speeds up and matches me so I just droppped back in behind what do they get out of it.
I’ll let people past no worries, unless I’m fully loaded climbing a steep hill like the M40 at Stokenchurch. Sorry but our 6w is only a 310 and at almost 14 years old I’m not letting off that throttle up until the hill levels off.
Ched:
Is it just me, or is it becoming more common for other lorry drivers deliberately messing you around on the road?I used to have a lorry with a very high limiter setting (60mph) so it was never a problem, but I’ve recently been using a slower one and noticed that when I try to over take, the person I’m overtaking speeds up like car drivers do so I can’t get past. Then they slow down again when I give up. Why? I know the riding on the limiter vs a few clicks below has been done to death, but why speed up just to stop someone overtaking?
I never understood this. If you want to drive at 37mph or 45 or whatever, I’ll generally just sit and wait for a decent passing place, but why when there is a place do so many speed up to stop you getting past. An overtake you could complete quite quickly and safely becomes one where the road is going to narrow again and you could end up being in a head on collision.
Contraflow:
Silly burgers?
Was guessing buggers would get zb’d out 
Very very seldom do i get any of that from other lorries, cos until they prove otherwise i assume the other lorry is manned by an imbecile, and an imbecile should always be in front of you so you can keep an eye on their chimp like antics, so if someone wants to muck me about they’d better be prepared for a slow journey, they can hold me out in the middle lane all day if they want, after a mile or so they can’t stand 51mph so they floor it and clear off, don’t let them get to you.
Luckily i’ve got all the time in the world, so set me cruise to 51mph or if i’m in a devil may care frame of mind i whap it right up to 52, let the world and all the lunatics go to hell…sometimes i actually overtake the odd motor, been known to increase speed to a whole 55 to get past Mr Tesco, was a time when Argos were set to 50 and i’d have to go to all that effort of overtaking them too but their new motors seem to be faster now thankfully, so some days i never overtake a single vehicle, excellent.
It wasn’t always like this of course, but increasingly, as the job has been dumbed down to chauffering only (and paid accordingly) and the lorries designed so the only input needed from the nob behind the wheel is to steer (which appears too difficult for some judging by how many manage to smash into each other), the percentages of nobs to drivers is going the wrong way at an increasing rate.
Life’s too short to let it get to you, the days of the lorry driver are over, the die hards of all ages still taking a pride in their profession stand out like a sore thumb among the dross and good on them for not joining the race to the lowest common denominator bottom.
comet:
Thenewboy,your name says it all
Just because my name says " thenewboy " I’m far from it…plus all the good names were taken[emoji14] & the last part I’ll take as a compliment
Juddian:
It wasn’t always like this of course, but increasingly, as the job has been dumbed down to chauffering only (and paid accordingly) and the lorries designed so the only input needed from the nob behind the wheel is to steer (which appears too difficult for some judging by how many manage to smash into each other), the percentages of nobs to drivers is going the wrong way at an increasing rate.Life’s too short to let it get to you, the days of the lorry driver are over, the die hards of all ages still taking a pride in their profession stand out like a sore thumb among the dross and good on them for not joining the race to the lowest common denominator bottom.
Agree entirely.
Thing is we are getting comments like ‘I never give way anymore been left in the middle lane too often’ which only goes to turn good drivers into joining the dross with Class 1s, resulting in more of those ■■■■■■ and fewer of us. 
robroy:
Juddian:
It wasn’t always like this of course, but increasingly, as the job has been dumbed down to chauffering only (and paid accordingly) and the lorries designed so the only input needed from the nob behind the wheel is to steer (which appears too difficult for some judging by how many manage to smash into each other), the percentages of nobs to drivers is going the wrong way at an increasing rate.Life’s too short to let it get to you, the days of the lorry driver are over, the die hards of all ages still taking a pride in their profession stand out like a sore thumb among the dross and good on them for not joining the race to the lowest common denominator bottom.
Agree entirely.
Thing is we are getting comments like ‘I never give way anymore been left in the middle lane too often’ which only goes to turn good drivers into joining the dross with Class 1s, resulting in more of those [zb], and fewer of us.
I can’t understand 'em, really i can’t.
When we could cruise all day at 70 (mph that is) you really didn’t want to lose momentum and it was worth getting by someone doing 20mph less than you or you wanted a run up for Shap, now there’s fractions of one single mph between most of the lorries, so all that pushing and shoving bullying jammed up someone’s arse trying to intimidate them to go a whole mph faster penning them in in case they hold you up 16 seconds, really and honestly WTF is it all about? driving like a pillock might make you 5 minutes on a journey…i can’t be arsed with 'em.
You’re right though, they’re infectious, like a bloody cancer.
I find if I meet a knob head in a social environment they general drive like a knob head in a car or a wagon, you can’t fix stupid, you just have to avoid them
TheNewBoy:
I have the swingers to admit I do all of the above…I am running 44 tonne 90% of the time in a 460 engine which is gutless for that weight & as soon as my momentum dies I might as well get out & push so if I can keep my speed I will…going down hill…well that’s another story as I will admit if I want to get passed some one I use the hill & my weight advantage to good use, BUT…I draw the line at 60mph, I have no need to drop the clutch I have gravity
really.
