glencarron:
why would anyone drive on the limiter with a wide load ?
i have done plenty of times, as long as its not stgo heavy and he got past you without running you off the road i dont see its anything to get excited about really
This ^^^^^^^ . I pass loads of things in mine. I aint hanging about while you lug your 28 tonnes of baked beans around. Just cos it’s big don’t mean it’s heavy
OK but what does it gain by taking the risk? another poster said he met it and had to take evasive action, and anyway it wasn’t baked beans it was bacon
Couldn’t tell ya, I wasn’t there. Could be any number of reasons. If you think being late for a Tosscoland booking is bad, imagine the cost of a crane and workmen sitting ?. Maybe he’s just a tool?. Maybe you both overestimated the risks and over reacted?. Maybe the other poster wasn’t looking ahead and didn’t see it coming(a fairly regular occurance believe me, despite the flashing lights whiners complain about on here and even with an ■■■■■■)?, maybe he couldn’t because of the nature of the road?.
No reports of any accidents so I guess he got it there without drama.
Personally I’ve found that many drivers like to consider themselves as, forgive the irony, Billybigrigs and assume they have right of way as they are the biggest on the road. They don’t think they’re gonna meet anything bigger and so are unprepared, surprised and all kinds of peed off when they do and have to get out of the way.
For what it’s worth I go to Scotland a bit and of anywhere in the country the wagon drivers seem more aware of their surroundings and helpful to wide/long loads, even the timber lads hang back at the narrow bits
glencarron:
Coming down from Aberdeen this afternoon just after Newtonhill , I looked in my mirror and could see a truck about a quarter mile behind me , he was clearly carrying a wide load it was a red steel frame with chevrons attached I would guess it had about a 3 foot overhang each side, he was going into the middle of the road to avoid signs at the side of the road.
I was driving an arctic fully freighted and doing 52 mph on a dual carriageway , he pulled out and overtook me no wonder accidents happen
I would have pulled into the next layby for my own safety as I knew he was going to overtake but I did not get the chance.
No doubt someone will say “so what” in my opinion there was no way this was a safe
manoeuvre why would anyone drive on the limiter with a wide load ?
As long as no accidents whats the problem■■? So what if he waas on the large side he knew there was room to do it. With a 3ft (which is less then 1 mtr) overhang either side on a dual carriage way (which you should both have been doing 50mph not 52 mph if you wanna get funny) he wouldnt have been in the middle of the road to avoid road sign. I carry large steel cages from South Wales all over the country so does that mean if i get stuck behind a go slow tesco driver I gotta sit there till he decides to pull off??
No doubt someone will say “so what” in my opinion there was no way this was a safe
manoeuvre why would anyone drive on the limiter with a wide load ?
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Used to overtake all the time whilst taking wide loads of concrete.The exciting bit was getting into the towns.
If he didn’t hit you it seems your opinion was wrong unless of course you have experience of wide loads to which I then of course submit to your judgement.
zzarbean:
Seen it happen often with caravan/mobile home transporters taking up lanes 2&3 of a motorway with all lights flashing and the ■■■■■■ vehicle tagging along behind passing trucks travelling at normal speed.
Rather extracting the urine me thinks
I do that take up lanes 2&3 if im escorting a wideload and its over taking a tesco truck or anything for that matter , but i have a reason now we come up to slow moving truck now we could at a squeeze fit it into one lane but its going to be tight , now say the truck we are passing catches a cross wind or has a wee wobble the escorted truck is going to move away from what he is over taking at the same time mrs broon in the outside lane is trying to pass , panics and ends up in the barrier so to save this problem i get lane 2 and 3 and it out zoom and back in anti hassle , Now caravans only weight about 8/10 ton max and some boats are about same , why should we sit behind something on a hill thats fully freighted at 44t and doing 35mph ,
Now had a good one the other week over the CB on the m74 at Larkhall pro-mouth pipes up why dont they run the over hang on hard shoulder and let the cars past , simple its ilegal to run on hardshoulder or encroach on it , it gets you 3 points and a fine ,
We do wide loads, 4.5m wide 30 m long, we run at 50 mph so as to allow others to pass, if i catch you up and i get my ■■■■■■ man to block downane two and three to overtake you when im doing 5ph on a motorway. Your causing an obstruction, pull ovee onto the hard shoulder and get out of my way. Happens to me daily.
Hiya going back a few years i drove a Bedford KM NBA842P. it was 7 years old at the time. it did
an amazing 48mph. yes i was doing distance work anything from Hove to Inverness and all places
between. i don’t have a list of what and how many vehicles passed me but you can be sure it was a lot.
when it come to oversized loads they did’t bother staying behind.guess what it was a bloody well payed
job, if only it was still the same today i’d still be doing it.I got pulled at peas pottage weigh bridge one
time, going up the hill slow…when i got on the weighbridge i told them i was empty.
John
I have it on video - still makes me smile 
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