Hampstead Heath…A right pain in the arse. 
I wouldn’t know darling 
Muckaway:
Hampstead Heath…A right pain in the arse.
Is that from experience? Hampstead Heath after dark and all that go’s with it 
Going to be renamed Hampton Heath from what I hear
Lorry driver to pedestrian — “scuse me mate, Hampton Court?”
Pedestrian ---- "no pal, I’ve always walked like this "
Bernard
Quality
My moment of glory was in the 80s. Running 60ft tr’s out of Lackenby steel works. One Saturday near Xmas picked up tr and headed home. Used to drop tr in town centre car park, bob tailing home solo, that had about 10 lorry bays backing up to a 4ft high concrete wall. As I pulled up at about 2pm a car had just parked in the last free lorry bay. On asking him to pull out so i could park there I was impolitely told where to put my vehicle, didnt attempt it as it sounded like it would be painfull. Stood about 10 mins when a warden appeared, asked him what i should do as my time was running out. He told me to park across the bays blocking in the cars that were in the l/bays,trapping about 6 cars, as he was sick of them ignoring him. While he ticketed the cars I dropped my tr, leaving them about 5ft to play with, removing all bulbs and lenses of course. Called in to the local cop shop and told the desk officer what I’d done and that I would be back early Monday morning, as they had my phone number he told me to go home and they’d only ring if needed. Got back on the Monday morning to find 2 cars still trapped. Called at police station and they told of the fun they’d had on the Saturday with some very irate car drivers, apparently it had made their day. Funnily the bays were empty the following Saturday, strange that.
If i have some spare time i block cars in with bins, usually the heaviest/hardest to move I can find and put the brakes on. 
i consider myself to be king of the road and i was taught many years ago that part of my job is to look after the small car drivers as there not as skillfull a driver as me, and that means in all areas of driving i have to be a professional including trying to use my size in a bully boy manner.
just what do they teach drivers these days when there learning to drive ? its getting more common now with drivers trying to bully the car drivers etc
there was a guy doing his 56mph on the motorway heading into road works and there was a car bombing along trying hard to over take the artic before the road cones kicked in to force them into 2 lanes rather than the 3
the artic guy seen the car coming up in his mirror and kept his speed as fast as it could go to make sure the car couldn’t over take him and sure enough the car went ploughing into the road cones.
nice job some might say but then what do we do next ?
come to a slip road round about and cut up the cars that are going to try to over take us ? we know car drivers are going to try to over take us in all sorts of ways the trick is to spot them before an accident can happen hence we look after them without them ever knowing it
or thats how i was taught to drive it different now i take it ?
desypete:
there was a guy doing his 56mph on the motorway heading into road works and there was a car bombing along trying hard to over take the artic before the road cones kicked in to force them into 2 lanes rather than the 3
the artic guy seen the car coming up in his mirror and kept his speed as fast as it could go to make sure the car couldn’t over take him and sure enough the car went ploughing into the road cones.
In fairness, no one is responsible for where the car ends up other than the car driver. Anyone trying to overtake a truck - or any other vehicle - at the last minute should have a clear escape route, or maybe think ahead a little further. What someone who just drives his car into road cones, rather than backing off in good time to avoid them, is doing with a driving licence I’m at a loss to imagine.
ThrustMaster:
0I could have called a taxi-driving mate of mine, who in turn would have got some of his mates to make life very difficult for this guy who was unloading 25kgs bags of feed off the back.
But I’m not a [zb]…unlike some of you lot on here.
Live and let live and all that.
That looks like it’s probably a loading bay through the day and a taxi bay at night, as most in city centres are
I read on some parking guidelines website that “loading” when in a car isn’t going to Tesco Express for groceries as that’s not defined as loading. If said vehicle parked up and went to collect something pre ordered (say from Argos, DIY shop etc) it is loading. It did also advise car drivers this would not guarantee them a parking ticket or chance of a successful appeal.
Rhythm Thief:
desypete:
there was a guy doing his 56mph on the motorway heading into road works and there was a car bombing along trying hard to over take the artic before the road cones kicked in to force them into 2 lanes rather than the 3
the artic guy seen the car coming up in his mirror and kept his speed as fast as it could go to make sure the car couldn’t over take him and sure enough the car went ploughing into the road cones.In fairness, no one is responsible for where the car ends up other than the car driver. Anyone trying to overtake a truck - or any other vehicle - at the last minute should have a clear escape route, or maybe think ahead a little further. WHat someone who just drives his car into road cones, rather than backing off in good time to avoid them, is doing with a driving licence I’m at a loss to imagine.
i to am at a loss how half the car drivers end up with a license as they pull stunts all the time, but that’s the point as a professional driver we are trained or should be trained to look out for the cars that are going to undercut us. this guy could of slowed down and let the car pass him but he choose instead to let the car run right into the cones. he wouldn’t of had to do an emergency stop or anything all he had to do was ease up on the gas but he was as guilty as the car driver as he was making sure the car wouldn’t pass him. so it was a game of high speed chicken if you like. and there is the problem the guy is a class 1 driver and he shouldn’t be driving with that attitude, it was no accident as he had the choice to make. yes the car driver was a mad man to even try to i know what your saying there but the point is the class 1 should of looked after that guy and sadly todays drivers just dont seem to drive that way anymore or maybe its just me i have more patients than most ?
“He chose instead to let the car run right into the cones”. No, he didn’t. The only person who made that happen is the car driver, no one else. Sure, the truck driver could have backed off, but in the end no one but the driver of the car is responsible for where his car ended up.
desypete:
Rhythm Thief:
desypete:
there was a guy doing his 56mph on the motorway heading into road works and there was a car bombing along trying hard to over take the artic before the road cones kicked in to force them into 2 lanes rather than the 3
the artic guy seen the car coming up in his mirror and kept his speed as fast as it could go to make sure the car couldn’t over take him and sure enough the car went ploughing into the road cones.In fairness, no one is responsible for where the car ends up other than the car driver. Anyone trying to overtake a truck - or any other vehicle - at the last minute should have a clear escape route, or maybe think ahead a little further. WHat someone who just drives his car into road cones, rather than backing off in good time to avoid them, is doing with a driving licence I’m at a loss to imagine.
i to am at a loss how half the car drivers end up with a license as they pull stunts all the time, but that’s the point as a professional driver we are trained or should be trained to look out for the cars that are going to undercut us. this guy could of slowed down and let the car pass him but he choose instead to let the car run right into the cones. he wouldn’t of had to do an emergency stop or anything all he had to do was ease up on the gas but he was as guilty as the car driver as he was making sure the car wouldn’t pass him. so it was a game of high speed chicken if you like. and there is the problem the guy is a class 1 driver and he shouldn’t be driving with that attitude, it was no accident as he had the choice to make. yes the car driver was a mad man to even try to i know what your saying there but the point is the class 1 should of looked after that guy and sadly todays drivers just dont seem to drive that way anymore or maybe its just me i have more patients than most ?
HA HA HA, nice 1… Oh, wait, you mean less patients and more patience? 
I was unloading at a bakery in Summerhills, Bristol this morning; Some smart arse shouts from his car “do you not know your highway code? Double yellows mean no parking!”
He just drove off when I said “now read yours again for the bit about making deliveries…”
Ignorant ■■■■■■.