I have no “pet hates” My life is too short to become wound-up by others I shall never meet, I see it as entertainment, that way it amuses me.
Right turner’s at roundabouts who don’t use an indicator or the correct lane and then proceed to blast ME with their horn when I start to pull out.
I have an irrational obsession with number plate legality it seems.
Illegal number plate format/spacing winds me up. Like surely you’ve been pulled enough times by the police to think it’s not worth the bother, but have they though.
Foreign tractor units, say on a Romanian plate but the trailer is on a German plate.
Foreign trailers on uk plates but the driver doesn’t have correct size plate for the fitting, so hangs it square in one of those plastic ADR wallets stuck to the back door.
Alfa1M:
Right turner’s at roundabouts who don’t use an indicator or the correct lane and then proceed to blast ME with their horn when I start to pull out.I have an irrational obsession with number plate legality it seems.
Illegal number plate format/spacing winds me up. Like surely you’ve been pulled enough times by the police to think it’s not worth the bother, but have they though.
Foreign tractor units, say on a Romanian plate but the trailer is on a German plate.
Foreign trailers on uk plates but the driver doesn’t have correct size plate for the fitting, so hangs it square in one of those plastic ADR wallets stuck to the back door.
I’ll go with you on your first point…but what is the problem to actually ‘‘hate,’’ with an international truck with non matching National plates? 
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Are you suggesting or under the impression it’s illegal, if so you are totally wrong…it aint. 
People who dont have a basic understanding of road markings or road signs.
Left arrow in your lane means left turn not undertake n straight on etc.
But thing I hate is most.
You can be travelling along.on a 40mph quite legally then there’s a 40mph sign and a speed camera.
the car in front then sees the speed camera doesn’t see the speed sign next to it
Slams his brakes on slows to to 30 then once past the camera speeds back up to 40.
It really annoys me. If the cars speeding I get that they slow down
But seriously if your driving within the limit why do drivers insist on slamming there brakes on when the see a camera.
Same on a motorway there can be a police car doing 60 and despite the legal.speed being 70 not many dare to overtake.
robroy:
Alfa1M:
Right turner’s at roundabouts who don’t use an indicator or the correct lane and then proceed to blast ME with their horn when I start to pull out.I have an irrational obsession with number plate legality it seems.
Illegal number plate format/spacing winds me up. Like surely you’ve been pulled enough times by the police to think it’s not worth the bother, but have they though.
Foreign tractor units, say on a Romanian plate but the trailer is on a German plate.
Foreign trailers on uk plates but the driver doesn’t have correct size plate for the fitting, so hangs it square in one of those plastic ADR wallets stuck to the back door.
I’ll go with you on your first point…but what is the problem to actually ‘‘hate,’’ with an international truck with non matching National plates?
Are you suggesting or under the impression it’s illegal, if so you are totally wrong…it aint.
Not questioning the legality, assume it can be traced back anyway. I think I just have OCD with numbers, I should either get a life or a doctor, not sure Which. Either way it’s certainly a pet hate.
Also number plates with BMW emblems in them . Because we can’t see what there driving without it can we…,
And lorry drivers with Scania attire .
Or a Mercedes emblem covering the back wall of the cab
Car drivers who think that switching on their rear fog lights allows them to drive at the same speed (or usually faster) in poor visibility as they would if it was clear. And then forgetting to switch the ■■■■ things off again.
Drivers who can’t be arsed to fix faulty lights. Yes, I know a bulb can blow at any time; but I’ve been on a regular trunk run for the last three or four months, you do tend to see the same vehicles at roughly the same place and time, and some of them have been going around on one headlight for weeks. If it was us lorry drivers we’d get jumped on and fined, because “we could cause an accident”… how many times have you had to swerve or brake to avoid some one-eyed muppet in a car which you genuinely thought was a motorbike?
Still on the subject of illumination, or rather lack of it… why, in this day and age, is it still perfectly legal to drive on side lights, particularly on motorways? The Yanks, quite rightly, call them “parking lamps” and that’s exactly what they are. Back in the day when we had crap batteries and dynamos it was perhaps understandable in towns and cities… not any more.
People who excuse bad driving because the driver is elderly. Sorry but if your reactions are slow enough that 38 in a 60 limit seems fast then it’s time to sell the Honda Jazz and time to ride the Age UK minibus.
Drivers that insist on starting a slow overtake just as the lane drop dotted lines start… They got over 2 miles before the junction, rather than one.
Live hard shoulder lanes, where you can see debris scattered about. Another reason I use them as little as I can get away with.
Other vehicles that undertake, and then barge in front whilst braking - because they are going to go under a red ‘x’ gantry otherwise. FFS I shouldn’t have to perform “shut out” moves by hogging more than one lane on coned-down approaches…
People that pull onto the hard shoulder, or worse - into a refuge - just to make or answer a phone call.
Trucks that park under motorway bridges.
Bread rigids that insist on jumping onto the bay just as I’m reversing back onto it “I’ve only got two stacks for this drop guv”.
People that overtake and then hog the exit space just as I finally have enough of a gap to get across a junction box in one hit - leaving me high and dry. “Shut out move” - not available in this locale.
Drivers that sit in the idiot space, and then slow down. Pull out to overtake them - and they accelerate. You fall back in behind them - and they slow down again. Repeat ad nauseum.
Gas guzzlers that drive economically. Buy a smaller engine - if you want to save fuel FFS!
Gas guzzlers that shop at discounter supermarkets. Must have cost a tenner’s worth of fuel to get there - and then buy less than a hand basket full of stuff!
Interesting articles on the radio - just as I’m entering a tunnel.
Elephant and Castle cyclists.
Totally irrational and irrelevant pet hates. Yep
I’ve always hated being called ‘drive’. I know they don’t know my name but call me buddy, mate, dog breath, anything but soddin DRIVE!! arrrgh 
Ok drive-wolfbreath it is 
ArcticMonkey:
msgyorkie:
The “Give Helch a break” on the M25 bridge. I used to like the “give peas a chance” untill that ■■■■■■ had changed it.
BTW who the hell is Helch?
…just wind down your window - and inhale deeply. 
Lonewolf Yorks:
Totally irrational and irrelevant pet hates. YepI’ve always hated being called ‘drive’. I know they don’t know my name but call me buddy, mate, dog breath, anything but soddin DRIVE!! arrrgh
“Driver Drive” seems to be the full name there.
“Put your keys on the hook, Driver Drive.”
(Especially if your name is something like Steve Stevens or Bob Roberts) 
I like how everybody puts in one or two pet hates… Robroy then writes a tome!
Lord help us if Juddian starts!!
Win-Stone:
I like how everybody puts in one or two pet hates… Robroy then writes a tome!Lord help us if Juddian starts!!
It’s to do with the length of time you do the job, then you realise that there are so many different varieties of d/head that get on yer ■■■■.
robroy:
Win-Stone:
I like how everybody puts in one or two pet hates… Robroy then writes a tome!Lord help us if Juddian starts!!
It’s to do with the length of time you do the job, then you realise that there are so many different varieties of d/head that gets on yer ■■■■.
Tell me about it… I could comfortably fill ten pages myself. I thought that starting with a single example was actually incredibly restrained!
robroy:
Win-Stone:
I like how everybody puts in one or two pet hates… Robroy then writes a tome!Lord help us if Juddian starts!!
It’s to do with the length of time you do the job, then you realise that there are so many different varieties of d/head that get on yer ■■■■.
I get it, here someone give that knife sticking out me back a twist will yer it aint hurting enough 
Robroy covered most of it, and i agree about the time line when the downhill run accelerated, but i’d also include the shift to auto boxes as the big game changer, when wagons had proper gearboxes (preferably constant no synchronised mesh) you had to be capable of exerting some control over the motor, since a switch replaced the gearstick any bloody fool can get behind the wheel and that’s exactly what has happened.
Yes i know the proper younger and newer lorry drivers would manage fine no matter what bloody gearbox as fitted, same as us old buggers did, and yes we all played a tune on 'em for a while till we got the knack.
Just take a look in your own yards, we all work with complete bloody numpties who you just know would never cope with actually controlling a lorry fully themselves, and if you presented them with a half a dozen ropes and three sheets they’d be long gone, and we’d all be better for it, and no i don’t want to a return to those days but the dumbing down or deskilling of the job over the last 12/15 years in particular has had a huge effect on the roads, many babies got thrown out with the bathwater.
Just look at all the anti crash stuff that’s now being fitted, some by the makers and lots more besides depending on where you work, and no matter how much crap they fit the numpties are still turning the whole bloody lot over on straight roads and ramming each other up the arse on motorways where the variations between speeds is minimal and every bugger is going in the same direction for crying out loud.
Sadly just like in so many other spheres these days, it’s obvious summat’s gone badly wrong in our industry, but instead of those in power taking a step back and reviewing things with an open mind, no hope, it aint working so we’ll do more of the same and compel more electronic crap until it does work 
Muckaway:
People who excuse bad driving because the driver is elderly. Sorry but if your reactions are slow enough that 38 in a 60 limit seems fast then it’s time to sell the Honda Jazz and time to ride the Age UK minibus.
…Or flog the Honda ■■■■, and get on the change UK minibus, whilst it still exists that is…
Winseer:
Live hard shoulder lanes where you can see debris scattered about, another reason I use them as little as I can get away with.Trucks that park under motorway bridges.
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Winseer mate, at least my list directly affected and involved me personally, …
How tf does other drivers (who have zero bearing on you) '‘who choose to park under bridges’…(I’m assuming you mean foreigners on slip roads) bother you so much to be a hate.
Would you overnight under a bridge? …
No me neither, so unless I did want to, or I I was a traffic copper it wouldn’t even be on my radar.
And all that ■■■■■■■■ about not using adapted lane 1s, you missed your usual ‘‘Driving an Instrument of death’’ mantra on this occasion. ,.
I reckon you should be nicked for lane hogging and slowing the flow of traffic…and where exactly is all this inundation of debris you’re on about? …where are you driving the Beirut ■■■■ expressway?
Sorry mate, if I’m nothing else I’m brutally honest…truth is you just ■■■■ irritate me.
Y`all need to let so much go, rationalise it and how it actually affects you, you will soon realise that it does not, unless you allow it to…I just do not or cannot understand why anyone would allow such petty things to affect them in such a negative way each and every day, it sounds like purgatory to me, imagine going out of your way to experience such negative emotional thoughts…Your emotional experiences could be so much better if you actually quantified the real impact upon your existence…People are always going to be twunts, so what is new?
Tude:
Y`all need to let so much go, rationalise it and how it actually affects you, you will soon realise that it does not, unless you allow it to…I just do not or cannot understand why anyone would allow such petty things to affect them in such a negative way each and every day, it sounds like purgatory to me, imagine going out of your way to experience such negative emotional thoughts…Your emotional experiences could be so much better if you actually quantified the real impact upon your existence…People are always going to be twunts, so what is new?
Thank you Paul McKenna
First on MY original list (and most of the others in fact) DOES affect me.
If some inept arse wipe in an artic cuts in on me, either forcing me to brake swerve or both, and could quite easiiy have put me down an embankment, injuring me or worse, then I’m afraid I’m going to be severely ■■■■■■ about the situation, and want to rip his ■■■■ head off.
Now in your case in the same scenario, if you can sit back, relax and just say ‘‘Now how can I rationalise that’’ …well you’re a more placid and tolerant bloke than I have ever been mate.