edd1974:
Places where all the warehouse staff have to go for there break/dinner at the same time.
Why can’t they stagger there break times.or leave a couple of staff on have there break later/earlier.
There’s one or two Tesco RDCs where not only do they all go on break at the same time, but they all pile into the drivers’ room to do so.
I do quite a lot of driving in the early hours, over the last few months I’ve started seeing more and more car drivers using high beams while driving on motorways. Doesn’t make a difference to them whether they are travelling towards you or coming up behind, they keep their beams on until they’re a few hundred yards away, by which time they’ve been blinding you for miles!
Just seems to be a fairly new phenomenon, hopefully it dies off as quickly as it started
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CookieMonster:
I do quite a lot of driving in the early hours, over the last few months I’ve started seeing more and more car drivers using high beams while driving on motorways. Doesn’t make a difference to them whether they are travelling towards you or coming up behind, they keep their beams on until they’re a few hundred yards away, by which time they’ve been blinding you for miles!
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Hate these morons too, but some dipped headlights are so bright nowadays, it’s embarrassing when you give them full beams back and they put their beams on back at you 
the maoster:
Winseer:
“PCN camera” photobombers…Ever been under a gantry saying 50mph doing 49mph, only to have some boy racer tear past you, triggering the camera flash, but with the car totally eclipsed from the camara by your vehicle■■?
“You are fined £135 for doing 84mph though this 50mph temporary speed limit gantry sign”.
Really? - 84mph in a limited artic FFS■■?
(There’s clearly no other vehicle in shot sir. It therefore MUST have been you that triggered the speed camara!)Do you know of anybody that has ever happened to? I suspect you need to keep away from those RDC “hospitality suites” my friend. Next time you pass under a gantry take a gander at the camera per lane above them. Even if it was one of those jobbies on the nearside gantry the camera couldn’t see through your lorry to spot Max Verstappen passing you.
I do actually. Chap in question went past a country trunk road 50mph speed camera doing 46mph which wouldn’t have triggered it. Overtaking car doing 60+ triggers the camera, with my old mate’s vechicle eclipsing the offending car…
Trouble was, this was back in the days when single carriageway roads had a 40mph speed limit for artics on them!!! He duly got done for doing 46mph in what for him was a 40mph speed limit!
Fine+Court costs+4 points. 
I figure is it only a matter of time until some hapless “eclipsing artic driver” - gets busted for the more “yellow hammer” example I gave in my earlier post, whilst passing a gantry camera of the type that seems to be flashing like a Nightclub’s Strobe!
Winseer:
the maoster:
Winseer:
“PCN camera” photobombers…Ever been under a gantry saying 50mph doing 49mph, only to have some boy racer tear past you, triggering the camera flash, but with the car totally eclipsed from the camara by your vehicle■■?
“You are fined £135 for doing 84mph though this 50mph temporary speed limit gantry sign”.
Really? - 84mph in a limited artic FFS■■?
(There’s clearly no other vehicle in shot sir. It therefore MUST have been you that triggered the speed camara!)Do you know of anybody that has ever happened to? I suspect you need to keep away from those RDC “hospitality suites” my friend. Next time you pass under a gantry take a gander at the camera per lane above them. Even if it was one of those jobbies on the nearside gantry the camera couldn’t see through your lorry to spot Max Verstappen passing you.
I do actually. Chap in question went past a country trunk road 50mph speed camera doing 46mph which wouldn’t have triggered it. Overtaking car doing 60+ triggers the camera, with my old mate’s vechicle eclipsing the offending car…
Trouble was, this was back in the days when single carriageway roads had a 40mph speed limit for artics on them!!! He duly got done for doing 46mph in what for him was a 40mph speed limit!
Fine+Court costs+4 points.
I figure is it only a matter of time until some hapless “eclipsing artic driver” - gets busted for the more “yellow hammer” example I gave in my earlier post, whilst passing a gantry camera of the type that seems to be flashing like a Nightclub’s Strobe!
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This particular gantry set of cameras - springs to mind. (That guy pulling three pushbikes - looks a bit dodgy as well imo.)
Er - you do know there are a good few fixed cameras on single carriageway A-roads which can detect large vehicles and trigger at a correspondingly lower speed? The one that used to be on the A5 near MIRA, and another opposite the Belfry near Sutton Coldfield spring to mind (I have personal experience of the first-mentioned…)
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Lorry drivers who leave their cab and have a p…s in full view of everybody in a service station car park in broad daylight when the toilet block is only 10 seconds walk.
How about the lazy b’stads that ram the curtain pole in and wind it up with the curtain folded instead of taking 2 seconds to straighten it out, and needing a crowbar to get the pole out next time
idrive:
How about the lazy b’stads that ram the curtain pole in and wind it up with the curtain folded instead of taking 2 seconds to straighten it out, and needing a crowbar to get the pole out next time
And the ones who winp up the whole slack on one pole only.
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?
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Are you suggesting or under the impression it’s illegal, if so you are totally wrong…it aint.
Well, the number plate thing is nice to know, I’ve got UK and EU plates,trailer I picked up last week, (this week? It all blurs) had zero fittings for either. I faffed about trying to run a chain or cable through one. Should just stick it in the back door pocket. Thanks pal!!
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McPlod:
Lorry drivers who leave their cab and have a p…s in full view of everybody in a service station car park in broad daylight when the toilet block is only 10 seconds walk.
100% Correct Mr. Mcplod
On a lovely sunny day where you look forward to parking up and catching some rays and you get hit by the stench or even worse when you bring one of your kids with you and they now they discover you are at the lower end of the food chain and not really a road hero after all… thanks to a few of the laziest brethren.
But thread carefully as when that topic was raised before there was huge support for the drivers who peed on their own workplace, living place, truck,to save time as walking to the toilet would have cost millions similar to a city trader apparently.
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The new messiah greta thunberg, would not what that as a kid of mine
The fact that a street on my Bristol delivery route now has a large piece of graffiti in homage to Grotty Thunderbag or what ever Chuckys’ missus is called.
the maoster:
Graffiti that is misspelled.
Even better than misspelt graffiti is misspelt signage. There is a sign on the outskirts of Littlehampton on the Bognor road which invites you to visit a cafe that also sells fishing tackel. I shake my head every time I pass it!! Lol
ezydriver:
When you nod and say hello to a fellow driver collegue etc, and they look right through you and say nothing.
Also one of my pet hates.
Fizzifish:
the maoster:
Graffiti that is misspelled.Even better than misspelt graffiti is misspelt signage. There is a sign on the outskirts of Littlehampton on the Bognor road which invites you to visit a cafe that also sells fishing tackel. I shake my head every time I pass it!! Lol
One that happens to me more often than it should, and it’s truly in my top 3 pet hates.
I’m driving in lane 1 and see flashing lights ahead, and realise it’s a recovery job on the hardshoulder. When I see this I always move lane if I can. But often matey behind me doesn’t follow suit, and instead sees this as an opportunity to begin undertaking me… and it’s not always a car driver.
ezydriver:
One that happens to me more often than it should, and it’s truly in my top 3 pet hates.I’m driving in lane 1 and see flashing lights ahead, and realise it’s a recovery job on the hardshoulder. When I see this I always move lane if I can. But often matey behind me doesn’t follow suit, and instead sees this as an opportunity to begin undertaking me… and it’s not always a car driver.
Car drivers who do that…amateurs with little common sense who know no better.
But if a truck driver does it (who really ought to know better 
) you’re actually dealing with the cerebrally challenged on those occasions which takes the discussion to another level.
You can not educate pork. 
Self…
Appointed road commanders dictating who can pass them and who can’t in queuing traffic.
McDonald’s breakfast menu. It’s terrible, I stopped going there after 5 a.m.
Motorway adverts in fields,especially that ugly bearded cretin on the m25 Rickmansworth way.Tempted to buy a paint gun,or flamethrower.
