I know SOME car drivers can be dicks. I’ll just get that out there, but plenty of truck drivers also can.
I was out today and got a tyre pressure warning light in my car. Pulled up in next services and checked pressures. One was right down so I chucked the space saver spare on, meaning I was then restricted to 50mph.
This meant that obviously HGV drivers were overtaking me in my car. Out of about 20 HGVs and one coach, the coach started moving back into lane 1 before his coach had even got all the way past me, and out of the HGVs I flashed EVERY single one back in, but only 1 or 2 actually said thank you, one of which was a Dutch truck. The rest found it too much trouble to flash the indicators at me…most I can almost guarantee would have if I’d done the same thing but driving my truck.
Is it just a thing that as professional drivers we hate car drivers so much that we can’t even say thank you when they’ve done something courteous to try and help you out?
No need for the negativity Joe royal. Don’t think the poster was ranting, just an observation from another seat. Another seat of which there are 21 million of, and make no wonder they hold us in such low regard if this is how we behave.
mick.mh2racing:
No need for the negativity Joe royal. Don’t think the poster was ranting, just an observation from another seat. Another seat of which there are 21 million of, and make no wonder they hold us in such low regard if this is how we behave.
sent using smoke signals
Exactly my point. We just get seen as a bunch of bullies who think they own the road. I wonder why…
I should never have to overtake a car on a motorway. Fair enough, if you’ve got a problem that restricts you to 50 MPH, but every one of these morons that sit there doing 53.92343 MPH and hang you out for five minutes when you try to overtake them, even after giving them plenty of time to speed up or slow down a bit, could just back off when being overtaken, surely?
The best ones are the ones who give you big flashes after doing so, as if they’re doing you a favour… They can ■■■■ right off.
Most probably weren’t expecting to be flashed back in by a car so only looked when they wanted to move back missing the flash, even more depending what direction sun is shining.
Bad as idot on the m6 saturday morning.
I wasn’t in the road work section not much traffic about was 7am sat morning.
Started to approach an 88reg Kia 4x4 thing. Doing about 50 in lane 1 . So I thought need to overtake. The next min she/he pulls over into middle lane stays doing 50.
Lane 1 is empty lane 2 is empty. So I’m sat there doing 48 as don’t want undertake.
Then I approach a slip road with few cars joining m6 so I pull into middle lane. Behind the kia.
Who then immediately pulls into lame 3 still doing 50. After a few mins I decide to do an undertake. I complete this then the kia pulls back into lane 1
Just the usual bad attitudes from all parties. There seems to be a hate culture these days with different groups of vehicles biggest being CARS and TRUCKS with a close second being CYCLISTS and MOTORISED VEHICLES.
As a truck driver (now retired) I find it extremely irritating how some truck drivers seem to think they are better just because they drive a truck and 9 times out of 10 they are the bully types in my opinion.
There can be a world of difference between someone who drives professionally and a vocational driver, sometimes the two are happy bedfellows, often they are not.
Proper drivers accept that others may not be so skilled in vehicle control, and those who drive for a living should not expect others, who don’t drive for a living, to be up to what they/we assume to be our standards.
The good lorry driver makes allowances for others, and copes with all that comes their way without reacting like some petulant child.
The same goes for many car drivers too, who display more competent driving skills than some of the sad excuses who sit behind the wheels of lorries these days.
I don’t quite get the insistence on flashing in, lots of other people at the wheel of lorries must think i’m ignorant, i do flash others in but only when they’ve passed by to a reasonable distance, in too many instances they are back in lane 1 in front of me before a car’s length has been forged between us, what point is there in flashing that sort of twerp.
Incidentally, it’s almost always people behind the wheel of UK lorries that cut in, seldom a foreign regd motor.
Proper drivers accept that others may not be so skilled in vehicle control, and those who drive for a living should not expect others, who don’t drive for a living, to be up to what they/we assume to be our standards.
It’s just a pity more would not realise this especially when their own standards are not so good.
I think its generally ■■■ for Tat really just my observation but i generally feel that the standard of driving has gone to complete ■■■■ for the majority of people with all that “Get the yesterday mentality”. Last Friday i took the missus to Usk just coming out of the 40 zone end of the roadworks on the Heads Of The Valleys Road and theres a artic tailgating this young woman trying to bully her to go faster. I mean wtf there`s speed cameras all along that route i believe to look at the driver of this artic he couldn’t of been any older than 18-19 needless to say once the speed restriction had lifted she took off and the lad was still where he started lumbering along at 54.
mick.mh2racing:
No need for the negativity Joe royal. Don’t think the poster was ranting, just an observation from another seat. Another seat of which there are 21 million of, and make no wonder they hold us in such low regard if this is how we behave.
sent using smoke signals
Does it really bother you that much what other driver think of you,because it don’t bother them,your just in there way
Has the rise in all the driving monitors built into modern trucks resulted in the poor driving of trucks . Drivers are more worried about the score on some monitor than obeying the rules of the road and keeping some pointy shoe in the office happy .
The proper tracker systems that throw up warnings for breaking speed limits seem to cut back the attitude that many have that speed limits are to be stretched to just under prosecution levels .
discoman:
When will truck drivers grasp, you are not professionals… you are merely people whom have upgraded a car licence to drive a bigger vehicle …
It depends if you’re using the word professional as an adjective or a noun?
To be fair, some lorry drivers are professional in how they go about their work, but they might be rare.
There are good trucks drivers and bad ones, as in any job or profession or vocation, but maybe in strict grammatical terms professional isn’t the correct word to use to describe them, except the meaning of words change over time as language evolves.
However a quick look at the dictionary definition of professional states you can describe somebody as a professional to differentiate them from somebody engaged in the same activity who isn’t being paid, eg Professional Footballer to describe somebody who gets paid to play football or as the OP has written Professional Driver, as in somebody who is paid to drive. How well they drive or play football for that matter is irrelevant to the definition, although might quite important for for those impacted by their ability or lack of it.
