truckerjimbo:
I normally drive into a space where other drivers have reversed. Im a very anti-socal rigid driver and dont like making eye contact with other drivers. It give you the impression that I want a chat but I dont.
Not just that driver but when reversed into a spot it leaves the opertunity for some geezer to hit the front of your cab when leaving or arriving. Drive in and the front of your cab is safe.
I drive both. I pull up to the line. Don’t see your logic.
Because they don’t want the front of the cab stove in by some steering wheel attendant who didn’t look properly.
Why is it when you follow a rigid into hearthill services westbound and there is 2 spaces left and they take the ■■■■ easy reverse and leave you with the blindsider inbetween 2 parked artics, is it so i can show off ma silky skills to you 
Pat Hasler:
Seems to me that the OP has the size problem and is so arrogant about driving his artic and not a smaller rigid … Just remember how you started out sir.
Not at all and it’s just meant to be an observation not a rant.
bald bloke:
Is it a size thing because you want to be seen to look just as large as others ?I have my safety hat here waiting.
No. It’s to stop some self-important knob-head in an artic doing a blind-side into what he thinks is an empty bay, and scratching my nice new paint. 
just making a note to myself. Ask if its okay to park in a parking space and whereabouts in said space.
Sheesh
usually I try and park away from where the artics are parking simply so im not in their way but if I have to park in a bay next to one I make sure that any artic wanting to reverse into the bay next to me can get in…simples…
I drive a rigid, and as everyone else has said it so we don’t get boxed in by some class 1 knob jockey wanting to show off his blind side reverse skills to his fellow brethren while holding phone to his ear, watching dvd, stirring his spag bowl, steering with his knees into space he thinks is free only to find some inconsiderate something u tread in class 2 driver has taken the space. I’ve had it happen to me twice now, the extra services at baldock seems is one place it happens.
rant over! Haha.
Cruise Control:
I drive a rigid, and as everyone else has said it so we don’t get boxed in by some class 1 knob jockey wanting to show off his blind side reverse skills to his fellow brethren while holding phone to his ear, watching dvd, stirring his spag bowl, steering with his knees into space he thinks is free only to find some inconsiderate something u tread in class 2 driver has taken the space. I’ve had it happen to me twice now, the extra services at baldock seems is one place it happens.rant over! Haha.
Don’t forget swigging shandy bass 
Surely the issue here is the parking layouts in certain MSA’s and truck stops. Maybe the OP could ask them next time he’s in whether they can maybe reduce the number of spaces so as to make his life easier, while losing them money at the same time. Wonder what the answer would be…
As if there are rigid drivers out there worrying about parking ‘out of the way’ of artics in the services! 
Of course make sure they have room to get in and out, but you have as much right to be there as anyone else, just park up where you want.
For the record, when out in a rigid i tend to set myself back a cabs length from wagons next to me anyway. Weird thing i have about not liking others looking accross into my cab whilst im eating or whatever. 
rob22888:
As if there are rigid drivers out there worrying about parking ‘out of the way’ of artics in the services!
Well I do! For example, at Michael Wood services on the M5, I will always choose one of the shorter bays if I’m in a rigid. In many service areas, “drive through” spaces are in short supply at busy times, so I look for a suitable gap against the perimeter wall which would be awkward for a larger vehicle and leave the few larger spaces that are available for those with trailers. I don’t do it because of any sense of “inferiority” - I do it because it might help someone else while not actually costing me any time or effort.
Apart from wanting to see what’s occurring outside , I once parked up in the last bay next to a wall, then a arttic parked next to me, I awoke to a hellofa sound of the motor next to me blasting his many horns, trying to warn a irish driver of my presence in the bay he was blindside reversing into. To be fair when I got out and looked , because I was so far back and in the last bay, hidden by the arttics box trailer, I was not easy to see.
So that’s why I park level with bigger trucks.