Saxon786:
If you were stuck in a long line of traffic behind a tractor doing a tenner for that amount of time it would be a reasonable assumption for you to think that the tractor driver might pull over at some point. In the same fashion I think it’s our obligation to pull over to allow other vehicles through whenever you can see a major build up behind you; that’s what I do anyway.
Tractors have a legal obligation to pull over when there are 3 or more vehicles behind them being held up.
I only get stressed when im driving when i see bad driving i never get stressed when i sit at the legal limits for the vehicle im driving.
If you get stressed that much to see someone in a truck obeying the law then i think you are in the wrong job.
Perhaps you misunderstand me Jammy. Throughout the whole of my trip I stuck to the limit as best I could. For most of it I didn’t have any choice anyway even if I’d wanted to put my foot down. I just ended up further back in the queue when the lead guy toed it on the dual carriageway and it was a big queue A few or so got past with better acceleration onto the dual carriage but then he was on the limiter or near as darn it as I was slipping further and further back on a 50. I did say it didn’t faze me, I didn’t get stressed one jot. You’ll never see me gesticulating to another driver, any driver EVER. I enjoy my job thankyou plus the fact that I’m a probationer would be just darn silly of me to race around like a loony. I wouldn’t have pulled in four times myself if I’d been on the limiter would I? One strike and you’re out is it? or is it two? Not that I need to know When I came upon the radar van I didn’t need to suddenly apply my brakes or adjust my speed in any way but I can understand the fact that travelling over long distances without having the courtesy to pull over with a long line of traffic behind you can wind some people up. And it does as I see it happen frequently.
As far as I could see in this particular case this guy was actually deriving pleasure from having a long line of traffic behind him. If he’d stuck to all the limits and pulled in at least once then I could have sympathy for him but not when you do what he did.
You’ve just put a post on called ‘Justice?’, wanting someone crucified for driving down a motorway the wrong way… and yet you openly admit to speeding, wanting to put other drivers into ditches, drag them out of the cab etc.
Tiggz obeyed the law, end of story. She was in the right.
When you get caught for driving like a [zb}, lets hope they take your licence away, at least some of may feel a little safer on the roads OR wouldn’t that be right?
I’m sorry Rob, I’ve never posted like this before, but your comments are OTT.
I used to be a flyer going everywhere at warp factor 5 but then I ended up with no margin on my licence for another conviction (Although I was not guilty on two of the convictions but that ground has been covered elsewhere on here)
So I was basicaly forced to stick to the speed limits or I’d lose my licence/business.Since this has happened You become very aware of all the muppets out there for example the [zb] driving a space cab daf for calvers on the A134 eastbound on thursday lunchtime.
I was driving at 40 mph with him a few cars & trucks behind me when I came to a clear straight I was indicating left to let the vehicle behind me know it was clear.
Everything was fine and dandy with both cars & hgv’s passing with a wave of thanks or flash of indicators.'til calvers muppet’s turn.A couple of times I indicated left but he was obviously too close to see my indicators because he did not pass until we came to a stretch with a some houses on the left and a bend that goes off to the right and uphill slightly at the end of the straight.
He came round me even tho you cant see far enough in the distance and obviously couldn’t see the black van parked on my side of the road until he was alongside me then we saw the artic coming the other way,but this did not deter him from completeing his manouvere and I had to stand on the brakes & stop to give him enough room to get in front.
What thanks do I get for saving his life [zb] all .
So as far as I’m concerned All calvers space cabbed drivers are now [zb] & I shall treat them accordingly and they wont get past me on a single carriageway again.Theres no way I’m going to let a muppet take the front of my cab off and if they insist I’ll stop the motor blocking the whole road & I’ll take their face off.
My motor is my living I almost went bankrupt last year when an idiot in a low loader changed lanes on the A14 without even looking in his mirror and I was halfway past him.
I aint a fan of the 40 limit but thats what it is so thats what I’ll do.If you want to go faster and you are behind me I’ll let you know when it’s safe to come past me.If you sit so far up my arse you cant see my lights expect my trailer to sudedenly rush towards your windscreen as I stab the brakes.
I’ve nothing against speeders if they are safe (which is not a contradiction in my books) but if you act like an arse you’ll get treated like one
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Rob K: If you’d done that to me I would have come past you and put you in the ditch.
Rob K:
If wagon drivers wanna [zb] about like that on the roads then that’s the best place for them.
Rob K:
then you are the one that shouldn’t be on the road and I’d ■■■■ well make sure of it for you
I gotta say this sounds like the rantings of a school playground bully
And any man who would lay his hands on a woman is a coward and a bully in my books the only things lower are nonses and the ■■■■■ who mug old age pensioners
the trouble here is , to many folk having double standards… saying what they think is the right thing to say, then doing the opposite… as for any one dragging me out of me cab, hehe bring it on cowboys… like mal i have a similar double useage bar…
you all know how i feel about grassing fellow drivers up to the law, but ive got to agree with jammy.s last reply…
at the end of the day if the limit is 40 mph and your doing 40 mph dont worry about the eeedjits behind wanting to get past. it is down to them to overtake where it is safe to do so, if they kill thereself in the process your card will show you obeying the limits, so your covered.too many people on here want to be known as proffessionals when it suits… like ive said double standards two faced divvy,s… who should not be on the roads…
dont we get enuff grief from car drivers without all this infighting, and yes the old saying rears its head again…HOLIER THAN THOU ATTITUDE.
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as for any one dragging me out of me cab, hehe bring it on cowboys
too true mate, bring it on anytime anyplace, but bring a mate because someone will need to take you the doctors afterwards
ohterry wrote
at the end of the day if the limit is 40 mph and your doing 40 mph dont worry about the eeedjits behind wanting to get past
never a truer sentance said terry and my sentiments exactly, i am driving my lorry no one else’s
ohterry wrote
dont we get enuff grief from car drivers without all this infighting,
we do get enuff grief from car drivers as it is, but i wouldn’t class it as fighting as such, more a heated debate about a very good issue…it would be a very boring place without different opinions and of course…ROB K
As far as I could see in this particular case this guy was actually deriving pleasure from having a long line of traffic behind him. If he’d stuck to all the limits and pulled in at least once then I could have sympathy for him but not when you do what he did.
Thats the problem
This bloke Tiggz is driving at less than the speed limiter has had to be set at because of stupid [zb] drivers! She is also holding a long line of traffic up behind her.
The long line must be as long as one [zb] truck. It was a Royal Mail truck with some impatient driver who should not be on the road in any vehicle
If anybody is going to put me in a ditch for driving sensibly on a narrow road at 1am in the morning. Make a good job of it!
I can’t still get it into my head how a driver can just pull up behind you flashing his headlights for no reason other than you’re doing 40mph. Maybe I’m still too wet behind the ears to see it.
I made the above same trip twice again in successive days and although I was adhering to the speed limits I didn’t encounter any problems but like I said above as well… I will try to help out another driver who wants to pass. I have also made the same trip many many times without incident.
On a Sunday you might think that there’d be walkers, bikes, cyclists, coaches, cars, trucks, tractors and a US highway patrol car out and about and you’d be right!
On a 390km round trip I only had reason to pull in once in each direction costing me about a minute apiece. On the Monday doing the same trip I pulled in once on the way down but three times on the way back costing me no more than five minutes onto my journey time and hopefully plenty of happy drivers.
There were other times I helped out too, for instance on my return coming over the river down to West Lynn roundabout another artic tried to take me but there just wasn’t enough time and he had to pull in behind me but left it late doing so… hmmm… I thought to myself We both turned left onto the 47 (A17 straight on) and on the extremely short dual carriage there before going single I gave him a quick tappety tap. Yes he did blaze his lights at me on his way past but in thankful appreciation when he saw what was going on.
When I took a truck onto the roads for the first time I was shocked at just how many people do fly about I have to say and looking at the poll on speeding either none of those drivers come here or there’s a lot of [zb] going on. Contemplating that though for a minute… obviously the drivers doing 40mph will never catch me up as we’re all doing the same speed or thereabouts so I will only ever see the speeders which no doubt distorts my conception somewhat.
IMO you will only get problems if you drive with the ‘Well I can only do 40 so you are going to do it too’ attitude. You might say ‘Well hang on a minute, you don’t have any reason or obligation to pull in or move over’ and of course you’re right but from my experience that’s when the problems start. Reminds me of that commercial years back of the Granny in her car at the head of a long line of traffic…‘Don’t worry about me, I’ve got all day! hee hee hee hee hee’
A few or so got past with better acceleration onto the dual carriage but then he was on the limiter or near as darn it as I was slipping further and further back on a 50. I did say it didn’t faze me, I didn’t get stressed one jot. You’ll never see me gesticulating to another driver, any driver EVER. I enjoy my job thankyou plus the fact that I’m a probationer would be just darn silly of me to race around like a loony. I wouldn’t have pulled in four times myself if I’d been on the limiter would I? One strike and you’re out is it? or is it two? Not that I need to know 
When I came upon the radar van I didn’t need to suddenly apply my brakes or adjust my speed in any way 
but I can understand the fact that travelling over long distances without having the courtesy to pull over with a long line of traffic behind you can wind some people up. And it does as I see it happen frequently.
is driving at less than the speed limiter has had to be set at because of stupid [zb] drivers! She is also holding a long line of traffic up behind her. 
out and about and you’d be right!
jb