Hi All
Saw something today which made me do a double take had just joined the M1 N/B from the M25 was in the 1st lane when a Renault truck came past me I just glanced over as his cab came into my view…there was the driver steering with his elbows and in each hand he had a mobile phone looked like he was texting…words fail me…in full view of anyone…still sitting here shaking my head…an accident waiting to happen.
You do see some stupid things on the road, thats the kind of thing thats followed by “truck runs into stationary traffic driver not watching the road”.
I was overtaken by a Spanish artic last week on the M2. The driver had BOTH feet up on the dashboard and was watching a Dvd.
GIve me a job driving one of those VOSA tractors with the side-pointing cameras in them… Please! 
I’m not sure if it’s my changing perceptions, or whether anybody else has noticed, but it seems there is a LOT more lane weaving these days. It isn’t just vehicles in front, but increasingly it is the vehicle overtaking me, and is often a fellow lorry driver. I attribute much of this to phone use.
Best I saw yesterday, I was catching up to a foreign truck, so put my indicator on, a Land Rover Discovery decided he’d go past me, so I pulled out behind him.
Then the foreign truck’s right indicator flashed at the same time as his lane change - which took about the same length of time as the indicator flash.
I saw this and eased right off, the Land Rover - no idea what he was doing - ended up ploughing into the back of the truck, but this was probably 10 seconds after it had joined the 2nd lane, he just seemed to blow a gasket and drive into it or something.
The current penalties for this widespread, moronic practice are clearly still an ineffective deterrent. I see this crap every single day.
Two car drivers in busy city centre traffic yesterday. Totally engrossed, texting merrily away. If caught, they should have to attend - and pay for - a safe driving classroom course. Get collared again and it`s a 12 month ban and re-test. 
I am working in the central res of a short dual carriageway , just off of a motorway
the amount of drivers ,not just lorries who are on the phone ,eating ,drinking ,reading the paper is unreal
just this afternoon during the school run ,traffic was queuing back a van driver who had slowed to a crawl was having difficulty using his phone ,steering and changing gear ,this meant he crossed the cones into our working area before getting things back under some sort of control 
I also see this on a daily basis, the problem is, that there are not enough police to “police” this, it is the same with the two laws that were introduced last Summer, tailgating and middle lane hoggers, they are supposed to be clamping down on these, but again, there are no cops visible.
Sapper
Caught a guy with the brain capacity of a goldfish on M5 Split N/S from M42
Legs on the dash, and on the phone with left hand…
Wasn’t even a foreign driver just a white unsign written lorry.
Saw a nugget in a uk truck yesterday morning M6 south just after the vosa station at Stafford.
As I was passing the vosa point I could see a police car parked and watching the traffic just then I could see a man running down the hard shoulder from his car back towards the police waving his arms, looks up the road and there’s a artic swerving from between the middle of lane 2 and back across and into the hard shoulder.
So seeing this the police car nailed it up the motorway to get behind him and blues an two’s on and sat right on this ■■■■■■■■■ rear bumper full view in his mirrors and the truck wasn’t giving up easily and kept going and still swerving for just over a mile but by then the police had had enough and pulled round the front of him and weighed on the brakes.
That soon made him stop, so now either he’d just been stung on his nutsack or he’d been on his phone. He really was a complete danger to others.
I used to think I was the only truck driver on here that noticed all the bad driving and practices that go on.
Now it seems that more on here are acknowledging the same or maybe the ones that told me I was wrong have me on ignore now.
Nowt stranger than folk!
People should learn to mind their own business, let the driver so his job & you do yours…!:twisted::evil:
Treat phone use the same as no insurance;
6 points and sieze the vehcile.
The idiots that amaze me are the ones who not only talk on their phones but haven’t got the common sense to hold it to the ear thats not next to the window 
How stupid can a person be FFS ?
I don’t know what the punishment is over there but over here if a truck driver is caught using a cell phone without a hands free device it’s a $2,750.00 fine, except in Massachusettes where anyone over 21 can use one without a fine … How stupid is that ?
I watched a 44t one night on the M1 at 3am in the morning doing 80mph plus under its own steam in the outside lane. Nothing for the old school drivers I except but seeing that coming through the fog at that speed and at that time of the morning (black unit and trailer) certainty woke me up some!
Pat Hasler:
The idiots that amaze me are the ones who not only talk on their phones but haven’t got the common sense to hold it to the ear thats not next to the window
I don’t know what the punishment is over there but over here if a truck driver is caught using a cell phone without a hands free device it’s a $2,750.00 fine, except in Massachusettes where anyone over 21 can use one without a fine … How stupid is that ?
Think it’s around a 3k fine here Pat plus points, not 100%.
What gets me is there are so many hands free (decent) kits on offer…why risk it? Worst situation is the Services and a reply in 30/40 minutes.
Pimpdaddy:
People should learn to mind their own business, let the driver so his job & you do yours…!:twisted::evil:
Yeh, but if he’s NOT doing his job in a manner that keeps the rest of us out of danger, then it becomes EVERYONE’S business.
Enough of the “Walk on By” society - “'cos it ain’t my job” or whatever.
When you’re at a party, and your mate is about to leave completely paraletic, having picked his car keys up - Do you take them off him, or leave it to chance?
Imagine how you’d feel if later on he’s either dead, killed someone else, or even just been pulled by the old bill, and lost his licence - when you could have prevented the whole sorry saga…
Maybe he’s acting out of character “drinking and driving in front of everyone” almost asking to be caught. The reasons don’t matter. It’s any onlooker’s job who “calls themselves so-and-so’s mate” to prevent an ugly situation for all involved…
Winseer:
Yeh, but if he’s NOT doing his job in a manner that keeps the rest of us out of danger, then it becomes EVERYONE’S business.
Nobody mentioned that he/she was driving dangerously so how in earth does that put us in danger. I see these things everyday & a significant amount of my time/effort would be wasted by ‘worrying’ about it-I mind my own business & drive my own vehicle, not other peoples…!!!
Always keep my eyes on the road when overtaking and just stick it on pause if I’m at a good bit, just isn’t worth it.