newmercman:
EastAnglianTrucker:
alix776:
Something tells me there’s more to this than the op is letting in my bs meter is hitting the roof
Yeah I tend to agree. It does seem strange that you stayed within flashing distance of this apparent killer in a 44 ton truck.
Why did you not either speed up, slow down so he could overtake you, or pull off and let him travel on without threatening you?
It would be interesting to hear the other side of this story.
I would just like to emphasise I do not condone any form of motorised intimidation, but like alix776, I do feel there’s more to this than we have read in the OP’s 2nd post!
^^this^^
It does happen though, I’ve been a ‘victim’ of bullying from a lorry driver, only the tables got turned PDQ 
When I was working for MB I had to have a car with the three pointed star, so obviously I got the best one I could, no harm in that, I worked bloody hard for my money, yet people’s attitude to me on the road was much different than it would’ve been if I was driving a clapped out Mondeo and I encountered a supertrucker who took this to extremes. Heading south west on the A303 and we came to the end of the dual carriageway just west of the Naafi roundabout.
I was jogging on and went to pass this Actros wagon and drag, it turned out not to be, this ‘professional’ didn’t want me coming past him, even though there were still two open lanes, so he swerved out to straddle the two lanes and prevented me from passing, at the next roundabout there was plenty of room for me to pass, but he used every bit of road, now I know exactly how much room a lorry needs, so the fact that he was doing this was for one reason and that was to prevent me from passing him, why I do not know, as I said, I was jogging on and my 320cdi was not exactly going to hold him up in a limited lorry on a road where he was restricted by law to 40mph.
I did manage to get round him on the exit to the roundabout by a bit of having a lot more bottle than he assumed I would have, at this point I was going to do my own version of a roadblock and have a quiet little word, but thought better of it, instead I did 40mph on the S/C and 56mph when it opened up to D/C again, on that long drag down to the Wiltshire county line I had to giddy up a bit as he let it go down there, but I remained in front, doing everything I could to ■■■■ him off, windscreen washers making his fly spattered screen all streaky, rear fogs, speeding up when he pulled out to pass me, left foot braking to get the brake lights on without slowing down when he was right up my arse, slowing right down at the bottom of any hill on a S/C, everything that ■■■■■■ me off, I did to him and I was laughing my ■■■■ off all the way down.
So as much as we don’t want to believe it, there are more than a few lorry drivers out there who drive like a complete hunt (sp) they don’t think twic about holding another lorry alongside them for miles on end, or tailgating anyone who dares to go 0.00001mph slower than them, so why do you think they will act any different when they’re behind a car 
And it seems some of them drive cars just as badly as they drive trucks.
