I’d of stayed put like the driver did. 
I’m no shrinking violet but it’s much more fun to laugh at them or blow them a kiss and watch them get more and more irate without being able to anything about it. 
Making sure you’ve called the rossers or filmed it of course 
billybigrig:
I’d of stayed put like the driver did.I’m no shrinking violet but it’s much more fun to laugh at them or blow them a kiss and watch them get more and more irate without being able to anything about it.
Making sure you’ve called the rossers or filmed it of course
Its a lovely idea but unfortunately having been attacked in the lorry I can tell you all logical thought goes to pot and you try to remember how it all went 10minutes down the road when your chain smoking and shaking
I had a situtation develop similar to this in the middle of london a few years ago, about 2am, guy kept trying to stop me, banging on the window etc…
I went through a red light in an attempt to lose him, he just followed me through, I was on the phone to the police at this time, I watched him in the mirrors getting out the car and picking something up in the road, he then overtook me and stopped, got out and threw a brick at the windscreen, it broke and cracked all over, 2nd time I thought it was coming through, 3rd time I thought I’m not risking another and just drove off over the central kerb round him and carried on through the red light. got on start of M1 and lost him, all this time I was on the phone to police and they were promising to get some coppers there… I pulled in london gateway services and calmed down somewhat… then drove all the way back to nottingham with a broken screen just looking out of a 2inch square clear bit.
The police never did anything about it, I told them which roads I was on ofcourse and they claimed there was no footage of it, I know for a fact theres a traffic camera somewhere near the a41/a1 past a petrol station that it would have been seen on. company were pretty understanding about it, but I refused to ever do that run again.
I’d have lost it a bit like he did and would be out of the wagon kicking his head in Im afraid. I’ve jumped out of the car and wagon on numerous occasions, it does take me a lot to lose my temper but even watching that I feel my blood boiling. Gotta say though, the fella in the car is all talk, “if he comes to me I’m going to run him over” just as he skids off around the knob when he comes towards him
Kerbdog:
I’d have lost it a bit like he did and would be out of the wagon kicking his head in Im afraid. I’ve jumped out of the car and wagon on numerous occasions, it does take me a lot to lose my temper but even watching that I feel my blood boiling. Gotta say though, the fella in the car is all talk, “if he comes to me I’m going to run him over” just as he skids off around the knob when he comes towards him
I dont think you would.
In that Situation you are alone,and the Shock may hit you harder as you think.
Lovlyperson:
I dont think you would.
In that Situation you are alone,and the Shock may hit you harder as you think.
Got in the situation once about 10 years ago, a ■■■■■■■■■ guy about 6ft 5ins got out of his car after firstly trying to undertake me on the kilburn a5 and then when I wouldn’t let him out he slowed and he was all over his horn just before he overtook me on the opposite lane (on the wrong side of the traffic islands too) to which I told him to zbzbzbzb off with my finger. He pulled infront of me in the car so I couldn’t drive forward in the truck and come out to the drivers door of the truck… He was blabbing at me so I jumped out and basically confronted him (more with words than expressive body language), he had a go back, I had a go back, he wouldn’t hit me cos i told him that the cctv on truck had filmed his every move and was still doing, and because he wouldn’t hit me it became a bit of a comedy. I told him I get paid by the hour and if you want to sit there till the police showed up in 2 hours then I’m fine, I’m getting paid. He continued on after I’d put my seat back and feet up and then I passed him (oops, up the inside) on park lane after marble arch, never to be seen again… and yes I would do it again, I’d LOVE someone to have a go.
One other incident that stands out (amongst many as you all know) was not a confrontation, but me winning by being a bit more ‘experienced’ than the ‘gentleman’ I’d upset. I was coming along Liverpool’s waterfront (riverside drive), admittedly I came to a roundabout a tad too fast but still able to stop (which was obvious that I was ok to stop as I needed to !!!). A car came out of the housing estate to my right and proceeded at what can only be described as a gentlemanly pace (25 mph). I knew what he was doing (trying to slow me down) so I did. The road after the next roundabout opened up to 2 lanes but on the mile stretch we were on a healthy queue had formed ! Anyway, this clever (man) idiot though I was going to try and pass him as we weren’t going fast enough for me so I played my card and stayed behind him in the inside lane at 25mph. We were then passed by the backed up queing traffic and old matey was wondering why I hadn’t passed him too. I had no need to, he slowed me down so by not overtaking him, he had to slow down too and stay at the set speed. I did catch up to him at the lights as we approached Liverpool’s Strand waterfront but it’s amazing how people who 5 minutes ago appeared invincible, now appear illusioned to everyone
Oh also, just so you know, got to a section of road in Liverpool today (from M57/M58 to docks) where it goes from 2 to 3 lanes, then a set of lights and then back to 2 lanes. I’m in the car in the outside lane of 2, as soon as 3 lanes opens up the van on the inside lane decides to indicate and manoevre 3 foot from my front bumper to the lane i’m in just as it opens to 3 lanes. No probs, I indicate and move to lane 3, constant speed and I still bypass his van. Knowing the 3rd lane moves back in and the carriageway becomes 2 lanes again I was shocked to see him flash then hear him beep his horn. Surely he knows that an overtaking vehicle has priority according to the highway code. Surely he knows that he pulled out on me and if I didn’t have my wits about me he could have caused an accident ? Nah, he hasn’t a clue. To say I stopped myself getting out the car at the next lights is an understatement. Not because I’m insane, but because when I moved over to the inside lane (as I had no one else to overtake), BA Barracus in his van come along side me… I had a ‘chat’ with him and explained that I had to take action when he moved lanes to which he said “Well, I indicated!”. I said that doesn’t mean that I can just move over willy nilly or give you invincibility for lane changing, I also explained that I still over took him in lane 3 after manouvering away from an accident, and that (according to the highway code) the vehicle being overtaken has to ‘give way’ to the overtaking vehicle. Also rule 3 is that you should never do this whilst in a Skelmersdale signwritten van with Glasdon written all over it , with phone number to boot, or worst of all start coming on to someone who will kick your head in when them lights you are about to get stopped at in 500 yards are on red… I would never start a confrontation, but I will deal with it if I need to. Big men in their armoured boxes do my head in. If I make a mistake on the road (which I do, all of us do) then I can’t apologise enough to whom ever I affect. Seriously, I hold my hand up to my mistakes, we all have lapses… but when someone is blatant and completely wrong, and then continues to preach, it makes my blood boil.
Well…I was driving my van in Liverpool.Minding my business when… 
thisislondon.co.uk:
Former world boxing champ Lennox Lewis was involved in a road-rage row after a lorry ploughed into his Aston Martin sports car on a roundabout, it emerged yesterday.But the trucker, who was spoiling for a fight, backed down when he recognised Lewis.
The prang - the only one the recently retired heavyweight has ever been involved in - happened in London, Lewis said.
You should be careful when carrying out road rage attacks, you never know who the other bloke is. It could be a former world boxing champ or some nut job with a penchant for weapons and extreme violence.
I find that a lot people are brave behind the wheel flashing their lights and making silly hand gestures but when you stop in front of them at the traffic lights and get out to calmly ask them why they’re being so silly, they do a wheel spinning u-turn and drive off as fast as they can. Maybe it’s just my face or maybe they can sense my penchant for weapons and extreme violence or maybe it’s both.
The last person to try that with me got the cab door in the face when i kicked it open while he was shouting and balling at me. To add injury to it i poured my ■■■■ bottle out over him as he was picking himself up i was lucky to be in a plain white hire motor that week cos i was only about 1/4 of a mile from the yard.
No you didn’t!
SmashedCrabFace:
I find that a lot people are brave behind the wheel flashing their lights and making silly hand gestures but when you stop in front of them at the traffic lights and get out to calmly ask them why they’re being so silly, they do a wheel spinning u-turn and drive off as fast as they can.
I had this once and it cured me of road rage, this ■■■■■■ had really got me mad, big style, he stopped at lights tight behind another car so he was going nowhere, I had lost all sense of reason and I really wanted to have him (in a rough butch manly way you understand ) I am a big lad, shaved head , tatoos etc (but pussycat really ) and I must have looked really scary to him jumping out of the cab, because when I approached he was locking all the doors and actually cowering The thing was he had 2 little kids in the back, they were crying, and his wife looked terrified and shouting we are sorry sorry. I stopped suddenly came back to reason and thought to myself What the hell am I doing!! , I got back in the cab and felt a Grade 1 zb zb. Nowadays I just raise above it.
Double post sorry 
Well done robroy and well done to the truck driver in the vid for not reacting - it would be difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to defend oneself against that loon. Why has no-one mentioned that that chap obviously has brain damage and should have been given medical treatment rather than violence? Or is it that obvious that it doesn’t need mentioning? Goes to show though that you don’t want to wind up the wrong person.
I think there should be a mandatory drivers CPC type of thing for car drivers. Not to the same extent as the truckers CPC, but say at least one hour in a classroom being taught how trucks, tractors, cyclists and such like need to behave on the road.
I’ve a friend who claims a truck forced her P107 into a barrier on a roundabout because he didn’t know how to drive. If she had had some kind of short classroom course she may have been aware that an arctic truck needs to be driven around a round about in a very different way to a car. (althouth I will admit I wasn’t present when this actually happened, I only had her over dramatic explination of the situation and knowlage of her poor quality of driving to go off of)
I figure it would be a good way of educating people that some of the things truck drivers do isn’t done to intentionally wind other road users up, it’s done to save time, or to save fuel or simply to keep the truck on the road in a legal and safe maner. I’m sure this has been mentioned before though.