Joining the M1 from the M6 in the early hours this morning we were going at the same speed alongside each other until my weight propelled me forward slightly faster. We got to the M1 and due to the lane I was in I joined the inside lane of the M1 while you were still on the slip road, yet your cab was still a few feet up the inside of my trailer. I completely failed to move over to the middle lane to let you into the inside lane of the M1 - for that I have failed to execute my gentleman-like conduct. I could clearly see that hundreds of yards of sliproad was not enough for you to assess the situation and drop back a little. Neither should you. It was obvious that you would have eased off a little and let me drop back in. The past few miles had evidenced that you were willing to let me pass, albeit within 4 or 5 miles - thank you. I should have moved over so that you could have continued without deactivating cruise control. I really should have. Your incessant flashing, beeping, and continued driving on the hard shoulder really brought home to me how inept, bad mannered, and inconsiderate I am. I feel so bad, I couldn’t sleep, I snapped at my wife, I kicked our dog, and I am slowly becoming the shell of the man I once was.
For this, I apologise unreservedly, and next time I shall move over and continue in the middle lane for 3 more junctions so you don’t have to lose 70ft of space and 1.5 seconds of your day. That’s far too much distance and time to lose and I fail to see how you could complete your shift or catch that boat.
lol very good but you should know that us reefer men are the most important beings on the road after all without us your poor wife would have been unable to cook that lovely meal you had tonight thereby easing you out of your stressful day
Now that tale has made me have a good laugh. And then I thought to myself " that’s the high standard of driving that’s required in this day & age in the UK. All the new regulation & training drivers have to do in the 21st. century has not helped one iota, being polite & sensible was the old way & seemed to work ok. But hey as we all know that’s not going to create jobs for thousands of a-holes to tell us how to do our jobs. Think I’ll go down the pub now for a rest.
OVLOV JAY:
At least you realise you were wrong and have decided to apologise. Good on you. Takes a real man to admit they’re wrong
Publicly too. I also apologise to Mr. VOSA (I know you’re reading) for failing to strap 2 empty white pallets inside my curtainsider - I won’t do it again, but thanks for giving me the opportunity to strap them down and not fining me. I love you guys.
It would be nice to see Sainsbury’s Stoke come on here and apologise to it’s drivers for apparently not teaching them how to use the air suspension in the new units, causing not one, but a couple of it’s drivers to reverse under trailers and miss the pin, but I bet they won’t, even though those same drivers are probably now traumatised due to absolutely no fault of their own.
I also would like to say sorry to the warehouse men who I ■■■■■■ near to. It stunk, and boy, I felt happy afterwards but driving back from Oxford thinking about it made me drive so badly I didn’t let a car driver out of a side road and I know a few people would like to have me hung due to be driving below the standard of a professional driver. Sorry warehouse men. I will bring you some flowers next time I deliver, but I hope the flowers don’t die from then stench though.
And to end on a lighter note,why do all UK Msa’s toilets stink of a badgers den.
Do badgers go in there at night and have a party.
Eat sleep rave and repeat.
Then pee all over the place.
Or could it be a foxes den?
toby1234abc:
And to end on a lighter note,why do all UK Msa’s toilets stink of a badgers den.
Do badgers go in there at night and have a party.
Eat sleep rave and repeat.
Then pee all over the place.
Or could it be a foxes den?
That’s nothing to do with truck drivers.
No ‘professional driver’ would ever make a smell in the MSA toilet.
They all ■■■■ themselves in the truck park or use a bag in the cab instead!
toby1234abc:
And to end on a lighter note,why do all UK Msa’s toilets stink of a badgers den.
Do badgers go in there at night and have a party.
Eat sleep rave and repeat.
Then pee all over the place.
Or could it be a foxes den?
That’s nothing to do with truck drivers.
No ‘professional driver’ would ever make a smell in the MSA toilet.
They all ■■■■ themselves in the truck park or use a bag in the cab instead!
+1
It’s the bad drivers who make that smell, oh and comment from a poster called GasGas about a smell in a toilet
toby1234abc:
And to end on a lighter note,why do all UK Msa’s toilets stink of a badgers den.
Do badgers go in there at night and have a party.
Eat sleep rave and repeat.
Then pee all over the place.
Or could it be a foxes den?
Used the Strensham (S) services f**K me, nearly spewed up, the stench was vile, and that was just the parking area, then used the ablutions, and that was nasel stink overload, breathed through my mouth, honestly I nearly puked
I met a driver at a cold store the other day who was still fuming about the way he’d been cut up joining the M1.
Apparently this plonker who’d been behind him for quite a while manage to get some extra speed by pushing it hard around the corner and then the downhill slope just got him up alongside on the slip road. And there he stayed, he jumped out into lane one at the earliest opportunity but then wouldn’t move over one lane to let the other driver out, in fact forcing him onto the hard shoulder. He was fuming, this was the type of antics you’d expect from a car driver but not a fellow professional truck driver. As he said, once out on the M1 he could have eased off and let the other fellow in safely but the sheer ignorance of the manoeuvre really wound him up for a while. Trying to overtake on a slip road is dangerous enough but when your wagon hasn’t got the guts to go on it’s plain daft. What was the other driver going to do with the 70foot of space and 1.5 seconds he gained? He asked where had all the proper drivers of years ago gone, a time when you’d flash someone in or waved them on if faster than you.
We’re all saints and sinners, sometimes the statue sometimes the seagull. Drive as you’d expect others to, try to alleviate problems before they occur and if you do make a ■■■■ up apologise and move on. If someone carves you up; rant a bit to yourself then ■■■■ it in and forget it; move on.
He asked where had all the proper drivers of years ago gone, a time when you’d flash someone in or waved them on if faster than you.
The plonker appeared to be going marginally faster, and certainly wasn’t being waved on. The plonker was polite though, because he blipped the indicator left and right to thank the reefer driver’s over-politeness, evidenced by lots of flashes.
Seriously though, these childish control freaks that won’t slightly ease off ruin the job. Yeah yeah “you should hold back and reset the cruise”, but over a 4 hour journey I’d lose 3 or 4 minutes which I literally don’t have on that particular run - it’s extremely tight - 8 hours 58 driving.
I apologise to the security at Morrisons Burton Latimer for failing to stop after the guard kindly raised the barrier so that I could move my cab over enough to exit the cab and allow them to check the back of the trailer.
■■■■■ shouldn’t have messed me about so much should they
I made 85mph down Shap one night with 25 pallets of cheese on…I was most annoyed an Irish lad overtook me I flashed him in and he didnt even acknowledge me…the manners of some people these days, shocking!
ezydriver:
but over a 4 hour journey I’d lose 3 or 4 minutes which I literally don’t have on that particular run - it’s extremely tight - 8 hours 58 driving.
And there friends we have the root cause of many of today’s problems.
Rentadent:
It would be nice to see Sainsbury’s Stoke come on here and apologise to it’s drivers for apparently not teaching them how to use the air suspension in the new units, causing not one, but a couple of it’s drivers to reverse under trailers and miss the pin, but I bet they won’t, even though those same drivers are probably now traumatised due to absolutely no fault of their own.
one of there driver trainer / assessor is a member of this forum so maybe he will answer your question
There are some ■■■■ wits out there.
very good but you should know that us reefer men are the most important beings on the road after all without us your poor wife would have been unable to cook that lovely meal you had tonight thereby easing you out of your stressful day 
