Reef, just one further question: Where was the car before it was in your blind spot?
Driveroneuk:
Reef, just one further question: Where was the car before it was in your blind spot?
are you having a laugh■■? 
or have you temporarily lost your glasses■■? 
Read the ruddy thread man 
no further questions
you have just answered the question you set in the thread title.
Coffeeholic:
I’ve moved other trucks in the yard and sometimes I can’t believe the way the mirrors are adjusted. The kerbside mirror shows a great view of the passenger seat and the main mirror is adjusted so you can read the writing down the side of the trailer , with only an inch showing the view behind. Is that so the driver can check the trailer to remind him of the company name? The wide angle mirror is often adjusted so the first bit of tarmac you can see is somewhere near the drive axle which creates a big blind spot down by the door.
I was recently chatting to the engineering foreman at our company over this and mentioned the aspect of various mirrors. He was able to correct my terminology for the mirrors as I didn’t know the names before. “Look down mirror” “Wide angle mirror” “normal mirror” “heated mirror” and of course “broken mirror”…
Of course, I’ve still forgotten most of them but when I write them in the book the other engineer mostly understands what I write… (within reason). 
paul b:
but of coarse you shouldn’t need mirrors before you change lanes, if your on the ball! shouldn’t you know whats around you before you start changing lanes?
I was going to mention that… But I figured that hypothetically this was not a non-standard thing. Ie everyone did it anyway…
I tend to use the mirrors more than just doing the manouvering stuff as it keeps me on the ball to what is around me. Makes life easier when I need to go from L1 to L3 and back to L1 just to pass a muppet car drive in middle lane… 