It aint just london Boy!! its everywhere if u avent noticed!! Rat race out there !!
Most places within the M25 I class as London. I suppose it’s actually greater London, to be exact. The fact is, once you’re in greater London, driving standards deteriorate, patience goes out of the window and there’s a speed camera everywhere you look!
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manowar:
Most places within the M25 I class as London. I suppose it’s actually greater London, to be exact. The fact is, once you’re in greater London, driving standards deteriorate, patience goes out of the window and there’s a speed camera everywhere you look!
Driving standards are no worse in London than Birmingham or Manchester, any big city has the same problems, it’s just that Greater London is bigger so you have a larger area of idiots to deal with.
When I’m in my car in London I don’t cut lorries up & I obviously make allowances for their size but I do try to get past them asap because let’s face it they are slow & especially so if some bumpkin from out in the sticks is driving one like a ■■■■ because he’s scared of a bit of traffic 
Whatever is wrong with you lot. When I am sitting up there in my nice comfy seat looking down on all those lesser mortals I really don’t care what they get up to. They can blow their silly horns ‘till they are blue in the face if they want. The trick is to block as much of the road as you need as soon as you can; ignore the noises off and take your time to get it right.
I used to do a regular collection in North Birmingham which was a reverse off a busy roundabout into a narrow gate. As with all reverses it is OK if you start from the right place.
Personally I think London drivers are brilliant — When I get there its radio off, shut any passenger up, sit up straight and concentrate. I soon get into the proper mode and, like Buck73 - enjoy it. Who needs to go to Alton Towers for thrills and adreneline?
Santa:
Whatever is wrong with you lot. When I am sitting up there in my nice comfy seat looking down on all those lesser mortals I really don’t care what they get up to. They can blow their silly horns ‘till they are blue in the face if they want. The trick is to block as much of the road as you need as soon as you can; ignore the noises off and take your time to get it right.I used to do a regular collection in North Birmingham which was a reverse off a busy roundabout into a narrow gate. As with all reverses it is OK if you start from the right place.
Personally I think London drivers are brilliant — When I get there its radio off, shut any passenger up, sit up straight and concentrate. I soon get into the proper mode and, like Buck73 - enjoy it. Who needs to go to Alton Towers for thrills and adreneline?
At last, a PROPER driver 
Used to go to London as a lowloader mate. When we needed to change lane or move around, just used to look for the nicest car around e.g. Roller,Bentley or Merc, indicate and move over. Easy!!! Never had a problem!!
I have to put up with London everyday of the week.lets face it the driving standards of some of these people(and we all know who they are).
Anyway i had a situation in sutton coalfied at to blind side it in and at the same time get it under the canopy that had the width of the trailer cut out it was a back and forwards shunt till you got it right.1 day I had this bloke who was waiting ask me if i had a licence to drive the vehicle i got out handed him the keys and told him to do it for me if he was so good.(he would’nt take them). no one could move either way. i then walked to the shop brought a can of coke( i was so peed off i at to walk away before i clumped him) i then walked back to this bloke, he was getting abuse from the other drivers.He apologised to me and said he didnt realise how difficult my job was.I asked him if he had a licence and he said he be to scared to either think about driving an artic.
Use your indicators as a command not a request, it’s easy then
newmercman:
…especially so if some bumpkin from out in the sticks is driving one like a [zb] because he’s scared of a bit of traffic
FPMSL…there you go mark, upsetting the carrot crunchers!!!
uckna:
Probably been covered before, but - Had a tip in Southall this morning (which usually goes in at about 6am -( but they planned for me to be there at 9am)
Blind side reverse off a dual c’way - I tried to time it as best as i could, but i knew i only had about 30 seconds of clear road, got myself in best position i could, waited for gap, then went for it, needed to do one shunt, just to sort myself out, but would any of the misery’s let me do it, even the bus drivers were bolshy - Horns sounded after about 30 seconds.
Eventually, and only because i had to force the issue, traffic stopped, i got it sorted, and out the way, but a little patience, and i would have been out the way so much quicker
I have had the same sort of thing in other cities, Leeds springs to mind, and had no problem, or hassles
Pah - rant over
I think it’s just part of the job m8,you got to remember car drivers are more important than us mortal’s.NOT,who gives a f*** about the cars i love it when they blast the horn coz i just go slower, coz i know they can’t do sod all about it and i just give them a wee smile and a wave as they go by at warp speed.
bullitt:
newmercman:
…especially so if some bumpkin from out in the sticks is driving one like a [zb] because he’s scared of a bit of traffic
FPMSL…there you go mark, upsetting the carrot crunchers!!!
Ah the fastest lorry lorry driver on Trucknet, I bet none of them could get across town as quick as you eh Rick
Supposed to be getting a shiney new one to play with in a few weeks!!
Nee Naw Nee Naw!!
bullitt:
Supposed to be getting a shiney new one to play with in a few weeks!!Nee Naw Nee Naw!!
remember to run it in nice n gentle
No way!!! …treat a new truck as you would a new woman, run it hard, keep it working, keep pushing it until it and you know each others limits, give it a rest now and again and above all, let it know who`s boss!!
And if it plays up, either send it back to where it came from or get rid…as soon as!!!
Sorry, keeping it on thread…bloody Londoners!! 
The problem with reversing from busy streets is that the great god H&S forbids many employees at delivery points from directing you in.
The first time I Ioaded at the Lu biscuit factory in Chateau Thierry it would have been easier to reverse in blind side (left ■■■■■■, from the right) as the bays were angled in that direction. So that is what I did but it was a big problem with all the traffic as it is very close to the town centre.
After I got it on the bay the man said ‘you in already, I was just coming out to put the lights on?’
It was then that I discovered they had their very own set of traffic lights operated by a switch inside the factory. 
What a good idea though.
I was just coming out to put the lights on?’
It was then that I discovered they had their very own set of traffic lights operated by a switch inside the factory.
What a good idea though.
He might have told you that when you went in to see them before reversing Ah well at least you know for the next time,and you are right what a good idea. 
kitkat:
I was just coming out to put the lights on?’
It was then that I discovered they had their very own set of traffic lights operated by a switch inside the factory.
What a good idea though.He might have told you that when you went in to see them before reversing
Well that’s what I thought at the time, but then realised that it was such a regular loading point for our firm that it probably didn’t occur to him. Funny thing is though that I also found that it was easier to approch from the other direction than the town centre and that involved screwing it round jacknife fashion on the sighted side, so combined with the absence of traffic to worry about, much easier.
On 2 occasions in London I have had cars actually run into me, and they just carry on as though nothing happened (low speed tring to find a gap where there aint one)…as anyone else noticed all the cars in London are scraped, bent, dented■■?
They just dont care… ooop North they would jump out with the baseball bat they had tucked under passenger seat if you cut em up
DS074:
…ooop North they would jump out with the baseball bat they had tucked under passenger seat if you cut em up
Do that in London and you could well end up getting shot