Glen Clark:
When I am driving my car and I see a lorry travelling very close behind, so close that I know he could not stop if I had to brake suddenly, the only thing I can think of doing is to slow down for safety’s sake. I guess the lorry driver then thinks why is he going so slow. How can I get the message to the pillock that the reason I am going so slow is that he is following so close?
My advice to you lad, is pull of the road as soon you can and get out of the vehicle and get a bus or other public transport home. The roads are bad enough without some brainless [zb] as yourself on them, just my opinion. Isn’t it blindingly obvious that you should just give it some gas for a couple of minutes to give yourself a safe distance and peace of mind its not rocket science, as for the pillock in the wagon he’ll be thinking I must not come of the limiter for no man sorry but these are the times we live in now my friend.
The response of an unprofessional driver.
Please tell me why you have come to this conclusion ?
he has the supermarket blinkers on stu that and being a “merchant banker”
how dare a professional driver go over 40mph on a S/C when the road ahead is clear and the road conditions suit you putting your foot down and getting a muppet like the O/P braking in front of you when you catch them up
i see on another post that the stopping distance at 55mph is 220ft?
if you can’t see that far ahead change your username to Mr Magoo and buy a bus ticket
there’s no need in the real world why a truck should be able to keep up with a car unless the car driver is driving too slow for the road and conditions
how many times i catch up with cars on a motorway then when i pull out to overtake they shoot off leaving me stranded is unbelievable, if you can’t drive a car quicker than a restricted truck there’s something wrong with your confidence level
Guys guys guys… it’s nothing to do with not being able to drive (or at least I don’t think it is ), it’s to do with trying to save fuel because they can’t really afford it. This is why when driving your truck you spend all your time in lane 2 overtaking cars doing 45 mph because they’re trying to save 20p on their fuel bill.
Glen Clark:
The problem I have is that I remember that bit in the Highway Code that says you should only travel at a speed where you can stop within the distance you can see to be clear in front of you.
GLENCLARK…After a long and much thought out debating (mas or mens ) You are actually a ■■■■■■■ complete moron!!! You should get banned from driving just for trying to remember every little bit about the highway code…I dont go to ■■■■■■■ KFC and try to remember every little thing about how to make popcorn ■■■■■■■ chicken and if i did, then i`d BAN myself from the shop for being so ■■■■■■■■ maticulous!!!
Come on guys, ease up, his posts aren’t THAT bad! “Remove yourself from the gene pool” is rather harsh too imho, and that comes from Mr. Harsh himself .
welshboyinspain:
i see on another post that the stopping distance at 55mph is 220ft?
if you can’t see that far ahead change your username to Mr Magoo and buy a bus ticket
You have two major choices, increase your speed or pull in and let him past.
Slowing down to force the truck to slow down is not only selfish, it’s also potentially more dangerous than making progress akin to the road conditions.
Above all, I would compare the situation of a car driver, who is generally not doing a job or under a deadline, to a wagon driver who is generally both of those things. And make life easier for the guy in work.
You might even find he was up your chuff to try and make you see that you were, in fact, in the wrong. If you can afford us an explanation of the full circumstances I may even retract that at some point but I’m struggling to be sympathetic to someone who can’t work this out for themselves.
And has obviously never driven anything vaguely big.
In answer to your original question about how can you let a tailgater know that they’re driving too close, I would answer that you can’t. It is unlikely the tailgater considers himself or herself to be driving too close, otherwise he or she wouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
My advice would be to continue to drive at the speed you feel is safe and legal (so don’t slow down just because you are being tailgated), and to increase the distance between you and any vehicle that you happen to be following. This will enable you to stop safely if the vehicle in front stops suddenly and also allow for extra stopping distance that the tailgater has failed to allow for.
As soon as it is safe to do so, pull over (in a layby, for example) and let the tailgater pass.
I think this advice would apply to all tailgating incidents, whether the tailgater is in a truck or a car.
There have been a few adverse comments in this post about your driving, centering mainly around the fact that you may be driving too slowly for the conditions. Those that criticise should know better. The speed limit is just that, a limit, not a target. However, a lot of people do not drive up to the speed limit when it may be perfectly safe to do so. I would recommend that you go along to a local Institute of Advanced Motorists or RoSPA advanced drivers meeting, if you’ve not already done so. You will receive a warm welcome and you will be able to have your driving assessed and receive coaching in improving your techniques. They will show you that it is often safe to drive up to the legal limit, but also when it is not.
Kevy:
…(so don’t slow down just because you are being tailgated), and to increase the distance between you and any vehicle that you happen to be following.
So don’t slow down but increase the distance between you and the vehicle in front, how’s that going to work then if the vehicle in front isn’t accelerating away from you?
Kevy:
The speed limit is just that, a limit, not a target.
Why is it that in every one of these discussions some fellator comes on and spouts this bit of crap as if it actually means something? There’s nothing wrong with targeting the limit. It’s the people who drive along saying this to themselves who often cause all the problems, especially those doing about 40 through the 50 average speed sections on the motorways.
Kevy:
I would recommend that you go along to a local Institute of Advanced Motorists or RoSPA advanced drivers meeting, if you’ve not already done so. You will receive a warm welcome and you will be able to have your driving assessed and receive coaching in improving your techniques. They will show you that it is often safe to drive up to the legal limit, but also when it is not.
I hadn’t finished reading the first sentence of your post and I just knew you were one of them and this was going to appear.
Glen Clark:
The problem I have is that I remember that bit in the Highway Code that says you should only travel at a speed where you can stop within the distance you can see to be clear in front of you.
GLENCLARK…After a long and much thought out debating (mas or mens ) You are actually a [zb] complete moron!!! You should get banned from driving just for trying to remember every little bit about the highway code…I dont go to [zb] KFC and try to remember every little thing about how to make popcorn [zb] chicken and if i did, then i`d BAN myself from the shop for being so ■■■■■■■■ maticulous!!!
GO HOME!!!
That.s you told Glen OOOh I can,t stop Oh Zb I have .Ive PMSL I,m off ter change me trousers
Coffeeholic:
I hadn’t finished reading the first sentence of your post and I just knew you were one of them and this was going to appear.
I wonder why you thought that? Is it because I’ve given some constructive advice, rather than launch into a personal attack with moronic abuse. Perhaps you might like to moderate out anyone who doesn’t conform you this forum’s style of trying to belittle others.
Obviously you have to slow down to increase the gap if the other car isn’t accelerating, but did it occur to you that once the gap has been established you can then resume the same speed as the car in front?
Have you actually got anything sensible to say? I guess it’s far too easy to critisice others instead of actually trying to be useful.
Kevy:
Obviously you have to slow down to increase the gap if the other car isn’t accelerating, but did it occur to you that once the gap has been established you can then resume the same speed as the car in front?
Yes that did occur which is why…
Kevy:
Have you actually got anything sensible to say? I guess it’s far too easy to critisice others instead of actually trying to be useful.
…I gave exactly the same advice you did earlier in the thread but without coming out with the same old BS about targets and limits and banging on about the IAM.
Coffeeholic:
…I gave exactly the same advice you did earlier in the thread but without coming out with the same old BS about targets and limits and banging on about the IAM.
Then I assume you agree with me that the OP’s driving could probably do with improving. We both agree that people often don’t drive up to the legal limit when it is perfectly safe to do so.
I actually said:
The speed limit is just that, a limit, not a target. However, a lot of people do not drive up to the speed limit when it may be perfectly safe to do so.
You edited out the bit where I say that people often don’t drive up to the speed limit and concentrated on the first bit about targeting speed limits. You then went on to complain that people should drive up to the speed limit as though I hadn’t already made that point.
So far, we seem to be in total agreement!
The bit you take issue with then is my ‘banging on’ (I mention it once) about the IAM. How else would you suggest the OP improve?
I can see my mistake. It would probably have been more acceptable to have concluded with:
Glen, what the heck are you doing driving a car or any vehcile for that matter. Get the bus, get a taxi or, better yet, get a bike and then I can more easily remove you from society with my 44-tonne truck. How do you manage to go through life without seriously hurting yourself. Do you have to wear a bump cap? Have all the sharp objects been removed from your reach? You’re obviously only trying to wind-up, insult and infuriate us truckers on here. Get a life!
Coffeeholic:
…I gave exactly the same advice you did earlier in the thread but without coming out with the same old BS about targets and limits and banging on about the IAM.
Then I assume you agree with me that the OP’s driving could probably do with improving.
I know nothing about the OP’s driving to say whether it needs improving or not, I have never seen him drive. There is not enough information about the incident he mentioned to form that opinion. all we know he was driving along with someone right up his chuff and he asked for ways to deal with that. We don’t know about the road, the speed limits, traffic volumes and so on, so to assume the guys driving needs improving is more than a little patronising.
Coffeeholic:
to assume the guys driving needs improving is more than a little patronising.
You’re right, that was more than a little patronising and for that I apologise unreservedly. However, can anyone one of us say that our driving couldn’t be improved? It would have to be a very arrogant person to claim that their driving was so good it was beyond improvement.
I’m not sure why you’ve taken issue with me when there are plenty of posts on here that are down right insulting to the OP and that show the so-called professional driver in a less than favourable light when my only crime is to have been inadvertently and unintentionally patronising. I assume your comments towards me don’t fall into the patronising category?
Coffeeholic:
I hadn’t finished reading the first sentence of your post and I just knew you were one of them and this was going to appear.
Coffeeholic:
to assume the guys driving needs improving is more than a little patronising.
You’re right, that was more than a little patronising and for that I apologise unreservedly. However, can anyone one of us say that our driving couldn’t be improved? It would have to be a very arrogant person to claim that their driving was so good it was beyond improvement.
True, mine could for instance but I just don’t care enough because I get where I want to be, and back, with no dramas or accidents, well not for the last 18 years anyway and just one since August 1977, and only the occasional near miss. That’s good enough for me.
Kevy:
I’m not sure why you’ve taken issue with me
Could be anyone of a number of reasons.
Kevy:
when there are plenty of posts on here that are down right insulting to the OP and that show the so-called professional driver in a less than favourable light when my only crime is to have been inadvertently and unintentionally patronising.
I don’t buy into this professional driver thing, it’s a semi-skilled labourers job at best and only professional in the sense we get paid for it. To quote one of my favourite posters on here, “You can bake dog turds and sell them and that makes you a professional dog turd baker.”
Kevy:
I assume your comments towards me don’t fall into the patronising category?
Coffeeholic:
I hadn’t finished reading the first sentence of your post and I just knew you were one of them and this was going to appear.
That wasn’t patronising, that was a statement of fact. Before I finished reading the first sentence I knew you would be mentioning the IAM and you did.
if you feel the driver behind is too close - sometimes just putting the hazards on for a few seconds gets the message across in a friendly way
slamming on the brakes or slowing down is a last resort
but if the road is sc and your in a car doing 40 you should really get a bit more of a move on
cheers
Steve
), it’s to do with trying to save fuel because they can’t really afford it. This is why when driving your truck you spend all your time in lane 2 overtaking cars doing 45 mph because they’re trying to save 20p on their fuel bill. 
) You are actually a ■■■■■■■ complete moron!!! You should get banned from driving just for trying to remember every little bit about the highway code…I dont go to ■■■■■■■ KFC and try to remember every little thing about how to make popcorn ■■■■■■■ chicken and if i did, then i`d BAN myself from the shop for being so ■■■■■■■■ maticulous!!! 
“Remove yourself from the gene pool” is rather harsh too imho, and that comes from Mr. Harsh himself 
