m.a.n rules:
FFS, rob stop digging you’ll end up in aus…
Heaven forbid! We stopped taking his kind 150 years ago.
Tracking is out , had a daf doing this the other week , pulling to the left , reported , not had lorry since so no idea if sorted
No suprise though that driver gets blamed for a obvious mechanical fault
Conor:
yourhavingalarf:
The third one being it never happened at all.You don’t do night trunking do you? Happens often, usually when you manage to pass them they’re watching something on a tablet or their mobile phone.
I did have one guy I would regularly come across on the A1, like all who do the same trunks regularly you get to recognise vehicles you come across often. I’d often catch him up at Wetherby services and over the course of a few months he got worse and worse. Not doing anything untowards, both hands on the wheel when you passed him, no screens lighting up the cab but obviously struggling to keep awake. He wasn’t a young guy either, looked like he should’ve been retired years ago. Eventually phoned up his employer and had a chat with the transport manager, said he wasn’t doing anything he shouldn’t but suggesting maybe he was starting to struggle doing nights.
You actually rung someone elses employer up to discuss how he was driving and doing nothing untoward? Yet this call could have got the guy sacked or at least in trouble? If the guy was that much of a danger surely ringing highways or police is the thing to do, not his employers?
Swordsy:
Conor:
yourhavingalarf:
The third one being it never happened at all.You don’t do night trunking do you? Happens often, usually when you manage to pass them they’re watching something on a tablet or their mobile phone.
I did have one guy I would regularly come across on the A1, like all who do the same trunks regularly you get to recognise vehicles you come across often. I’d often catch him up at Wetherby services and over the course of a few months he got worse and worse. Not doing anything untowards, both hands on the wheel when you passed him, no screens lighting up the cab but obviously struggling to keep awake. He wasn’t a young guy either, looked like he should’ve been retired years ago. Eventually phoned up his employer and had a chat with the transport manager, said he wasn’t doing anything he shouldn’t but suggesting maybe he was starting to struggle doing nights.
You actually rung someone elses employer up to discuss how he was driving and doing nothing untoward? Yet this call could have got the guy sacked or at least in trouble? If the guy was that much of a danger surely ringing highways or police is the thing to do, not his employers?
C’mon mate 
…,.Who can honestly say that they don’t spend their time driving, being a self appointed Road Marshall as a sideline, .wearing a hi viz Cape,.
Observing misdemeanors, righting wrongs, ringing up firms that do not employ drivers up to standard in their view, and keeping the rest of us road users safe to go about our business… ,.with the Old Bill on speed dial.
I know I do. 
lol well said rob…
Punchy Dan:
yourhavingalarf:
the maoster:
Conor:
. I’ll be honest I don’t think you’ve ever driven lorries given how you seem to never have experience what everyone else apparently has.I agree! I reckon that neither YHAL nor that uppity Punchard fella who you also accused of being a fantasist have never set foot in anything larger than a Micra
To be fair…
I don’t think the uppity Mr Punchard drives lorries either.
Someone woke the Turra coo
Muddy K:
So was driving up the A1 and the HGV infront of me starts to cross the white line into the hard shoulder. He gets about half way into the hard shoulder and then eases back into the live lane.1 min later he does it again, 80% of his truck into the hard shoulder, then makes a sharp correction back into lane 1 narrowly missing a cone and some temporary traffic signs on the hard shoulder.
I’m like wtf is he doing. So I tried to pull up alongside him to make sure he’s ok, but am limited to 53. He’s also doing 53. I pull into lane 2 (of 3) to make sure no traffic is getting close to him.
He drifts off a few more times but not as bad as before. He always drifts off to the left and never to the right into lane 2 (so doesn’t endanger other traffic at any point). I have 999 dialed on my phone, but never actually press the call button. (In case I think it’s a medical emergency). However as I never manage to pull up alongside him, I don’t know what’s going on…
I follow him for 10 miles, trying to pull up alongside him to see into his cab but never managed it. Eventually he indicates right and accelerates to 56 and along he goes.
After the initial swerve into the hard shoulder, he does it again about 4/5 times but not as bad.
So what would you do?
Ironically on the way back down the A1 later in the day, the same but this time with a Class 1. He does it a couple of times but then seems fine after that.
You were really, really foolish and lucky you were not involved in an RTA,
You should have slowed down kept Left and stayed behind him. If possible notifying PC Plod so they could check him out,
The questions you should ask yourself are,
Is he DWI, Tired, on the phone / texting, and all the other potential actions that create inattention… Which is a leading cause of RTA’s world wide.
Punchy Dan:
Someone woke the Turra coo
I think,in this day and age,we need to drive with knowing we are being watched all the time in cab cameras,cameras from the bridges.I dont that just because somebody rings in and said I wasnt keepi g it in a straight line.I dont thats enough in itself to sack someone
When I finally took the plunge and left teaching to start driving class one full time in 2018, my first gig was night trunking for Howdens.
One night, coming back over the A66 from Penrith or Lockerbie,. I forget which, I was nodding off.
When you’re in that state, you don’t really realise it. That’s the problem.
Anyway, a few miles before scotch corner I must’ve been doing what you describe above, because someone came past me with horn repeatedly blasting, and gave me a start. I pulled over and had a 45 minute sleep, which made me feel like a new man and allowed me to continue to Howden.
To this day, I thank that fellow truck driver for, a) waking me up on that instance, and b) alerting me to the need to ensure I am fully rested. It was literally and ins wider sense, “a wake-up call”.
I was a danger to myself and others that night, and probably a few other nights before. Since then I have NEVER compromised on safety, and have even left a job over it, when asked by transport staff why I couldn’t “just push through” fatigue (yes, that was Howdens too).
I thank that trucker, and if I see someone in a similar situation I give them a few good blasts too, for their sake and everyone else’s. Don’t hold back - it’s too important.
Shandy123:
When I finally took the plunge and left teaching to start driving class one full time in 2018, my first gig was night trunking for Howdens.
One night, coming back over the A66 from Penrith or Lockerbie,. I forget which, I was nodding off.When you’re in that state, you don’t really realise it. That’s the problem.
Anyway, a few miles before scotch corner I must’ve been doing what you describe above, because someone came past me with horn repeatedly blasting, and gave me a start. I pulled over and had a 45 minute sleep, which made me feel like a new man and allowed me to continue to Howden.
To this day, I thank that fellow truck driver for, a) waking me up on that instance, and b) alerting me to the need to ensure I am fully rested. It was literally and ins wider sense, “a wake-up call”.
I was a danger to myself and others that night, and probably a few other nights before. Since then I have NEVER compromised on safety, and have even left a job over it, when asked by transport staff why I couldn’t “just push through” fatigue (yes, that was Howdens too).
I thank that trucker, and if I see someone in a similar situation I give them a few good blasts too, for their sake and everyone else’s. Don’t hold back - it’s too important.
Howdens eh? hmmmm
Were you running alone or in tandem convoy?
Not to put too fine a point on it., but at least the guy was decent enough to give you a warning…I’ve actually heard there are one or two self appointed '‘Road Commanders’'on that route at that time of night, looking after all our welfare, with the Old Bill in the ‘‘Friends’’ section of their phone directory,.and on speed dial, helping them with their arrest rate.
I’ll say no more. 
robroy:
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Howdens eh? hmmmm
Were you running alone or in tandem convoy?wink:
I was alone mate. Never heard about the tandem convoy thing? I just worked their “period eleven” rush for them as a Ltd driver, so was only there a couple of months.
Shandy123:
robroy:
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Howdens eh? hmmmm
Were you running alone or in tandem convoy?wink:
I was alone mate. Never heard about the tandem convoy thing? I just worked their “period eleven” rush for them as a Ltd driver, so was only there a couple of months.
Don t worry about it mate., I was being mischievous, there’s a few on here who knows what I was getting at,…ignore me.