triple-tango:
often a rigid driver will feel the need to drop into conversation that he’s usually an artic driver but he’s just out in a little one today…
Funnily enough had that this morning, chatting to a rigid driver and he said he normally drives class 1 but he’s covering an overtime shift so that’s why he’s on a rigid, I just itched my chin in
that yeah right kind of way.
Ahhhhh class two its like having an automatic only car licence 
Andy smg:
Maybe genuine posters that want us all to stick together as drivers like yesteryear will now sadly call it a day after reading pish like this…
Welcome to modern day UK truck driving…
Spot on 
!
Bernard
I think certain driving jobs are looked down on;
Tippers, Skips, Ro-ros…even supermarket drivers. We all drive the same thing, we just have different loading/unloading methods bolted on.
Tipper drivers do have a reputation (much deserved) but taking a road going vehicle into places fit for tractors is still a skill. I’ve seen several “experienced” drivers come to grief once the tarmac ends.
Or do a private delivery “tip and spread” job, watching for cables, manholes, paving slabs, kids and pets running around, all while you’re trying to keep the gravel from going onto the lawn.
Can’t say I’ve ever felt another driver was being ignorant by not flashing me in when I’ve overtaken them driving a article or rigid. Bad driving comes in all vehicle sizes and that annoys me much more.
As far as I’m concerned its a safety thing for when driving longer slower vehicles. And it’s definitely a help when overtaking a 0.2 mph slower left ■■■■■■ 8 hours into a shift on a rainey night since the drivers sit on opposite sides of the cabs.
Safety first for me, so if I flashed you pull in. If I don’t keep on rolling.
Ched:
I’ve seen it mentioned here before and I’ve seen it on the road.Class 1 drivers look down on Class II drivers. They flash in the artic that overtakes them, but won’t flash in a rigid.
If a class 2 flashes in an artic they never say thankyou, but when they overtake the artic ahead of you and get flashed in they say thanks.
They stare at you when you are reversing at an RDC as if you are driving a robin reliant, they glare at you if you park in the lorry park in a MSA as if you should be parking in the car park.
Is this a size issue? The worst cases I’ve seen tend to be short fat old men thinking they are above everyone else cos their office bends in the middle.
You’re seriously paranoid
But remember some of us lowly rigid drivers become king of the road when we hitch a trailer on the back and it becomes a 61 foot Roadtrain
must be true cos I saw it on the telly
DAF95XF:
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What did surprise me on Friday was getting flashed out by a car BEFORE I put the indicator on
Class 2 driver on his way home
As a sideline I let class 2 drivers have their photo taken in my cab so they can pretend they are proper drivers and show family and friends photos of “their truck”, charge em £5 a time… Made £30 on my break at Lymm the other day.
albion1938:
Andy smg:
Maybe genuine posters that want us all to stick together as drivers like yesteryear will now sadly call it a day after reading pish like this…
Welcome to modern day UK truck driving…Spot on
Bernard
+1 or should that be +2?
Denis F:
But remember some of us lowly rigid drivers become king of the road when we hitch a trailer on the back and it becomes a 61 foot Roadtrainmust be true cos I saw it on the telly
Just because it says “roadtrain” on the back doors doesn’t make it a roadtrain
Just for for the non-truckers…
THIS is a ROADTRAIN…
NOT a roadtrain…
nor this…
MADBAZ:
Denis F:
But remember some of us lowly rigid drivers become king of the road when we hitch a trailer on the back and it becomes a 61 foot Roadtrainmust be true cos I saw it on the telly
Just because it says “roadtrain” on the back doors doesn’t make it a roadtrain
Just for for the non-truckers…
THIS is a ROADTRAIN…
2
NOT a roadtrain…
1
nor this…
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This makes me laugh, I delivered to storage place in Belvedere the other week and a bloke came up to me and started chatting bollox,
“I used to drive the old road trains back in the 90s”
“oh really? What in Australia?”
“no, over here, you could drive them on a class 2 license with a trailer back then”
“lol oh you mean a wagon and drag”
“yeah a road train”
LOL!!! 
Small dinky syndrome
Maybe someone ought to let vosa know that ESL is doing a ■■■■ Denby 
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I gave up class 1 driving 2 years ago & now work 8am till 4.30pm Mon-Fri for not much less money & much more time at home
Although we have an 18 tonner for the bigger jobs, I spend 90% of my time flitting about in a VW Caddy van (62 plate dontcha know) & rarely go further than 50 miles from base.
Do I miss class 1? Not one jot, in fact I moan if I have to use the truck lol
Do I care about attitudes? Nope!
ckm1981:
I hate class 2 drivers, shouldn’t be aloud on the road til they can drive a proper truck.
Lol. and some people shouldn’t be allowed to post till they can spell.
Ched:
I’ve seen it mentioned here before and I’ve seen it on the road.Class 1 drivers look down on Class II drivers. They flash in the artic that overtakes them, but won’t flash in a rigid.
If a class 2 flashes in an artic they never say thankyou, but when they overtake the artic ahead of you and get flashed in they say thanks.
They stare at you when you are reversing at an RDC as if you are driving a robin reliant, they glare at you if you park in the lorry park in a MSA as if you should be parking in the car park.
Is this a size issue? The worst cases I’ve seen tend to be short fat old men thinking they are above everyone else cos their office bends in the middle.
Its Reliant Robin
When I came back to England for a few months last winter I noticed a significant increase in bone idleness ignorance from all classes of truck. I always flash another truck in, be it an artic, rigid or whatever and slow down a bit to let a truck past if he’s only inching past me. Its good manners and I appreciate the same in return. Flashing a truck in isn’t about letting him know the back of his vehicle is 1cm past your bumper, its about letting him know that he’s far enough past that you’re happy for him to pull back in front of you so that at the slightest tap of his breaks you dont slam in to the back of him.
MADBAZ:
Maybe someone ought to let vosa know that ESL is doing a ■■■■ Denby
Huh?
I blame the class system.
