cgscott:
No auch thing as a pro driver. Once you have liscence for vwhicle said you are a driver. So driving a big truck doesnt make you anymore so than driving a reliant robin motorbike or cycle.
Its merely biding by rules that apply.
Robrpy the trucker is no better than a man steering his bike to work. As long as both comply with legislations set out to them by law they both must obide by that.
Unfortunately some people gruntle at the law and dont follow rules.
I’d wager though that RobRoy is much better at driving than you are typing. Bit early to be drunk isn’t it?
switchlogic:
cgscott:
No auch thing as a pro driver. Once you have liscence for vwhicle said you are a driver. So driving a big truck doesnt make you anymore so than driving a reliant robin motorbike or cycle.
Its merely biding by rules that apply.
Robrpy the trucker is no better than a man steering his bike to work. As long as both comply with legislations set out to them by law they both must obide by that.
Unfortunately some people gruntle at the law and dont follow rules.
I’d wager though that RobRoy is much better at driving than you are typing. Bit early to be drunk isn’t it?
Not when you have fat fingers and parkinsons disease? Are you being a discrimanate prick now. Or saying all driver who cant spell should not be behind the wheel?
Absolutely. Drivers who can’t spell should be executed quite frankly.
Funny how suddenly you can type just fine 
Not quite an aside.
Many years back a car driver came into the yard I was working. He was pretty calm considering one of our trucks had pulled out if the gate right in front if his car, and he had to do an emergency stop.
One of the yard staff saw it too so knew who the culprit was.
Anyway, long and short, the driver was called in, and was after a lot of talking, union involved etc, given anger management councilling by the company.
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Modern snowflakes? This is 40 odd years ago, crash boxes, rope and sheet etc. Not wusses.
For my part, I know the guy had a few personal issues, but the way he was acting was an accident (Maybe a serious one) waiting to happen. Balanced reaction to a serious incident, by the company.
Would I have gone to the office myself?
Doubtful. But I think I should have, and I might have been wimping out because he was a work mate.
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Will we be allowed to report on cyclists. They should have number plates. I see suicidal ones in London all the time.
Thats what this industry bis full of…grasses. When I was driving 98 percent of every driver I ever met was a grass. One guy for a milk firm used to wait out side the entrance on his break to see if drivers pulled up near the butty can then grass them up. There is some thing mentally wrong with drivers that I have never seen with other jobs. I’ve been having a conversation with other drivers and other drivers have stood near us to listen in. I’ve seen one driver see another driver come in the yard for the agency ,he worked with him at another place then he walked straight in to transport and told lies about him. I’ve seen tipper wagon guys grass up other drivers for having there break ten mins early. I was at a drop once and thete was a firm from the north east , I said to the driver do I pull in here to unload wen your gone ?. He said yes I won’t be long , I said is that other driver if your before me ,he said no he’s watching me to see if I strap up proper to tell the office. I’ve seen one driver at 5 in the morning have a ■■■■ n xt to his wheel after he hook up ect with his unit done everything and the other driver rang the office wen the staff came in. They are sociopathic who lack empathy not thinking hold on this guy has got kids to feed I’ll go over and say listen mate the last guy got sacked because of a b or c do it this way. They are petrified bof going home to the missus with no job and they can’t do anything else as a working class man can’t earn 550 a week and they have become financial slaves and bitter about the job they chose working 75 hours a week. I’ve walked in to transport offices and seen drivers blatantly grass other drivers up . Like I said I’ve worked doing different jobs and I have never ever seen the grassing like I have seen what hgv drivers do to each other.
eagerbeaver:
Punchy Dan:
Conor:
Yes and I have done. Pass me watching a film on your phone or tablet weaving all over L1 and the hard shoulder whilst you’re driving and I’ll be on the blower to the police if you ignore my banging my hand on the horn, pointing at it and giving the coffee bean shake. North Yorkshire Police are incredibly effective at stopping lorries on a night time on the A1M and they’ve usually little to do up near Leeming Bar so they’ll come out when you phone em up. Worst one the police were sat in L2 in a marked car right next to his drivers door staring up at him for about a mile then tugged him.
Most of the time though stuff can be dealt with by a phone call to the number on the cab or the trailer but I can count the number of times on the fingers of one hand I’ve done that and it’s usually been pallet network loons.
Owt else like a driver not doing checks or whatever to do with the job he can go fill his boots, he’ll drop himself in it at one point or another and doesn’t need any help from anyone else to do it.
Just out of interest how many give you a 2 finger wave back 
btw how do you make all those hand gestures with them both on the wheel do you bang the horn with your forehead
I found this amusing too
pistonheads.com/gassing/top … =0&t=82316
DickyNick:
the maoster:
It must have infuriated you when they didn’t sack the driver? ^^^^
Nope. Didn’t want him sacked. Just wanted him to be advised and get a bollocking for it.
So you make threats of going to the TC and Police of course you didn’t want him prosecuted or sacked.
I don’t see a problem with this. I bet most of you moan like ■■■■ when the police spend resources on trying to catch car drivers being naughty. Buzz phrases like cash cows and easy targets get thrown around. Shouldn’t they be catching rapists and murderers instead.
Now they’ve come up with a way to catch them without using any front line officers at all. And low and behold you’re still not happy. And for what, coz some knob head dangerous driver might get prosecuted. Hmmmm, isn’t that what they deserve.
Let’s face it, most people who drive like knob heads do so coz they assume they’ll never be caught. No cops around, no speed cameras, flat to the mat.
Maybe they’ll think twice now if every car is a potential witness.
cgscott:
switchlogic:
cgscott:
No auch thing as a pro driver. Once you have liscence for vwhicle said you are a driver. So driving a big truck doesnt make you anymore so than driving a reliant robin motorbike or cycle.
Its merely biding by rules that apply.
Robrpy the trucker is no better than a man steering his bike to work. As long as both comply with legislations set out to them by law they both must obide by that.
Unfortunately some people gruntle at the law and dont follow rules.
I’d wager though that RobRoy is much better at driving than you are typing. Bit early to be drunk isn’t it?
Not when you have fat fingers and parkinsons disease? Are you being a discrimanate prick now. Or saying all driver who cant spell should not be behind the wheel?
To be fair. How was he supposed to know you have obese fingers and a medical condition.
discoman:
cgscott:
switchlogic:
cgscott:
No auch thing as a pro driver. Once you have liscence for vwhicle said you are a driver. So driving a big truck doesnt make you anymore so than driving a reliant robin motorbike or cycle.
Its merely biding by rules that apply.
Robrpy the trucker is no better than a man steering his bike to work. As long as both comply with legislations set out to them by law they both must obide by that.
Unfortunately some people gruntle at the law and dont follow rules.
I’d wager though that RobRoy is much better at driving than you are typing. Bit early to be drunk isn’t it?
Not when you have fat fingers and parkinsons disease? Are you being a discrimanate prick now. Or saying all driver who cant spell should not be behind the wheel?
To be fair. How was he supposed to know you have obese fingers and a medical condition.
I thought “Obese Fingers” WAS a medical condition?
Come to that, there’s a huge difference between “Can’t Spell” and “Can’t type”.
dieseldog999:
Grumpy_old_trucker:
the maoster:
^^^^^ . They speak so highly of our Conor! How to win friends and influence people
He’s a feisty one, on another forum he prints his full name and address and requests The pleasure of another forum member so he can beat the living daylights out of him.
Maybe he isn’t just a keyboard warrior but is in training to be a full blown loony.
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possibly part of his attitude problem is that he actually has a name called MR T ■■
What’s the betting that his middle names are Ulysses Norman, if they aren’t then they should be!
Grumpy_old_trucker:
dieseldog999:
Grumpy_old_trucker:
the maoster:
^^^^^ . They speak so highly of our Conor! How to win friends and influence people
He’s a feisty one, on another forum he prints his full name and address and requests The pleasure of another forum member so he can beat the living daylights out of him.
Maybe he isn’t just a keyboard warrior but is in training to be a full blown loony.
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possibly part of his attitude problem is that he actually has a name called MR T ■■
What’s the betting that his middle names are Ulysses Norman, if they aren’t then they should be!
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be fair,
if he lives in driffield ( assuming you can call that living),then he will have to go to hull for the big shop every week and if its a day trip to the seaside then its bridlington ffs…how much grief can any one man suffer■■?
in reality though,we all know he will just be a complete fanny who wouldnt say boo to a goose,but would just love to,hence the keyboard warrior on here…
By Conor’s alpha confident attitude, I always had him down as looking something like this.
But now I know different.
prob more realistic if he was wearing the hiviz version of these…
.the perfect addition for the complete fanny ensemble.
Grumpy_old_trucker:
He’s a feisty one, on another forum he prints his full name and address and requests The pleasure of another forum member so he can beat the living daylights out of him…
Seriously?..Give your address out?..surely not .
Nah you don’t do that,…that’s Volume 1 page one on ‘The Streetwise guide’… you’ve got to be pretty hard and/or confident to the point that your names either Kray or Fury or summet and have the required back up to do that ffs. 
Wife/girlfriend and kids all at risk of a gallon of petrol and a match through the letterbox if you upset some ■■■■ ■■■■■■.
