Your pet hates while out on the road

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Terry T:

Silver_Surfer:
Car mimsers in lane one that speed up by 1mph when you go to overtake them & then slow down by 1mph when you give up & drop back in or match your speed precisely the moment you are parallel with them. Seriously lose the will to live when I get this, Darwin isn’t doing his job.

If I was Chris Eubank in his Mack I’d just leave it on cruise and push them up the motorway, they’d soon speed up.

I’ve had an unusual amount of these pricks today, they should be took off the road. Why car drivers insist on hanging around on motorways at 55 is beyond me.

Probably doing 55 for the same reason why a lot of trucks are limited to a lower speed!

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I think that car drivers are trying to save fuel by driving slowly .IMO no one should be on a M.Way if they cant or wont do 60mph in their car.Obviously this doesnt apply in fog,snow or heavy rain.

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alamcculloch:
I think that car drivers are trying to save fuel by driving slowly .IMO no one should be on a M.Way if they cant or wont do 60mph in their car.Obviously this doesnt apply in fog,snow or heavy rain.

Has a minimum speed limit been applied to motorways?

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My cab curtains are flowery ?

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Dipper_Dave:
My biggest pet hate is trying to pour a cuppa and having to keep checking my mirrors in case some bugger with a camcorder is filming me in action.

After years of tea pouring experience I can do it without taking my eyes off the road even if occasionally I do pour the tea into the wrong cup holder section that has no cup in it.

Lol top lad

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4aaaa4dd:
My cab curtains are flowery ?

If you hide behind them [as you would if flowery] then that’s one of mine. :wink:

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weeto:
And now you’ve started a post that will probably end up 10 pages long that not many people will want to read, lol.

Four posts thus far on a topic you deem beneath you! There is an available option to ignore you know.

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I have a lot of pet hates, although I wouldn’t say I lose sleep over them and I accept I’m not perfect either.

  1. Lane discipline, 4 lanes in a carriageway and 99% of the traffic in in the 2 righthand lanes.
  2. barging in,
  3. On the other side of that people who don’t understand the idea of merge in turn and think everybody should move into one lane 2 miles before the lane is reduced.
  4. Driving with side light on in poor visibility. I double manned a truck with somebody who thought that was the correct position to have the light switch in, he would believe me until I showed him the truck manual where it stated it was the position for parking lights.
  5. And I can only assume that the many other must think the same thing, especially when you see them using them with fog lights.
  6. driving with door mirrors folded in.
  7. Getting stuck in traffic only to find that the queues don’t move at the same pace so the car with the attractive lady in the short skirt move forward and I get to look at some hairy arsed builder picking his nose or even a cross dressing truck driver.
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4x4 drivers who insist on sitting at 55mph in the first lane, so I have to come off the limiter, but can’t get past them either… I’m not into 16 mile overtakes. :unamused:
If they were that concerned about “fuel consumption” then WHY tf did they buy a damned gas guzzler in the first place?? :imp: :imp:

4x4 drivers who don’t live in the country, and have no need of such a vehicle therefore.

4x4 drivers who fancy themselves better drivers than me, because they can afford £48k and I can’t.

4x4 drivers who have one parking space, but then buy a second one to hog my parking space as well.

4x4 drivers who have a spare wheel across their front windscreen, and expect me to keep out of their erratic driving way…

4x4 drivers who have bull bars, and use the damned thing to pick up their kids…

People carriers that pull up outside schools, and one kid gets out…

Van drivers who don’t know how to use mirrors, and take yours off in passing…

Hire 7.5t drivers who don’t know it’s got more than 4 gears, coming past you revving the nuts off it.

Cyclists who ride through red lights.

Roundabout users who don’t let you know where they are going, so you can’t get out in rush hour.

Car park users who park across two spaces, and don’t get a ticket when I only have to park facing the wrong way to get done…

Anyone using their car to drive less than a mile round trip, and it’s not even raining.

The idiot who insists on coming up fast on the outside, before cutting in and braking hard when 3 lanes cone down into 1… :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :angry:
How many accidents in the road works are caused by THIS alone? :frowning:

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The one about people not indicating to turn off a roundabout rings a few bells with me. And the ones about people trying to duck into a queue at the last minute. General lack of common courtesy is what it boils down to, I suppose.

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A good few miles of traffic that refuse to use the hard shoulder when it is allowed.The signs are up but the sheep blindly follow the lead sheep.
Laybys that are full of cars where they have been left for the day by sharing a lift near motorway junctions.
Badly maintained Msa’s.Strensham S/b is disgraceful.
Large pot holes/craters.No money spent to repair it.
Cars with side lights on in the dark.
Dive bombers.Sit behind you then overtake to exit and miss the front by inches.
Ex Army tank commanders that peer out of an inch wide hole with the windscreen covered in snow/ice.
Three feet of snow on top of cars.When they brake the snow moves and they can not see.
Car and truck drivers that hoot the horn all night when i am asleep.

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toby1234abc:
A good few miles of traffic that refuse to use the hard shoulder when it is allowed.The signs are up but the sheep blindly follow the lead sheep.
Laybys that are full of cars where they have been left for the day by sharing a lift near motorway junctions.
Badly maintained Msa’s.Strensham S/b is disgraceful.
Large pot holes/craters.No money spent to repair it.
Cars with side lights on in the dark.
Dive bombers.Sit behind you then overtake to exit and miss the front by inches.
Ex Army tank commanders that peer out of an inch wide hole with the windscreen covered in snow/ice.
Three feet of snow on top of cars.When they brake the snow moves and they can not see.
Car and truck drivers that hoot the horn all night when i am asleep.

I’m one of those who avoids using “managed” hard shoulders outright.
They are an accident waiting to happen…
Come over the brow of a hill like near the M42/M40 junction, and what do you do if you’ve halfway overtaken by another artic at the time, doing 50, and there i front of you there’s a car pulled up to let their kid have a ■■■■ in the bushes…

“Allowed” and “not allowed” doesn’t make something “advisable” or even “correct”. :exclamation:

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Anti truck Nimbies that quote facts they know nothing about in the media.
Thundering juggernauts going flat out at 80 mph down the high street is a line they spin.
Dog walkers and prams nearly killed, cause carnage as nasty lorries mount the pavements is another yarn.
P or newly passed car drivers.I can not see the point of those.
You have past the test,so what,do you want a medal.
Come back from holiday and some tool has got the susies in a tangle and covered in grease.
Sugsr and food crumbs left in the cab.And rooted through the lockers for a nosey.
Farm tractors that can go at fast speeds never give way.
I am coming through, get out of my way.
Do they know where the brake pedal is.
School mums blocking the roads with poor parking.

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My pet hate is they’ve shut all the bag house,s down at truck stops ? What’s a lonely trucker to do with himself now winter is closing in …

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4aaaa4dd:
My pet hate is they’ve shut all the bag house,s down at truck stops ? What’s a lonely trucker to do with himself now winter is closing in …

Has your cab got flowery curtains? :wink:

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Wot’s a bag house? :confused:

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Not a lot annoys me and i tend to let most things wash over me but one thing i do detest and therefore i don’t do myself is drive far too close to another hgv, why do some drive so close sometimes because if for some reason i have to slam on the anchors i don’t want some ■■■■■ in a truck ploughing into the back of me do i. :angry: :angry:

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My DCPC"trainer"said that a convoy of trucks going nose to tail save the Co.fuel.So now you know :laughing:

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my pet peeve by a long way are truckers in empty wagons that pull out to overtake another empty truck on downhill bits when they can clearly see in their mirror a truck rapidly gaining on them in lane 2, clearly fully loaded. and if that wasnt bad enough, truckers that do the above in already overly limited wagons for example the 2 complete idiots in the coop 18 tonner and wiseman artic just after tibshelf northbound yesterday morning. both limited to 50 and they sat side by side making no progress all the way to mcdonalds at 29a. :angry: :angry: :angry:

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People who don’t indicate when turning right at islands but indicate at their exit, what’s that all about?

The A60, M25, Dartford tunnel, motorway matrix systems, people texting at the wheel, M6 junc 4 - 15. Love my trucking.

Keep safe folks…