Why do truck drivers...

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by snotty, Apr 18, 2019.

  1. Smoking smoky and the bandit;)


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  2. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Whats the French for Idiot....would they not need those signs too?
     
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  3. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Idiot!
     
  4. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    No Le or La?


    Maybe it comes with a physical gesture.


    Very expressive bunch the French, aren't they?
     
  5. Poptop2

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    Don’t know. I’ve only heard people say ‘ Toi idiot!’
     
  6. matty

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  8. Foreign lorry drivers like to have a communal fry-up on the front bumper of their tractor unit. Several stood around in the obligatory grubby t-shirts and shorts.

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  9. Transports Internationaux Routiers

    Now you know what the blue and white TIR plate on the trailers stands for.
     
  10. Didn’t Stuart Hall used to do that? Hahahahahahah...
     
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  11. nicktuft

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  12. We were easily amused in those days :rolleyes:
     
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  13. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    That old chord the border people thought secured the load unde TIR regulations. Yeah ;)
     
  14. ginger ninja

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    Why do they indicate left/right or right/left when u flash them in rather than a simple hazards flash?

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  15. matty

    matty Supporter

    Because they would have to move there arm to reach the hazard switch and most lorry drivers don’t like to move unless it involves Fried food
     
  16. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    And we move for the other communication with skateboarders

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  17. Why do lorry drivers hog so many lanes?

    Example is the long hill on the m1 north that starts near junction 9 and doesn’t really flatten out till about half way to junction 11.

    Lane one - lorry at 58mph
    Lane two - lorry driver decides to overtake as he can do 59mph
    Lane three - lorry driver decides he can overtake both of them as he can do 60mph

    Result is for miles and miles all three lanes blocked by these ignorant *****s and every other road user has to drive at their speed or funnel into the outside lane and squeeze past.

    Then when we get to the top of the hill they all move into the inside lane about 20ft in front of each other.

    Personally I’d ban hgvs from anything but the inside lane unless they are overtaking a stationary vehicle in lane one, or arm my transit with the gun off of an A10 tank buster and I’ll deal with them on everyone’s behalf.
     
  18. Poptop2

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    I’m going to try and enlighten you a bit in simple terms and hope you are a little more patient in future.

    A lorry is a very heavy bit of kit. It weighs up to ( and most are) 44 tons. That is 36 times heavier than the average car. We take a mile or two to get up to full speed and we need to maintain the revs to negotiate hills at top speed and avoid slowing everyone up to twenty or thirty miles an hour which is what happens when we lose revs. The government has decided for economy purposes to restrict lorries to around 56mph. Some are 52 mph and most vary at about that, some are slightly faster. It is only at an hill that this really shows. We then try to maintain the revs by passing slower vehicles as swiftly as possible, but this is when the varying restrictors come into play. Everyone is trying to keep up the revs and some are beginning to lose them, but need now to maintain as high a speed as possible. No one can yield because then you lose all the revs very suddenly and everyone is down to 30 mph or less. It’s a very difficult thing to get right, particularly if a slower driver moved into your lane or as in a lot of cases a car driver thinking that travelling at 50 in the middle lane is okay. Believe me car drivers cause more issues on the motorway by a long way. I see it daily. If bad truck drivers were put on a ratio with bad car drivers you would be looking at something like 100 to 1. And thankfully that is the case or we would have a problem.

    Patience is the key. A truck may slow you up for a mile or so, but you’ll gain that back in a nano second when you’re by, but a truck can take 5 miles to get back to full speed.
     
    Last edited: Apr 22, 2019
  19. I like trucking
     
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  20. Here’s my issue. Many many years ago I had an old escort 55 non turbo van. On the flat it was okay, but on hills it was truly awful, it wouldn’t get above about 55mph on a decent hill. I knew this, so I stayed in lane one on hills. My speed dropped to 50-55mph, so I had to put up with it. I didn’t decide to move out into lane two or three and make everyone else put up with it as well. It wouldn’t matter if all the hgvs were doing thirty in the inside lane, the only people that would ******* off would be the lorry drivers, everyone else could go about their business.

    If a car driver decided to do 30mph in the outside lane in a 1.0lt Corsa because it suited them and cause a huge tailback then I reckon the old bill would nick them.
     

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