collease Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Is it just me or are there a lot more things and people on the road today that seem to want to kill you if your not carfull. For example just this morning on my way to ipswich A140 twice i had lorries just pull out on me as i was almost halfway down the trailer. Now i could see the driving it in their mirrors so they dam well could see me. What is it with the roads now that people and obsticles just want to see you dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayerbloke Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 If there was any other reasonable way of getting to Ipswich from here, I`d say use that... I hate the A140. And no, it`s not just you who thinks that way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collease Posted August 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 another example is thoughs horrid camara signs now for thoughs who know the roads they drive well thaey are not a problem but for thoughs idiots that are crusing along at an ok speed suddenly see this sign and brake like there is an accident infront of them WHY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 The only way to drive and keep sane is to automatically assume that everyone anywhere near you is about to do something feckin stupid at any moment. Then you're ready for it. ... Or am I just paranoid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collease Posted August 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 not paranoid and very sensible if you ask me. Was very tempted on the second truck insident to just carry on driving and pray he would have stopped instead i did the sane thing and dropped back swearing to myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beez Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 [ QUOTE ] The only way to drive and keep sane is to automatically assume that everyone anywhere near you is about to do something feckin stupid at any moment. Then you're ready for it. ... Or am I just paranoid? [/ QUOTE ] That's actually how I was taught to think while learning to drive. And when I was doing my Pass Plus he said 'remember when I told you never to trust anyone when you're driving?' and I said 'uh-huh' Then he says 'well on the motorway you need to think everyone's a moron and be prepared for anything. Especially when you're close to these big fellas' then pointed at a lorry. They're arses. They always over take me when I'm going 50 through road works (cos that's the speed limit) and not realise that I'm going to be over taking them again in a couple of minutes at 80 once we're out of the 50 zone. What's the point? What's 2 or 3 miles of 10mph less going to lose them? About 10 or 15 minutes maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyPence Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 maybe it has something to do with what you are driving aswell, a lorry driver is bound to pick on a BMW driver but he might just leave little maureen in her honda acty well alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyp Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 [ QUOTE ] They're arses. [/ QUOTE ] You try getting in a truck with a 40FT trailor on the back and you will soon see who the arses are and it isn't the driver of the lorry. Lorry drivers are highly skilled drivers who IMO are the better drivers on the road as they have the ability to see everything and i mean everything!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SneakyMcC Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 [ QUOTE ] You try getting in a truck with a 40FT trailer on the back and you will soon see who the arses are and it isn't the driver of the lorry. [/ QUOTE ] Good point, other road users do not give them what they need on the road. The same folk do not give any other road users what is required either. [ QUOTE ] Lorry drivers are highly skilled drivers who IMO are the better drivers on the road as they have the ability to see everything and i mean everything!! [/ QUOTE ] The problem is, we remember only the highly skilled lorry drivers that drive like complete and utter twatts, risking others needlessly! Cutting us up, tail gating and forcing others to drive outside their ability! Y'know, exactly the same stuff that the rest of us highly skilled drivers do. The obvious deference being that our vehicles dont get so easily out of control, dont take 2 counties to stop or drive straight through other vehicles in quite the same way in a collision. Oh, thats IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterb Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 [ QUOTE ] They always over take me when I'm going 50 through road works (cos that's the speed limit) and not realise that I'm going to be over taking them again in a couple of minutes at 80 once we're out of the 50 zone. [/ QUOTE ] ... best thing is when they're almost past you at the end of the roadworks - just flooring it in the RS leaves them way behind! This does seem to upset them, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 There will always be a few truck drivers who do dangerous things (like texting while they're in charge of 38 tonnes doing 60mph! ), but on the whole people who get in trouble with trucks on the road do so because they simply don't appreciate the room a truck needs or the limits of the driver's visibility. (Oh and the reason they pass you at the roadworks is because they're still sat on their 56mph limiter cos they know the cameras are set higher than that... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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