Lorry drivers are rude and selfish
Lorry drivers, how rude and selfish can you be? When another very slightly faster lorry is overtaking you, why do you have to stay side by side at your cruising speed instead of just throttling back a bit and allowing your "competitor" to pass quickly?
You see this happening all the time on the motorway. You are driving to your destination minding your own business, then suddenly you hit a load of traffic, you look just ahead of this to see what the problem is and nine times out of ten there are two lorries side by side in some kind of snails race to the finish line.
The result is that the cars coming up on this obstacle have to filter by in single file on the outside late. If youre really unlucky and its only a two lane dual carriage way you can be stuck behind these two duelling HGVs for quite a few miles.
Two lorries create a rolling roadblock
Why are they so selfish? Im not sure who is to blame, be it the overtaking lorry that cant go fast enough, or the one on the inside that is just being a selfish pig by not letting the other one pass quickly. Yes I know we all need the goods that lorries transport every day, but Id rather not follow them up the motorway to their final destination!
This slow overtaking needs to stop as it causes bottle necks on our already choked road system. Two lorries attempting to overtake when neither of them has enough speed effectively creates a rolling roadblock. This seems like a very dangerous practice to me and should be made an offence, just like undertaking!
By: Technohippy
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Hold on we are not selfish we are just doing our job's it's people like yourself that cause tail back's and crash's you are in such a rush to get to where ever your going and don't see traffic slowing down in front of you so you apply your brakes hard and then the car following you does the same and so on just think about bad mouthing us as you are no different.
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Pissed off with people like you. - 5-Feb-12 22:02
Motorcycles are a hazard, and do act dangerously.
But they pass quickly, and are out of my hair quickly. This debate is about over taking truckers.
Again, an incident on the M1 yesterday.
Following another fat balding trucker, overtaking at 0.455mph faster than the truck on the inside.
Just coming up to where the M18 merges.
What a nightmare. This guy was adamant he was getting by, even though I had been following him ( it's not worth getting in lane 3 as they were all going the same speed anyway) for about 4 miles. eventually he yielded and got in behind, but very reluctantly! What a moron. Come on truckers, just stay on the inside, relax, smoke a few tabs, and get on with your dreary job. Let us real road users use the roads properly. I thank you.
But they pass quickly, and are out of my hair quickly. This debate is about over taking truckers.
Again, an incident on the M1 yesterday.
Following another fat balding trucker, overtaking at 0.455mph faster than the truck on the inside.
Just coming up to where the M18 merges.
What a nightmare. This guy was adamant he was getting by, even though I had been following him ( it's not worth getting in lane 3 as they were all going the same speed anyway) for about 4 miles. eventually he yielded and got in behind, but very reluctantly! What a moron. Come on truckers, just stay on the inside, relax, smoke a few tabs, and get on with your dreary job. Let us real road users use the roads properly. I thank you.
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Nothing to do with the ability of our police as you well know and you've thrown that in simply because you don't like them. I do agree that lorries that pull into the fast lane should be dealt with accordingly as it is against the law but if the police stopped everyone on the road that committed an offence then you'd need to recruit another 250,000 of them to cope. Lorries that pull out just as you are about to pass them and are within 6" of being level with their rear bumper. They cause you to brake sharp and risk an accident.
Overall the British roads are extremely safe in comparison with others across the world but there are some things which just leave you gobsmacked. Motorcycles are among the worst offenders. I use the A12 as part of my daily commute and I regularly see motorcycles squeezing between vehicles. What lane do they think they are in?
I did a road safety course many years ago and the tutor described your wing mirrors (something many motorists have no idea about how to use) as BOB and TOM. BOB being on the passenger side. It's easy to remember why. BOB is 'bloke on bike' TOM is 'tw*t on motorcycle'.
Overall the British roads are extremely safe in comparison with others across the world but there are some things which just leave you gobsmacked. Motorcycles are among the worst offenders. I use the A12 as part of my daily commute and I regularly see motorcycles squeezing between vehicles. What lane do they think they are in?
I did a road safety course many years ago and the tutor described your wing mirrors (something many motorists have no idea about how to use) as BOB and TOM. BOB being on the passenger side. It's easy to remember why. BOB is 'bloke on bike' TOM is 'tw*t on motorcycle'.
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After driving in Holland France Germany & Spain this year, a HGV with a negligible speed advantage trying to overtake a slower one, is another British disease, contagious due our motorway police being not fit for purpose.
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Shame this debate has gone cold.
With the Christmas period coming up, I've notice a lot more trucks getting in the way, as usual.
I wonder how many accidents will there be, caused by racing truckers when the ice arrives?
With the Christmas period coming up, I've notice a lot more trucks getting in the way, as usual.
I wonder how many accidents will there be, caused by racing truckers when the ice arrives?
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Professional car driver - 17-Nov-11 13:39
Well, it's your turn, sit behind me for 10 minutes whilst I overtake a tractor. Do you like it? No you don't, and I'm sure you will pap your horn and tailgate me for it. So you are saying I deserve a truck to smash into me because he wants to go faster? Well, I'm overtaking this tractor, it will take me 10 minutes but I'm going slightly faster. See how it feels now? MikeP, why don't you educate yourself and get out of your dead end job?
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Professional car driver - 2-Sep-11 14:18
"Professional car driver" I take it that's a sick joke of some kind. Your behaviour is not only unprofessional, it's also dangerous and illegal, not to mention unbelievably stupid and selfish. I hope there's a lorry somewhere with your name written on the front.
More applicable to yourself than anyone else.
"KNOBHEAD!!! Morons. inbred idiots. selfish prick"
More applicable to yourself than anyone else.
"KNOBHEAD!!! Morons. inbred idiots. selfish prick"
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The next time there is a tractor on a dual carriageway, and a truck is behind me, I'm gonna slow to 25.2 mph or whatever a tractor can do and see how the truck behind likes it.
I've found the best thing to do to annoy a trucker, is to overtake him, then slow right down up a steep hill. He will have to go through all his gears to keep moving, then you just drive off! HAHA HAVE THAT KNOBHEAD!!!
I've found the best thing to do to annoy a trucker, is to overtake him, then slow right down up a steep hill. He will have to go through all his gears to keep moving, then you just drive off! HAHA HAVE THAT KNOBHEAD!!!
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Professional car driver - 2-Sep-11 13:51
What I want to know is why the hell do caravans go so slow??? They can do 60 mph right so why let a truck overtake you? Morons.
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Professional car driver - 2-Sep-11 13:38
Who are the dicks that keep saying, " well we have limiters" and all this shit?
All Truck drivers are inbred idiots who do nothing but clog up our road network.
Bunch of selfish pricks the lot of yer.
All Truck drivers are inbred idiots who do nothing but clog up our road network.
Bunch of selfish pricks the lot of yer.
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Professional car driver - 2-Sep-11 13:34
Just thinking, if lorries stopped overtaking each other, then they would all queue up neatly in the inside lane and car could pass safely, doing the speed limit applicable.......how would the cars exit the motorway? all the lorries would be in the inside lane, blocking the exit slip road, cars would need to pull in-between the lorries some miles before they needed to exit, and judging by how many people cut up the lorries on exiting the motorway anyway (you see it all the time)
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Lorry drivers are rude and selfish? And who are you...look at it from our point of view pal, we have to put up with what I call ants ( cars) who havent got a clue,they're everywhere..never use inicators,overtake then cut you up,always in a rush,not happy at sticking to the speed limit..the hardest part of a truck drivers job is watching out for ants all day,we ain't happy driving up and down the motorway at 56 MPH...try sitting in our seat for a day and see what we have to put up with
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talk to your local MP or the idiots that invented the 56mph rule.
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Lorry drivers are like every other driver - there's good ones and bad ones. I (and hundreds of other drivers) was once stuck in a queue on a 2 lane stretch of the M74 while a lorry tried for 5 miles to get past another on a slight incline. The overtaking one probably shouldn't have tried it, but once he did, the one being overtaken should have backed off just a little. I used to tow a caravan and whenever a lorry started to overtake me, I would reduce my speed by about 10mph, until they got past - they always thanked me. There's no point in being a moron and preventing an overtaking manoevre, whether you're in a lorry or a car. I don't like the foreign lorries, you never know what they're going to do next, but I think the British ones are about the best.
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Speed limmiters blame them its not our fault if one truck is set at 56 and another at 55 it takes time to pass or we have to sit right behind the slower one not all lorry drivers are selfish pigs as you put it there are some good ones out there to also what about the cars that sit at 55 it takes ages for as to get past then they speed up what can we do just like everyone else we are only trying to earn a living .
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Absolutely right! I travel along the M56 to work and this type of driving infuriates me. I've thought of installing a video camera in my car and naming and shaming the offenders. They are responsible for traffic build up when it is not neccessary. Why the police don't pull them over is beyond me.
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My word MikeP & Mike. I am eternally grateful to you both for pointing out my lack of intellect & minimul experience, I am sure Eddie Stobart drivers will also benefit from your depth of experience all be it posted from up there on cloud nine.
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Mike : I think when Boblet made his 'clairvoyant' remark I suspect he was aiming that at me, for attempting to diagnose his problem of urinary incontinence remotely. However, like you, it's all down to experience, something he fails to appreciate.
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"Mike" thank you for pointing out my lack of intellect I hadn't realised how far under a stimulating wagon driver I am. I promise to try harder.
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Its quite simple if you look below the posts mine will say "mike" whereas the other person is "MikeP". In hindsight I wish I had looked at the names of people posting before using my name to avoid this confusion but I suppose it shows your lack of intellect if you are struggling to see which post is by whom.
Anyway enough about names, this gripe has gone way off topic!
I would hardly say assessing drivers makes me a clairvoyant, its just experience on the road I think you will find!
Anyway enough about names, this gripe has gone way off topic!
I would hardly say assessing drivers makes me a clairvoyant, its just experience on the road I think you will find!
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