10 miles in 10 hours... At 60mph that's, oh, let's see, 10 MiNUTES!!! In the meatime the rest of us have had 10 minutes added to a 20 minute journey. Thanks, guys, your self-interest is obvious!

If the professional truckers had got their collective act together on this issue 10 years ago and done something about the selfish driving that leads to 10-mile overtaking manouvres (I challenge any of them on this thread to explain why that isn't a selfish manouvre) they wouldn't be getting this backlash from the professional car drivers now! You made your bed, sleep in it!

 

Good. Fed up with sitting behind truck drivers over taking another at 0.00034 mph+

 

thats easy to sort out m8 set off 10 minutes earler

 

sorry, but thats illegal? lol

 

wot makes you a professional driver?? how many tests have your taken?? how many test do you take per year??

driving test
advanced driver
rac approved driver
HGV CLASS 1 driver 160.000kms per yer + car
2 tests per year for the rac
you ever driver in morroco with a right had side wagon or car


just think how much money we are saving you when your stuck behind us doing 56mph,instead of your 70+mph.

just look around your house and tell me wot hasnt been on the back of a wagon and then tell me you dont need us i bet you cannt even find 5 things

and if you are ever stuck behind me and flash i will toss it off over taking and if you dont back off when my indictor is on i will pull out end of

 

tell us again how good a driver you are

no offence thats not the sort of comment you want to be coming out with in the debate really!

jamo

 

Ah, the cowboy truck driver shows his colours! So, you happily cut up the car drivers? You happily hold up other road users? You happily cause other drivers to take avoiding action? That's how I read your posting.

What happened to all the skills you're supposed to have? (I exclude spelling, grammar and punctuation from the list, of course.) If you're getting flashed in anger (as opposed to in courtesy) it's probably because you're not considering the other road users. If you're getting it in anger often, you shouldn't be on the road.

For reference, I've so far passed 5 driving tests, of various levels up to and including LGV C+E, both sides of the Atlantic.

What makes me a professional driver is I do it for a living. Your goods wouldn't even get out of the loading dock without me. But I don't think that gives me ownership of the road. That's something else that makes us different.

 

"HTF do you presume to know whether I'm a new user or not. It just shows you up to be a condescending ***."

A little tip for you when you've finished your self righteous rant - I'm not a new user, I just couldn't log on as my old username so had to start again. If you don't want it to get personal, then don't overreact and fling personal insults about yourself. You're full of advice but you just can't take it yourself.

 

Girls, girls, GIRLS! I didn't start this post for you two to fight incessantly in it. Sod off elsewhere and have your fight, please!

As a courtesy and an encouragement, I've created this new thread for you to continue your scrap in:

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=385280

 

no its called driving to fast in there wot they think are fast cars

 

bloody good driver, just ask any one thats seen me go off the line at the scooby shoot out or pod

 

Did you actually mean to say: "No, it's called 'driving too fast' in their, what they think are fast, cars! "?

A few questions:

1) Are you trying to enforce the law? If so, are you a police officer?
2) Does their speeding give you the right to a dangerous manoeuvre (forcing them to take avoiding action)?
3) This is a performance car enthusiasts forum. What are you doing here?

 

Do you remember the bit, when you did your advanced training, about road skills and race skills being totally different? I contend that your race skills are immaterial, while your road skills are immature.

 

who gives a ****e about that, with so bad a grammer and spelling,ive done well,no morgage(house paid for)22B in the garage,polo 19tdi (110) out side,8 yrs in the army, 3 sons + lots more good going i think to say iam **** at spelling, grammar and punctuation

forgot to add a mere wagon driver

 

pmsl its you that moaning about being 10 minutes late ffs not me

 

see above

and see scooby mag when it comes out on wednesday front cover mr 270 posts

 

iam taking the pi55

 

You missed my point - although I can't be sure if that was deliberate or due to stupidity. For the sake of clarity, it was that crap driving by truckers adds 50% to many people's journeys, while having to slow down 1mph would only add 2% to theirs (ignoring the fact they will have less congestion to deal with, too).

I think you've confirmed my thoughts on your driving. Offer us all a description of your truck would you, so that we know what to look out for? For our own safety, of course...

 

lar lar lar no reply slow pc or something??

 

Anyone got anything intelligent and mature to add to this thread? ;O

 

congestion!! heres 1 for you go work out how many cars there are to wagons then tell me its wagons causing it

ive sorted me spelling out i just copy and paste yours

 

slow down your post counts going up

 

brb going for a cig

 

so if you have c+e you should now wot its like on the roads or have you never driven a wagon at 44tonne??

wot are your tests this yr

flt
reach truck
c+e
car (from the sound of things)
rc car

 

just remind me the next time you have a problem


http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...67#post3910967

 

sum trucker tried to pull out on me

moments later he nearly crashed his truck pretty bad
gutted for him

 

You must drive on different roads to me. The biggest cause of delays are car drivers who stay in lane 3 and do not move over to let faster traffic through when they have completed their overtaking manouver and those that have a mind set and automatically stay in lane two, regardless of their speed. This effectively reduces a 3 lane motorway to 2 lanes for anybody travelling faster than them.
I am sure there are car drivers that sit in lane 2 and are totally ignorant of the fact that HGVs are restricted to lanes 1 and 2 and limitted to 56mph.

 

I think the law of trucks not overtaking needs some leeway and should perhaps only be applied to the busy roads in the country or at busy times sensibly by Traffic Police. If we were truckers it would be ridiculous to have to follow a truck doing 40mph when you could do a lot more at 3 in the morning with no other traffic about cause the law says so.

Think these rules should just be for rush hour and use digital signs to inform truckers whether they are in force for that road at that time.

I would hate the left lane to be a massive slow moving queue of trucks following one slow vehicle. How would you join and exit the motorway. That is where most motorway Queues form and spread from slow exits and entrances to motorways.

 

[QUOTE=harvey]You must drive on different roads to me.QUOTE]

Nope I'm looking forward to the day they get targeted too

 

Errr... Did you read the BBC News article???? I've got a feeling possibly not