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  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    milko9000 wrote:
    I'm not saying it's not annoying, it pisses me off being stuck around them. Just that purely selfishly for them, it makes sense.
    Aye, I know. I used to date a girl who was once britain's youngest female HGV driver. Never did find out what a female HGV was though.

    If you think it's annoying on motorways, you should see it on dual carriegways :lol:
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  • welshkev
    welshkev Posts: 9,690
    Sesquepidilian wrote:
    I find HGV and Bus drivers are much more likely to appreciate my getting out of their way.


    yeah this biker didn't get out of the way quick enough (yes dredging up old story :lol: )

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  • diy
    diy Posts: 6,473
    bails87 wrote:
    diy wrote:
    I've always found HGVs to be pretty courteous, particularly given the number of dick head cyclists who try to pass them on the inside when they are making turns.

    To the OP.

    Nothing stops you making a complaint to the police about the drive of said Mercedes wagon. They may have other complaints and will usually follow up with a letter to the RK saying they have had an allegation of driving without due care.
    :lol:

    I went to the police with video footage of a driver hitting me (changed lanes without looking or signalling) and was told that the driver had done nothing wrong because I wasn't injured!

    Any chance of a link to the footage + how long ago was it?
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    It was probably about 4 months ago, and I'm pretty sure I got rid of the footage seeing as the police weren't interested.
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  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    milko9000 wrote:
    The same journey at an average speed of 53mph means you would have to stop and rest when you were 20minutes from your destination.
    harsh!
  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    cooldad wrote:
    Absolutely right, every HGV driver is a dickhead and every cyclist is awesome.

    I'm a HGV driver and a cyclist. Does that make me an awesome-dickhead?
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Tonymufc wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    Absolutely right, every HGV driver is a dickhead and every cyclist is awesome.

    I'm a HGV driver and a cyclist. Does that make me an awesome-dickhead?
    Nope, Manchester is the exception. Just a dickhead. And the bike's probably stolen.
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  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    cooldad wrote:
    Tonymufc wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    Absolutely right, every HGV driver is a dickhead and every cyclist is awesome.

    I'm a HGV driver and a cyclist. Does that make me an awesome-dickhead?
    Nope, Manchester is the exception. Just a dickhead. And the bike's probably stolen.
    :lol: I liked that one.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Could be worse, you could be a Chelsea supporter.
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  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    I've said this before but, the HGV driver who drives his truck like a d1ck, will also drive his car, ride his bike and will generally be a d1ck. I do 4x11.5hrs days and the amount of bad driving and CYCLING I witness would probably make you reassess your opinion with regards to the level of competence of both cyclists and drivers. Education of both parties is long overdue!
  • Briggo
    Briggo Posts: 3,537
    Tonymufc wrote:
    I've said this before but, the HGV driver who drives his truck like a d1ck, will also drive his car, ride his bike and will generally be a d1ck. I do 4x11.5hrs days and the amount of bad driving and CYCLING I witness would probably make you reassess your opinion with regards to the level of competence of both cyclists and drivers. Education of both parties is long overdue!

    You aint kidding, today I saw a couple of women on a single bicycle (one standing one sitting), 1 aged 30, the other early 20s laughing away as they rode the wrong way through a set of major cross road traffic lights, through the red lights (not that they could see due to going the wrong way through the junction) across the flowing traffic and out the otherside forcing cars to stop abruptly...

    The mind freakin boggles as to what they were thinking.
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Well, I got in touch with Londis' customer service department, and got a nice reply from the head of their transport department who said that he's also a keen cyclist (and therefore automatically awesome).

    After a pleasant introduction in which words like "horrified" and "disgraceful" appeared in all the right places, he said,
    Please be assured that we take driver standards very seriously with ongoing training and systems that monitor the driver’s use of his vehicle and as you state these drivers are out in the public and are the face of the company and this type of driver standards gives us a bad name
    . . . which also led me to wonder what the systems are - CCTV? GPS tracking?

    Anyway - they've apologized nicely, so that's that
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Most of the decent trucking cos have very sophisticated GPS based systems that can track the truck, the speed, revs etc etc. Basically they can tell exactly what a truck was doing, when and where.
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  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    cooldad wrote:
    Most of the decent trucking cos have very sophisticated GPS based systems that can track the truck, the speed, revs etc etc. Basically they can tell exactly what a truck was doing, when and where.
    It's true. That's how my neighbour found out his truck was cheating on him with a taxi cab.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    YeehaaMcgee wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    Most of the decent trucking cos have very sophisticated GPS based systems that can track the truck, the speed, revs etc etc. Basically they can tell exactly what a truck was doing, when and where.
    It's true. That's how my neighbour found out his truck was cheating on him with a taxi cab.
    Sounds like the sequel to Cars. That little blue Porsche was hot.
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  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    cooldad wrote:
    Most of the decent trucking cos have very sophisticated GPS based systems that can track the truck, the speed, revs etc etc. Basically they can tell exactly what a truck was doing, when and where.

    I'm not a decent trucker because my truck is tracked. I'm a decent trucker because I'm professional.
  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    Tonymufc wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    Most of the decent trucking cos have very sophisticated GPS based systems that can track the truck, the speed, revs etc etc. Basically they can tell exactly what a truck was doing, when and where.

    I'm not a decent trucker because my truck is tracked. I'm a decent trucker because I'm professional.
    It does appear however, that you have the stereotypical trucker intelligence.
    He never suggested that tracking makes truckers decent. He simply said that most decent trucking companies use tracking.

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  • Chunkers1980
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  • Majski
    Majski Posts: 443
    YeehaaMcgee wrote:
    Tonymufc wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    Most of the decent trucking cos have very sophisticated GPS based systems that can track the truck, the speed, revs etc etc. Basically they can tell exactly what a truck was doing, when and where.

    I'm not a decent trucker because my truck is tracked. I'm a decent trucker because I'm professional.
    It does appear however, that you have the stereotypical trucker intelligence.
    He never suggested that tracking makes truckers decent. He simply said that most decent trucking companies use tracking.

    It's like, every cat is an animal, but not every animal is a cat.

    It doesn't come accross like that at all, he was merely pointing out that a 'professional' trucker would drive safely anyway. But as usual you're being a total keyboard warrior and being unnecessarily rude to people.
  • EH_Rob
    EH_Rob Posts: 1,134
    As far as I can see the original statement didn't even make sense, so I don't really see how you can judge someone's intelligence on their response to it.

    Then again with comments like that you're obviously extremely bright, so what do I know?
    YeehaaMcgee wrote:
    Tonymufc wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    Most of the decent trucking cos have very sophisticated GPS based systems that can track the truck, the speed, revs etc etc. Basically they can tell exactly what a truck was doing, when and where.

    I'm not a decent trucker because my truck is tracked. I'm a decent trucker because I'm professional.
    It does appear however, that you have the stereotypical trucker intelligence.
    He never suggested that tracking makes truckers decent. He simply said that most decent trucking companies use tracking.

    It's like, every cat is an animal, but not every animal is a cat.
  • mrmonkfinger
    mrmonkfinger Posts: 1,452
    Briggo wrote:
    The mind freakin boggles as to what they were thinking.

    You assume they were thinking?

    Very generous of you.
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  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    Majski wrote:
    nonsense
    EH_Rob wrote:
    more nonsense
    Sigh. it was a tongue in cheek comment.
    Maybe you should take that stick from up your arris and lighten up a little :roll:
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    I think he's just an indecent trucker and drives naked. Really.
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  • EH_Rob
    EH_Rob Posts: 1,134
    My mistake Yeehaa. For some reason I presumed you were being a twerp and dishing out some pointless drivel to someone who didn't ask for or deserve it.

    Can't think why, how silly of me.
  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    EH_Rob wrote:
    E_Rob, for some reason I presumed you were being a twerp and dishing out some pointless drivel to someone who didn't ask for or deserve it.

    Can't think why, how silly of me.
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  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    cooldad wrote:
    I think he's just an indecent trucker and drives naked. Really.

    Ah you've obviously been looking into my cab as I've been driving past haven't you! Naked driving. It's the future. :D
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    And gives you something to play with on long boring trips.
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