Have you been living under a rock for the past 30 years.
I have heard of the film but i have never watched.
Scumbag lorry drivers!
- Thread starter rubberduck
- Start date
I have heard of the film but i have never watched.
- Joined
- 30 Jul 2006
- Posts
- 12,130
Amazon delivery driver?
Typically no unless it's something abnormal like a crane. A lot of supermarkets and large fleet operators (Eddie Stobart, Maritime, Wincanton etc.) will set their trucks limiters to be lower than the legal maximum though as they believe it saves fuel costs, also little things such as tyre tread depths can have a slight difference to how they are reading the road speed to the tacho head.
The truck I drive is pretty quick up at the top end and it's rare I'll actually be overtaken by another lorry, funnily enough most of the time I spend overtaking is passing dribblers doing 52-55 in cars on 70mph NSL roads.
Hgv drivers are scumbags but you have another post asking if its ok to form a relationship by stalking/ heavy breathing phone calls.
Now we know why you were in a rush to get past the lorry, the cops were hot on your bumper..
haha this is a weird one
Soldato
- Joined
- 2 Apr 2006
- Posts
- 3,746
It's just the odd individuals who are stupid, like those who overtake on the 2 lane uphill stretch of the M65 near Blackburn. 
Soldato
- Joined
- 1 May 2013
- Posts
- 10,023
- Location
- M28
but then you are entering 'duel' territory.
Why do we overtake?
Same as anybody else, to maintain progress.
Unlike car drivers we (Scumbag HGV drivers) are limited to how many hours we can drive in a day by law and usually have nigh impossible delivery schedules to adhere to.
Many companies will refuse a load if it’s late or make the driver wait hours for being so which messes up your follow up work, an overtake at .5 mph faster than the truck in front can be frustrating for those following behind but on a motorway at least, you do have the option of the outside lane where trucks are not allowed to go.
I usually lift off a tad to let the overtaking vehicle pass quicker if he’s edging past slowly, many don’t, I know.
I have a top tip for the OP, rather than having to slam on when a truck pulls out, do what we do every day when around cars, anticipate what they may or may not do chill out and drive defensively.
It’s not a race track, HGV’s have just as much of a right to be on the road as you do.
If I let every stupid action by another driver in whatever vehicle stress me out I’d be in a box by now!
As for giving an hgv driver a kick in the nuts for pulling out on you, try it by all means and please post what happened next from your hospital bed.
Apologies for the late reply, overtaking at 0.01mph faster than the other guy takes ages....
Same as anybody else, to maintain progress.
Unlike car drivers we (Scumbag HGV drivers) are limited to how many hours we can drive in a day by law and usually have nigh impossible delivery schedules to adhere to.
Many companies will refuse a load if it’s late or make the driver wait hours for being so which messes up your follow up work, an overtake at .5 mph faster than the truck in front can be frustrating for those following behind but on a motorway at least, you do have the option of the outside lane where trucks are not allowed to go.
I usually lift off a tad to let the overtaking vehicle pass quicker if he’s edging past slowly, many don’t, I know.
I have a top tip for the OP, rather than having to slam on when a truck pulls out, do what we do every day when around cars, anticipate what they may or may not do chill out and drive defensively.
It’s not a race track, HGV’s have just as much of a right to be on the road as you do.
If I let every stupid action by another driver in whatever vehicle stress me out I’d be in a box by now!
As for giving an hgv driver a kick in the nuts for pulling out on you, try it by all means and please post what happened next from your hospital bed.
Apologies for the late reply, overtaking at 0.01mph faster than the other guy takes ages....
Whilst I fully accept that HGVs will perform overtakes, what frustrates me the most is those drivers who badly judge an overtake.
They attempt the overtake and then realise the truck can't go fast enough to complete the overtake and just stay stuck in the middle lane, rather than abandoning the overtake and dropping back behind.
This seems to happen more often than not during rush hour, and contributes to so many holdups that slow the entire motorway network down.
Quite agree there, it frustrates me too!
I know as a professional driver that when pulling a lot of weight an overtake on a hill / incline isn’t going to work so I’ll drop back and wait, many don’t and it does seem to be increasing in regularity of it happening.
Perhaps this is down to the large number of Eastern European drivers we have over here these days (many in my experience have very poor road craft equally though others are excellent) - I don’t know.
Soldato
- Joined
- 22 Jul 2014
- Posts
- 3,929
- Location
- Oxon
I don't mind so much on motorways as I'm usually in the outside lane anyway, but the A34 is a nightmare for this.
Imagine the pain up here in Scotland where the majority of motorways are dual lane, not triple lane! One truck can back up traffic for miles by pulling out! AFAIK our only three lane motorway is the M74 running from Glasgow to England. It's not even the busiest by a long shot.
There's bad drivers everywhere on the road. What they're driving makes no difference. I, like Scania, often trundle along at 52-53 which lets other hgvs pass easily. That doesn't stop people trying to pass you going uphill or round left hand bends, where they have to travel a longer distance than you, making it take longer. Let's not pretend that any type of vehicle is ever driven perfectly or has a more important journey than any other. If they did, they'd be fitted with blue flashing lights. You can't fix other people but you can work on changing your attitude. #whitehighhorse
As for giving an hgv driver a kick in the nuts for pulling out on you, try it by all means and please post what happened next from your hospital bed.
Oddly the ones that call you a ****** once you've pulled back in never seem to want to discuss it when you catch them up in traffic further up the road
Except that this is a falicy.
I am not a fast driver,
a) Cos I grew out of my Boy Racer stage decades ago
b) In the landcruiser the difference between 55 and 70 is the diference between 22MPG and 37 (Yes really, 37 on a long run)
c) After many years of anecdotal experiance, yuou really dont get there much quicker. I will typically arrive at Mrs Garmins predicted time +/- a couple of minutes. Driving like a hoon might shave 5-10 off that, but rarely more than that.
Now, My motorway stratagy is to pick a lightly loaded truck and maintain station about 4 seconds behind it and chill.
Occasionally I get trucks that pass going faster than my pacemaker and we get the dueling banjos thing where they take miles and minutes to pass.
Making Progress! In your dreams!
20 miles later when we all hit the heavy traffic/roadworks there he is, in the same traffic jam, 2-3 vehicles ahead.
The "Making Progress" argument is ********, really it is!
Soldato
- Joined
- 22 Jul 2014
- Posts
- 3,929
- Location
- Oxon
Let's not pretend that any type of vehicle is ever driven perfectly or has a more important journey than any other. If they did, they'd be fitted with blue flashing lights. You can't fix other people but you can work on changing your attitude. #whitehighhorse
I don't think that's a valid argument when we have different speed limits for different categories of vehicles though. A HGV pulling out on a dual carriageway road to overtake another HGV going a few miles an hour slower just causes unnecassary congestion for vehicles in the other categories. We're not talking about HGVs overtaking others which are doing 40mph instead of 60mph.
Like I said, that mostly only applies to roads with 2 lanes though.