The “Random crap that crosses your path and leaves you baffled” Thread!

You, of course realise, as I do, that people with no experience of something often talk about how easy with it is whilst being full of ignorance. Let them be, they know no better.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Give me truckers any day on the road than all the idiot motorists.
I've never had a problem with a trucker in 43 years of driving but motorists are daily.
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SGF, you have warmed the cockles of the the heart of this ‘ancien camionneur.’
Joyeux Noël :)
 
Jean-F said:
Nice bit of generalising there, the vast majority of those “thick” truckers can operate a six forward gear shift lever, with a ‘splitter’, making it effectively 12 forward gears, how do you think you’d do?
Let’s say that you’re approaching a roundabout, in sixth ‘high’, effectively twelfth, doing 60-65 mph.
As you slow down to maybe 28-30, and probably lower, and drive on, out of the roundabout, do you drop it down to sixth ‘low’, or fourth or fifth ‘low’?
And no, I’m not condoning tailgating, in any vehicle.
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The transmission computer does it for you these days, I can't think of a current (at least decent spec) 44 tonner that isn't automatic. ;)

SexyGreyFox said:
Give me truckers any day on the road than all the idiot motorists.
I've never had a problem with a trucker in 43 years of driving but motorists are daily.
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Thank you kind sir. :)

fatiain said:
I hate that road with a passion. Oxford - Abingdon is a hellish journey, thank **** I don't have to do it every day.
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Me too!

To be fair we (truckers) must be a bit thick given what we drive and the responsibility that goes with it, combined with the long and unsocial hours for a measily £10 (ballpark) per hour.

Heres a job proposition, you need to pass three license tests to get a Class 1 (C+E) artic license, then you need 35 hours of periodic training every 5 years to continue to hold said license, your expected to work long and unsocial hours, the general (motorist) public hate you, in any accident your automatically (as the professional driver) deemed to be at fault until its proven otherwise, you have to drive to an above average standard otherwise you'll kill someone or do a lot of damage.

Wage - £10 ish per hour.

Where do I sign? :p :D
 
Scania said:
The transmission computer does it for you these days, I can't think of a current (at least decent spec) 44 tonner that isn't automatic. ;)


Thank you kind sir. :)


Me too!

To be fair we (truckers) must be a bit thick given what we drive and the responsibility that goes with it, combined with the long and unsocial hours for a measily £10 (ballpark) per hour.

Heres a job proposition, you need to pass three license tests to get a Class 1 (C+E) artic license, then you need 35 hours of periodic training every 5 years to continue to hold said license, your expected to work long and unsocial hours, the general (motorist) public hate you, in any accident your automatically (as the professional driver) deemed to be at fault until its proven otherwise, you have to drive to an above average standard otherwise you'll kill someone or do a lot of damage.

Wage - £10 ish per hour.

Where do I sign? :p :D
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Transmission computer? 44 tonners all automatic?,
This is all a long way from the ERF artic tanker that was my last truck, in 1985, 4 speed with a splitter if my memory serves.
Even further from the Scammel artic that I drove in the early sixties, with a gate change, and old Fodens with ratchet handbrakes.
You kids don’t know you’re born nowadays!
 
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