Foreign Trucks

[pdw8]

Bit of a rant coming up here.

I have been driving between London and Edinburgh via Manchester a lot lateley and done some 4000 miles in the last 6 weeks. I have been unfortunate to come across a few accidents and it seems each time a foreign truck is involved. I have also witnessed quite a few on my normal commute between London and Sittingbourne in Kent.

Firstly, I was driving home early yesterday through some roadworks on the A2 which have the average speed camersa. I was in lane 1 doing around 55mph when a Belgian truck came up behind and pulled into lane 2. He approached cars doing 50ish and drove right up behind to try to speed them up. At this time he is along side me and suddenly starts to pulll over into my lane meaning I had to slam on the anchors so he overtook me fully.He then pulled int lane 1 and undetook the cars and must have been doing 65-70mph by now. I hope the cameras got him but do they or can they prosecute him for speeding?

Seecondly, in view of the high amount of accidents involving foreigh truck would it be feasable for ferries to bring over the loads and hand over to UK trucks at the ports here?

I know there are a few truckers who visit here so would be interested in their views.

 

[pdw8]

You do realise this is variously known as intimidation, tailgating, and perhaps most importantly of all, illegal? For good reason too, I might add.

I was supposed to type "He" at the beginning of that sentence. I also know he knew exactly what he was doing and was driving recklessly, probably late for his ferry or something. I have a lot of respect for trucks as my dad used to be a HGV mechanic and I went out on breakdowns with him as a kid.