Thread: Outback Truckers - Better than Ice Road Truckers!

Like a few others here I can see both sides of the story. Like the old bumper sticker said "Ban low performance drivers not high performance cars".
Can anyone really offer advice to (paraphrased) "just get out of my way " and expect to be taken seriously?? Equally, people who impinge of truck breaking distances or drive below the speed limit without taking every opportunity to let people get past are equally ridiculed.
Neither group understands the "rights and responsibility" balance. That is, society gives one the right to do things like drive a vehicle. As a driver you have a responsibility to your fellow man (society) to allow them to pursue their life unimpeded. That means ME, YOU and EVERYONE whether they are a drop-kick or not.
We need to educmacate people as to the responsible way to drive rather than just the legal way.
I was behind a fresh (first time off their property) L plater (neighbour and friend I even got a wave) the other day. They were doing 60 in a 100 zone in a rural area. I wasn't worried until we came to a intersection where they could have pulled over and me past (which they didn't). I then overtook safety soon after but had to speed as we were now in an 80kph section. I met them at a function soon after and the supervising driver said "you were speeding when you went past us". I bit my tongue.
I feel for truckies, especially driving the the eternal roadworks in the Blue Mountains. I always make sure to make a hole for them at merging lanes.
Here endeth the lesson.

I reckon that one gauge our driving skills is the number of "thank you" waves we get.

As for Outback Truckers
More enjoyable than most shows of that ilk(perhaps because of the accents). As one might expect I do take issue with shows portraying lawbreaking/life-threatening actions as OK and/or normal. Rail-crossing incident is a case in point.

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

If I was tailgated by a truck at 110 I would get his rego and report him.

I hear so many stories about trucks going faster than 100 kph yet I have rarely seen it. I have driven semi's from Shepparton to Sydney and on some occasions there are nearly wall to wall trucks going up the Hume.

The ones I have driven have all been 100 speed limited. Now if one of these "wall to Wall" trucks was doing 110 he would be flying past me.

Some times when the road is quiet I might see a truck about 5 kays back. He does eventually catch me, but it has taken him about 80 km to do it.

His limiter could be say, 103 and mine at 99. Now I am not saying that there aren't trucks out there that have fiddled with the limiter, but these are few and far between.

It is almost a jaillable offence these days.

One problem is that most speedos on newer cars read fast, and often when you think a truck is speeding, it isn't.

I can 100% tell you that there are a large number of trucks going faster than 100 on the hume... I drive it daily and I often have trucks up my clacker at 110 and that is 110 gps not 110 speedo.

I can also say they are also a number of trucks that are 100 they tend to have speed offs up the hills on the 2 lane highway creating such a tail back givens me the ****ing ****s I can tell yeah