Truckie reckons his penalty was too harsh, what do you reckon?

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Originally Posted by bob10

Perhaps there should be an investigation on how he got his licence. How many more like him are out there, I wonder?

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Now there's a can of worms...

Licencing drivers in this country has long been a disgrace. ALL drivers, not just trucks.

Mod hat on.

Lets keep the "unnecessary and presumptuous" statements out of the discussion gents.

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Originally Posted by pop058

Mod hat on.

Lets keep the "unnecessary and presumptuous" statements out of the discussion gents.

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That would not leave many statements in the post.

God knows how many miles I have driven over the last nearly five decades on all sorts of roads Australia wide and by and large the truck drivers are by far the safest drivers/operators on the roads.
Even the "Grey Haired Nomads" who can at times be a real pain in the arse don't usually pull stupid stunts, However the foreign tourists in their hire cars or those "Wicked" type campervans can be problematic though.

The person that pulled this stunt in that sort of traffic has absolutely NO regard for anyone else on the road and he/she should be severely punished for this act, Maybe that will instil some respect for other road users and a slap on the wrist type judgment would only encourage more of the same type of behaviour.

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Originally Posted by pop058

Mod hat on.

Lets keep the "unnecessary and presumptuous" statements out of the discussion gents.

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Now thats a bit of a over kill [bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by ATH

My post was nothing to do with a trucks "rights" to be in the right hand lane, it was about their behaviour generally especially tailgating...... which ever lane they're in. I checked one not long ago who changed lanes 17 times over about 15 kays with not one indication and ended up 1 car in front of me at the exit lights. He sat as close as a couple of metres off the back of cars but where did he think they could go in fairly heavy traffic?
Don't give me any crap about their rights, a moron behind the wheel of any vehicle is a danger to all others and particularly so when driving a heavy vehicle.
AlanH.

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So all car drivers are perfect (NOT) & don't drive any different to the guy driving the truck. Yes it was stupid to drive that way.

pretty sure most truck drivers drive cars too.

pretty sure most car drivers dont drive trucks.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

pretty sure most truck drivers drive cars too.

pretty sure most car drivers dont drive trucks.

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Yep. Cars are what we use to get to the trucks.

And I would say that most truck drivers don't drive like that either.

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Originally Posted by pop058

Mod hat on.

Lets keep the "unnecessary and presumptuous" statements out of the discussion gents.

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Question with out notice: what was it that prompted the "mod" thing? Seemed like a reasonable discussion from where I'm sitting. Could be wrong, of course.

really? today at 1pm near Beenliegh on the M1 there were 8 trucks , 4 being b-doubles spread over the 4 lanes over a distance of about 400 mtrs.

it was causing serious chaos with traffic and the drivers I'm sure were enjoying it.

I called them up nicely on the cb and suggested that they slide into the two left lanes and allow the traffic to flow through....I got promptly told to get ****ed.

Its interesting that there were no police around and they would known that.