Thread: Truck Driver Tailgating?,...in the "Nanny State"..Yeah right.

Originally Posted by trout1105

I suppose the right hand lane was blocked as well

Have you actually looked at the footage - or just commenting on hearsay.

I don't think anyone commented that the truck driver didn't do the wrong thing.. both tailgating and using the right lane.
But the middle man could have easily averted an aggro maniac getting more aggro and doing what he did.

Now the aggro truckie is going to pay for not keeping his cool, so 'another one bites the dust' as they say.
He'll probably lose his job(at least as a driver) if his employer has any self respect too.

Doesn't mean that someone can't sympathise with the truck driver tho.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Well no there was also another car in the far left lane just ahead as well.

With the exception of Mick - you lot need to accept that the bad guy is the truck driver - everyone else is abiding by the law and doing what they should - except the truck driver - tailgating, intimidation - and the cops agree and are looking for the truck driver not the car driver.

And Fatso .

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

You have a straight answer. Just not the one you wanted.
Oh, I've noticed you have avoided answering my question.

I have never beaten my Wife, Happy?

Originally Posted by trout1105

Are you a politician by any chance because it is extremely difficult to get a straight answer from you here?

Lol!!
Nothing unusual about that,...go back through this thread and you will see that there are a few, and particularly one, who fall into that category.
Like the car driver, right or wrong, they feel it is their "right" to be that way,.....fair enough, but it ain't mine!!
Pickles.

There are bad truck drivers but far more bad an inconsiderate car drivers. For the last few days I've been helping out a mate and AULRO member by driving his 13 tonne curtainsider pantech. Yesterday in the M5East tunnel I'm in lane 2 as an onramp merges from left. Traffic stopped as it moves ahead a space opens in front of me as the truck is changing up through the gears then two cars jump into my braking space. There was only room for 1 at the same moment the 2nd came into view below my windscree he hit the LH corner of the bullbar. I had no ability to stop something like 14 tonne of truck and load. Then he continued through the tunnel and multiple streets before Iost him.
Now tell me that truck drivers are at fault! You'll get no agreement frkmm me.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

There are bad truck drivers but far more bad an inconsiderate car drivers. For the last few days I've been helping out a mate and AULRO member by driving his 13 tonne curtainsider pantech. Yesterday in the M5East tunnel I'm in lane 2 as an onramp merges from left. Traffic stopped as it moves ahead a space opens in front of me as the truck is changing up through the gears then two cars jump into my braking space. There was only room for 1 at the same moment the 2nd came into view below my windscree he hit the LH corner of the bullbar. I had no ability to stop something like 14 tonne of truck and load. Then he continued through the tunnel and multiple streets before Iost him.
Now tell me that truck drivers are at fault! You'll get no agreement frkmm me.

No disagreement from me.
I've never driven a truck, never owned one, never had any connection with one.
However, I love driving, done lots of it, "I've been ön the road", for a very long time, probably longer than most, and I tell you what, I believe the quality of car driving has decreased a guzillion percent sinse I got my license, whereas, "ïn my day", there were LOTS of "rogue truckies",.....they are now virtually gone,.....I see plenty more bad car drivers than I've ever seen, but "truckies",...virtually never see any bad behaviour.
Pickles.

I have given this a bit of thought , having watched the behaviour of drivers on the gateway between toombul rd and mt Gravatt road , of which I traverse three round trips per working day. Sure there are idiots in trucks cars and motorbikes. But only L and P drivers seem to get the attention. So as there have been calls for different plates for visitors , oldies and caravans , why not one for every driver. Rounded to the closest five years , it could display their experience. Not displaying the plate gives the cops a reason to pull them over to check credentials. And web reports can tell us about the "x" number plate who did something stupid.