Grumpy old buggers thread

[Fatso]

And people pulling caravans with Austin A60's, Standard Vanguards, Ford Consuls, and sideplate Holdens were not slow and underpowered?

Your quite right !! , but the slow under-powered trucks held up my 1959 Ford Customline & Caravan .

Are well it is what it is , no doubt the road warriors of today will be the Bicky Dippers of tomorrow . .

[Tombie]

Not this little black duck
My later years are planned to be spent in Thailand.
No need to go slow over there

[Bigbjorn]

Your quite right !! , but the slow under-powered trucks held up my 1959 Ford Customline & Caravan .

Are well it is what it is , no doubt the road warriors of today will be the Bicky Dippers of tomorrow . .

1959 was the Fairlane 500 & 300 & Ranch Wagon. OHV Customline was 1955-58. A Customline with Y-block was 162 SAE Gross horsepower. About 120-130 on the scale used today. Hardly a ball of fire but very good at using fuel.

[Fatso]

1959 was the Fairlane 500 & 300 & Ranch Wagon. OHV Customline was 1955-58. A Customline with Y-block was 162 SAE Gross horsepower. About 120-130 on the scale used today. Hardly a ball of fire but very good at using fuel.

Australian Ford Customline production/asembly ended in September 1959 with the introduction of the Fairlane 500 , custom 300 and ranchwagon in September 1959.

Mine was a 1959 Ford Customline Star of the year .

[4bee]

Not sure if I'll reach a tipping point age wise

The only way you'll reach a tipping point is if you go arse over while putting your slippers on while going for a leak in the morning.

[V8Ian]

The speed limit is a maximum, it's not compulsory. The 'bickie dippers' are just being responsible motorists, minimising their emissions and driving safely.
Also, my box doesn't wobble.

When I go down the Pacific Highway, the trucks are madly trying to pass each other, not the 'bickie dippers'. It's like Roller Derby.
Will be great when Ballina to Grafton is finished and the motorway puts an end to this argy bargy.
Meanwhile I let them past and then tuck in behind, so they get the speeding tickets, not me.

I remember back in the day when the Pacific Highway was a poorly policed one lane goat track and locals referred to certain interstate truckies (as they were called back then) as 'struckies' because of their habit of punting motorists off into the shrubbery.
Some drivers were notorious for popping pills to stay awake because they thought that was the only way they could meet the unrealistic deadlines set by certain transport companies. Arrive late and your work dried up.
Local blokes so desperate for work they applied to drive for a certain well known company were advised to make their wills before getting in the cab. It was a cut throat game.
Thankfully safety has improved thanks to tougher regulation, but mainly because of the reconstruction of the Pacific to motorway standard, which has seen the crash rate plummet, benefitting g everyone.
Just need to finish Ballina-Grafton and then build the Coffs bypass and by about 2022 it should all be roses.
Aged wanderers will be able to meander along at 90, minimising their emissions while dipping their bickies in their recyclable travel mugs, without having trucks up their bums.
Maybe.

Oh dear Mike, you've proven what you've previously stated, that you have no practical skills. You must have been a teacher's aid for too long, you don't appear to have any business or time nous.
Heavy vehicle operators can only work limited hours in a day. Being held up for quarter of an hour by inconsiderate and/or incompetent light vehicle drivers can cost thousnds of dollars.
Your claims about wills and pill popping demonstrate that you will repeat rumours and tongue in cheek remarks as fact. You know less about my industry than I know about schools.

[ChookD2]

When I order a coffee and answer the sugar question with "no thanks", I usually get the reply of "sweet enough hey?".

My reply to that is "no, just happy being sour".

[BradC]

When I order a coffee and answer the sugar question with "no thanks", I usually get the reply of "sweet enough hey?".

I made the mistake once of answering the sugar question with "Why, is your coffee that bad?". I don't go back there anymore.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Heavy vehicle operators can only work limited hours in a day. Being held up for quarter of an hour by inconsiderate and/or incompetent light vehicle drivers can cost thousnds of dollars.
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He's not as silly as someone that relies on perfect traffic conditions over thousands of highway kilometers, every single day of their working lives,, and when they miss by 15 minutes lose thosands of dollars..

as a business model that sucks the big one.......

[ramblingboy42]

Back in my day truckies wern,t called truckies just truck drivers , who were becuase of the under powered slow trucks were the ones holding up all the traffic , but the so called Bickie Dippers , Mobile road blocks , Wobblys , etc etc etc did not not complain about being held up like the current mob of so called truck steerers . .

truckies are like bikies....

truckers are like bikers....

truck drivers are like bike riders....

trucks haven't been slow for 40 yrs....but they have been speed restricted