Grumpy old buggers thread

[DiscoMick]

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.

The Pacific Highway is now so good that any trucker could easily do Sydney-Brisbane without speeding. It's just not necessary to speed. They're rolling along pretty happily now when I travel it.

My statements about pill popping and wills weren't rumours, they were facts. I know because I was well connected back in the day.

BTW I was never a teacher's aide.

[Saitch]

Are loudmouthed, foulmouthed, fat, tattooed, middle aged woman in gross swimwear basically repugnant or are they part of the "Evolution of Our Species"?

Three of them reclining on the beach, preventing the tide from coming in, using the best words that obscenities can supply and puffing on durries, all with young kids/calves around them. What chance, these kiddies.

[4bee]

SH, why don't you see if you & your Bro can roll them into the surf like beached whales. Job done.

Someone else's problem when they eventually wash up somewhere else.

[V8Ian]

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.......

Pedro, with up to a $1,000,000 invested in a combination and an annual rego of $20,000, it's simply not viable to amble between eastern seaboard capitals in a couple of days.
Just look at the number of forum members who complain about the time freight takes to be delivered.
I'm not complaining about all of the wobbly box brigade, in fact on a percentage basis they'd be more considerate and competent than light vehicle drivers in general.
The standard of driving in this country is appalling, yet every one thinks they're absolute experts.

[DiscoMick]

Love the phrase 'preventing the tide from coming in.'

[Saitch]

.....and the beach is NP so they shouldn't be smoking.
Cigarettes, I mean. They're definitely not "Smokin'"!
Oh, did i menton the boom box with the likes of Farnham and Brookes spewing forth.

Grumpy enough?

[DiscoMick]

Pedro, with up to a $1,000,000 invested in a combination and an annual rego of $20,000, it's simply not viable to amble between eastern seaboard capitals in a couple of days.
Just look at the number of forum members who complain about the time freight takes to be delivered.
I'm not complaining about all of the wobbly box brigade, in fact on a percentage basis they'd be more considerate and competent than light vehicle drivers in general.
The standard of driving in this country is appalling, yet every one thinks they're absolute experts.

Yes, definitely agree with that about driving standards.
How many people don't know how to drive on motorways and blissfully block the fast lane instead of moving over?
Most of the bad driving I see now is by younger blokes in utes, like the one the other day who forced his way between two vehicles on the motorway near us and then gave the one finger salute out the window.
Professional truckers have a job to do and most do it well. My comments were about the past, it's much better now.
Better roads have made the cowboys redundant. What company would risk putting a $1m rig in the hands of some lead foot who might take risks and crash it? Overnight runs between East Coast capitals are very achievable now without hooning.

[JDNSW]

The Golden Highway adjacent to here has been closed since just after dawn on Monday when a fuel tanker rolled after running off the road on a bend. The latest notice is that it is closed until further notice due to fuel contamination of the soil.

While it seems improbable that a fuel tanker was being driven by a "cowboy", it must have left the fuel depot in Newcastle around midnight (and according to a truck driver I discussed it with yesterday after having queued for hours to load), so it seems likely that lack of sleep may have been a factor. While it is possible that a light vehicle's actions may have helped, it is unlikely there would have been many about at that hour.

[Bigbjorn]

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.

My Road Bosses (435 hp Detroits) were doing the Bris-Sydney, Sydney-Bris shuttle pulling company trailers comfortably in fourteen hours in the early 1980's using the New England H'way and Putty Road. The Pacific Highway then was a piece of rubbish particularly the last bit into and through Sydney. Twelve hours down the new Pacific H'way and motorways should be achievable if it wasn't for the vehicles that are determined to hold you up. Whilst many caravanners are content to dawdle along looking at rocks and trees other road users are using the highways for commerce. Line Haul operators who suffer a financial penalty for being late into depot, late in could mean missing your unloading slot and have to wait all day or until the next day, buses that have a timetable to keep, salesmen with appointments that could mean commission, courier drivers who are paid per delivery, people heading for specialist appointments that they have been waiting six months for, people with court appearances scheduled, so don't hold them up. Drive at the limit or get out of the way. Rare indeed is the caravanner who looks regularly in the mirror and pulls over when he sees a few vehicles banked up behind. Some of them are pig ignorant and ignore repeated high beam flashes and blasts of air horns. Get going or get over.

[101RRS]

Drive at the limit or get out of the way. Rare indeed is the caravanner who looks regularly in the mirror and pulls over when he sees a few vehicles banked up behind. Some of them are pig ignorant and ignore repeated high beam flashes and blasts of air horns. Get going or get over.

And that is exactly my experience with "professional" truck drivers on the Hume - one truck passing another doing 1/4kph faster than the other blocking the highway - yes many truck drivers are pig ignorant and ignore indications to move over.

Ever notice how many of these "professional" drivers plow into stopped lines of traffic, or hit parked trucks and cars, or after an accident investigation were found to be high on whatever.

For sure others drivers are just as guilty but they are are not "professional" - in my experience many truck drivers are far from "professional".