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Spot on. Like trucks, the things are everywhere, and being big, stand out. You could easily point the same criticism at Range Rover drivers, or Audi, or BMW, but there ain't so many of those. Come up my way on the weekend and take a look at Tesla drivers, although with them it's usually arrogance. Are they all arrogant? Of course not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
You forgot to add that the front belly plate and front tow brackets have to be painted bright orange or yellow thus making them very prominent so that plebs like us admire them and understand that the vehicle is set up very purposefully and used for really serious 4Wdriving...[bighmmm]Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
I agree, i saw a P plater the other day in fairly heavy trafiic flying up the car in fronts arse only to hit the brakes nose diving the ranger then repeating that numerous times before using the next exit ramp lane as an overtaking lane.
On the weekend i saw some of the worst driving i have seen in a long time, did a few trips from home to St Leonards both Saturday and Sunday taking my youngest to her friends 18th birthday party do clocked up a few k's.
On the Saturday coming home just on dusk i saw 2 little ****boxes flying in and out of the traffic with no lights on cutting every vehicle off with each lane change, then later on we were crawling in traffic due to an accident and by this time is was after 6pm and dark we came up to car beside us again with no lights on at all.
My wife tried to tell him he had no lights but he was oblivious, i even yelled out at him but nothing. No lights on the dash of the craptiva so dont think it was because of an issue.
That's true. The ones on a HiLux or Colorado (!) are usually a more subtle red.Quote:
Originally Posted by Discodicky
I had a clown in a Ranger exceed the 100 speed limit on a main road to pass me on a hill, so I used late braking and cornering speed to pass him in the next roundabout. [biggrin]Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
I also agree with other posts, that Tesla drivers seem to think they are saving the planet so can and do ignore road rules.
So, in arkie towing the car trailer, pulled into a bunnings car park to get some screws.
Upset driver followed me into a car park as apparently stopping in the in left lane of a 2 lane T intersection blocking him from turning left while I waited for the traffic to clear is a heneous crime and decided that I had to be informed of my poor driving, his triad derailed when I interupeted to ask "is that bash plate chromed?" which I followed up to his confirmation of my suspision with "figures" and just walked off.
Then found him in the tradies bay arguing with the staff member over correct tie downs with his 6m lengths of pine stuck into the tailgate and over the tube rack pointing nicely into the sky at an ungodly angle with the end 3m off the deck in the front.
Apparently commenting on how he should have bought a proper sized ute did little to defuse the frustrations of the other parties
I like to do this when the round about is one of those truck friendly ones that you can put tyres up onto with little fear of damaging the tyres or suspension. When I've got the tall roadies on and its a tight two laner roundabout any race driver would go a whole row of 6's for track limit abuse. If they take the left lane and the little pedestrian island has no squish bumps, any signage is in far enough and the curbs are the 45 degree ones you're just not going to see a flatter line through a corner. Best bit, so long as I keep one set of wheels in the lane, Its legal because well, truck.Quote:
Originally Posted by RANDLOVER
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Originally Posted by loanrangie
DAMN! I thought you were about to tell us the cause of the accident was created by Mr No LIGHTS>[bighmmm][bigrolf]
Well it could have been the 2 dickheads racing thru the traffic but we never got to see what the cause was.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4bee
Since it was a few years ago, the aggressive dual cabs I saw on one trip probably weren't all Rangers.
However, the dual cabs were the most common vehicles overtaking when there was barely time to complete the pass.
On that occasion I think I know why they were in such a hurry. It was Friday afternoon on the road from Canberra down to the coast. At that time a lot of the tradies working in Canberra were from out of town. My guess is that a lot of tradies in dual cabs were eager to get home after a week working in Canberra.
I once saw even more aggressive overtaking on a trip from Canberra to Yass. A slow moving farm truck had created quite a convoy behind him. There were few passing opportunities especially as there weren't big gaps in the convoy.
One driver decided he would overtake as many cars as he could and just bluff his way back in at the last moment when a vehicle came the other way. He did that at least three times, working his way up the convoy.
He was driving a Rolls Royce.
When I arrived in Yass, he was parked in the main street.