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years ago I was stuck behind a hilux he was traveling along this narrow track at walking pace after awhile more vehicles lined up behind he had plenty of spots to pull over and let everyone pass,we came up to a wide shallow water crossing so I stopped when he was 1/4 of the way across I went for it 3rd gear flat out passed on his right his window down he got very wet :twisted:
One problem with many drivers is the "Anyone going faster than me is speeding!" attitude.
Ron
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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
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I do the F3 run daily and usually sit alittle above :angel: the posted speed so therefore anyone who passes me "IS" speeding because I am:twisted: .Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
It's not the guy in his hotted up Plastic Rice Burner playing his Doff Doff at 400db, screaming past that scares me.
It's the guys driving 50T of B-double at 140+k's screaming down the Mooney bridge smacked off their face, that haven't sleep for days that scare me. Speed limited My ****.:o
ahhh, let's not start having this as a slanging session at truckies shall we? Stereotypes like that are about as relevant and accurate as the ones of 4wdrivers held by good ol' Scruby and co.
Re: speed limitation, yes, some drivers do tamper with them but you will find that the larger reputable companies all have them fitted complete with GPS units and if drivers speed they get fired. Simple as that. Same, same for rest stops etc. Log books are checked and with road monitoring cameras people do get caught for doing the wrong thing.
BTW, speed limiters don't work downhill. Gravity has primacy there and with 50t+ on board you do tend to get a bit of speed up. Tip - don't pull out in front of a truck.
Its not trucks that scare me, i couldnt care less about them most of them are normally pretty good, the know where you are aslong as you take into mind their blind spots and make sure you stay visible. What ****s me is the small number of dipsticks that think it is ok to sit in the middle lane of a free way when the slow lane is empty and do 10km/h below the marked speed limit. I have toned down my driving of late and devloped a care free attitude to the morons around me, to further prolong my life the horn on the disco doesnt work so i cant **** anyone off to the point they might want to shoot me.
On a bad not just heard on the new that a 17yr old P-plater was killed in QLD today or yesterday after he was stabbed in a road rage incident, now that is bad. Matt
I use the one going faster than me as a saftey blanket, they normally get pulled over by the cops which holds them up long enough not to worry about me:DQuote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
im gonna build me a mad max type of bar system.......
you know.....with the big cow catcher on the front and bars all round.....
anyone under me wasnt going fast enough.......
I spent much of my working life driving, cars, trucks, buses. The road users that really get up the noses of professional drivers are the people who WON'T GET GOING!!! The ones who take several seconds to take off when the light turns green or when it is safe to do so from a stop or give way sign. the ones who treat roundabouts as stop signs. The ones who take two blocks to accelerate to 40-50 ks in a 60 zone and then drive in the middle of the road so you cant overtake. The ones who pull out from a side road into a gap in a traffic stream, said gap not being long enough for them to accelerate to the speed of the stream so everyone now behind them has to slow down and bunch up. Caravanners ( known for decades to truckies as "terrorists" as opposed to tourists) who drive the open highways at 80-90ks, refuse to look in their mirrors and see the long line of unhappy motorists behind them, and have no intention of pulling over to let others past. Farmers who pull out from their side roads or gates onto a highway when they could have waited 30 seconds for a traffic stream to pass, and then drive into town at 60ks. When you think of a stop at traffic lights as being from 90 seconds to 3 minutes, then run a few of these stops together, you can understand the frustation of a courier or delivery driver who is paid per delivery, and a sales rep, to whom the missed calls as a result of missed lights caused by slowcoaches, could have meant commission. These frustating delays could mean several missed calls/drops in a working day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace
So, get moving, people. Accelerate briskly to the speed limit, keep up to it as long as it is safe to do so. Keep left so tailgaters can get past. Dont make the traffic streams prop just so you can get in the first available space.
And, if you want to get out of your vehicle and go the knuckle, make sure you have not brought boxing gloves to a gunfight.
There are good and bad in all drivers and roadusers. Truckdrivers are not excepted to this, neither should they be unfairly targeted. It is the cowboys that do the damage. We were run off the road some time back by a road train coming the opposite way fast asleep at the wheel, wrong side of the road, spotties blaring so we could not see the road. We went bush hooter blaring, he kept going no apology on the CB anything. Then there are the triple road trains around here that are doing 40kph in a 110kph zone. Thats a lot of fun when you come over a hill or around a bend and there is one of these clowns on the road. There have been numerous fatalities over the years around here, when tourists who are not used to or aware of these trucks going this slow. Then there's the whipping of the dog trailers wildly onto the wrong side of the road. Does not matter how good the driver is in the last 2 situations they can and do kill people.
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