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31-08-2005, 12:32 PM | #31 | ||
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The little trucks eh? We call 'em 'taxis with a box on the back' because most drive like taxi drivers. But that's a whole different thread isn't it? taxis that is...
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31-08-2005, 12:35 PM | #32 | |||
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31-08-2005, 01:12 PM | #33 | ||
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My two cents...
My step-dad drives concrete trucks for his job, and he says the number of times he's been cut off by idiots in cars is unbelievable. What if he saw you at the last second, coming toward you @ 60km/h loaded with 6 cubic metres of concrete? You wouldn't wanna dare try and cut him off. On the other side of the coin, I was cut off on the Bruce Highway twice in one day by truckies in semi-trailers. Both times I was coming up in the right lane, could have easily spotted me in their mirror, but no, they swerve for lack of a better word right in front of me to get past another vehicle in front of them. Granted that they may have 50 tonne worth of cargo on board, but saving the guy in front of them could've killed me. Luckily my brakes are good enough to slow me right down to let him in.
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31-08-2005, 02:10 PM | #34 | ||
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I deal with more truckies each week then most people see in a month. I would say that in 12 years here I've probably met less than 10 that should be taken out and shot. The rest are good honest and cosiderate (on the road anyway) blokes. There are "cowboys" in all road user groups. If there was 5% of idiots in each group, then of course most of them would be in cars. When your bigger that everyone else your few mistakes stand out a lot more....
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31-08-2005, 06:31 PM | #35 | |||
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08-10-2005, 09:21 PM | #36 | |||
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08-10-2005, 10:28 PM | #37 | ||
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Stop being so "loving & caring" guys... EVERY day, look how many of these "cowboys" run red lights? I mean, WATCH!!... My light will turn green at an intersection, and there's a big one approaching the red, EVERY time, they'll run it! EVERY time!
And they'll tell me .. "Oh it's SO hard pulling up 40 tonnes"... bananas!... they are equipped with brakes on every wheel, ABS (on most late trucks) It is purely & simply a bully thing!! An "I'm bigger than you" complex. And it s the cripe outta me.
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08-10-2005, 10:38 PM | #38 | ||
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AND, BTW... I drove for 5 odd yrs doing OD glass for Pilks interstate, so my above is NOT said without a certain degree of knowledge...
What I am saying is truckies (yes, mostly local) have their own definition of traffic-light compliance...They simply don't care!... I see it 20 times a day around Nth Laverton, Brooklyn..
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10-10-2005, 11:02 AM | #39 | ||
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Do you report them?
If not, then you are as bad as them
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10-10-2005, 11:09 AM | #40 | ||
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Dad was a truckie and can reverse down a very tight alley way in one go. He ran over a BMW 3 series for trying to go up the inside while dad was turning left. There may be dumb truck drivers out there but there are also dumb drivers out there. Sure a driver doesn't have a 42 tonne vechile but to get to that class of licence literally takes years and plenty of hours with a truck driving school.
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