All i can say is im glad i was in a Volvo!

The driver was polish and in a left hand drive lorry, he admitted it was his fault, we were going round a roundabout, he decided he wanted to be in my lane, and didnt see me!

And to top it off he tried to drive off twice...... until i stood in front of the lorry!

He couldnt understand or speak a word of english, so the police had to get a translator.

Nob.

 

what a cock, i quite like them D30's

at least your ok eh

ps, rob the spoiler off it will you

 

Unlucky, glad your ok though

 

Glad you ok Maria!!! Bet it was scary


Trouble with left hooker trucks they have a blind spot by there Hope it all gets sorted ok! Least it was a company car...

 

I cant believe we had a Polish over in England who couldn't speak English



Its shit, But glad your ok

 

what a cunt trying to drive off!, they should ban him from driving in the UK

glad your ok, and no real damage done

 

what would it have done to your cos

 

What a polish goon!

Glad your ok, could of been allot worse

Maybe working for ovlov isnt SO bad afterall?

 

What roundabout is that Maria?

Look like the A14/A12 junction as if you were coming from Felixstowe, came off the A14 at the junction and were heading to Tesco's!

Where it splits into 2 lanes yes?

 

FasterFords - my god thats just unbearable to think about!

vroooom ptssssh - yeah not so bad after all!

Fil - yeah i was pretty pissed off as you can imagine!

he has been charged with careless driving, but as he was on his way back to the docks with his cargo, they have to let him go back.

Norfolk Line are now responsible for making sure he attends court.

but the police seem to think he wont even have to attend

 

Smit - yeah thats the one ( copdock roundabout )

And Dan - no i cant rob the spoiler the car is being repaired!

 

Thankgod you are ok!!

 

Glad your ok chick!

 

Handy working at Volvo hey

What you get as a replacement?

Micra LOL

Sorry

No pun intended...

 

Gutted.
I had similar but with a rhd truck when I was in my Vec. Said he never saw me. Luckily the damage wasn't as bad as yours. Hope you get it sorted with as little hassle as possible.

 

Watch out - the last foreign lorry driver that drove into me (not my Cos either thank God!) accepted liability, exchanged details, and drove off into the M25 car park. Exactly the same, ish, left hooker lorry didn't see me next to him and pulled over into work's Fiesta.

2 years later, I got quizzed by the FD at work because now this German lorry driver's claiming that I was on the phone, even though he didn't see me... hmmm.... Shame the police weren't in attendance taking things down to use in evidence.

At least you're OK though

 

Glad your ok hun

 

And the lesson learned here is? A lot of people calling the hgv driver a cock etc etc etc, should not have tried to drive off as that is taking the piss but being a fellow HGV driver it is hard to get around junctions and roundabouts etc when all car drivers are intrested in is getting past you by any means necessary, left hand drive unit and the geezer is in strange and unfamiliar surroundings, cut him a bit of slack,

car drivers remember, try not to go up the inside of artics and give em a bit of room


Luciano

 

i only called him a cock ( well cunt ) due to the fact he tried to drive off, which is bang out of order!

 

People might indeed have cut him some slack if he had not tried TO DRIVE OFF.
Agreed it is an easy mishap to happen, but a certain few drivers from foreign shores especially are not insured properly or licesnesed in some cases.
I would be very suprised if he shows up in court, as the great brit gov will not do anything about it if he does not.
tabetha

 

fuck a duck, thats not good is it

Arseholes, hate these idiots on our roads!

Glad your ok though

 

If i had been trying to undertake him, then fair enough, but i was merely crawling at no more than 5-10mph as there was traffic around. This nob simply was not looking where he was going.

As he clearly stated to his interpreter when giving the police a statement.

 

Your ok that is the main thing, even if he had no insurance/license they could not arrest him as not arrestable offence, they can question him then have to let him go!!
tabetha

 

gutted. trying to drive off twice?? he not have a hgv licence or something? had the same when my car was smashed by a polish guy who, typically, couldn't speak english. turned out no insurance and i believe no uk valid licence

 

Oh shit !

What a twat, at least your ok though

 

am i missing summat here?? it's a C30 isn't it..yet two people have called it a D30....i'm confused

i agree he is a cock for trying to drive off..

 

Glad your ok, that volvo is tough


And why dont the polish stay in bloody poland, ive nearly been taken out a few times by them!!!

 

Speak to the cunts in whitehall, now that all of us who are citizens in this country and hold a hgv licence are very limited to what hours we can work expect a bigger flood of european/foreign hgv drivers,

nice 1 government cunts


Luciano

 

You forgot to mention our overtaxed lifestyle lets them come and work here for a fraction of what we can.

 

I know lets lock down the borders

 

Oh dear.. At least it was only a slow moving tump... And not a high speed fatal crunch up.
If that was a cosworth it would be written off and deemed beyond economical repair so good job its a company motor..
I always stay back from trucks on roundabouts cos they usually need more than 1 lane..
but like you say, a queue of traffic and he squashed you in..

 

Maybe so, but I still don't think you understand how big the blind spot can be on the right hand side of a LHD lorry. (I know, I drive one all day) You can lose whole cars in it easily and you can't watch that mirror 100% of the time, it only takes a couple of seconds for someone to jump in it and you don't know they're there.

 

it's going to be my next car. It's defo a C30. Sorry to hear about it.

 

We had a C30 courtesy car last week for 2 days whilst my V70 R was in for repair, what a pile of shit the C30 is sorry, so ugly & felt really cheap inside,didn't feel like a real Volvo,yuk hate them.

Simon.

 

and that is a problem because ?? what you dont speak a word of polish ??? how about french or german??

not nice to be involved in any accident

but do you really thiink there was any need for that comment ???


maybe the people of the countries you visit on your holidays say the same thing.....

 

The thing is, on a roundabout an artic lorry will swing into the inside lane as it drives round, I've lost count of the amount of times this has happend with my lorries. The driver of the car should be aware that this happens and give the lorry some room. This is why you see lorries sitting over 2 lanes at the giveway going on to roundabouts so that people cannot come up their o/s.

I've also seen insurance claims being resolved in our favour as the car driver is driving without paying attention to what is actually going on round about them.

We have had a few Polish and Czech drivers recently and to be honest I cannot fault them at all, a few language issues but their driving is generaly of a high standard.

Why are Norfolkline responsible can I ask??

BTW not blaming you at all, glad you're ok.

 

Eagle some people dont think of it like that though Classic case of Ethnocentricism.. Also By stoping them come over here to deliver items, you can kiss good bye to cheap goods etc.

Personally i welcome over here, aslong as they abide by the law of the land.

Agree with Maria though, shocking he tried to drive off

 

I have many Polish drivers coming into our place each day, generally nice people who try hard to earn a living, most companies in the UK that order goods from abroad normally leave it to the companies they are buying from to organise the transport, i think gone are the days where a UK company will use a UK haulier / forwarder to bring goods in as we're too expensive and the poles that work in England driving full time only get £5 per hour but i think they should speak English as they are in England afterall and that Volvo is horrid

 

Good old Copdock Mill interchange, it is a fooookin shocking design for the amount of traffic that use it.