Lee Reynolds

Are all lorry drives thick or are just some of them dunces?

How come they have started to think road signs dont apply to them now only sat nav?

Lorries going down narrow lanes with low or narrow bridges or lanes too narrow for them and no where to turn around because

'' the sat nav has sent me down here officer '' LMFAO

Look at the road signs wally brains

C4llyT

What signs?
Very few prohibit hgv's.
"Access only" - Wouldn't go down road unless needed access somewhere.
"Except for access" - As above.
"Unsuitable for large vehicles etc" - which are blue, thus advisory.
Width and weight one's I often ignore, pubs are often in villages down little lanes.
Some of the worst lanes have no restrictions or advisory signs anyway.
Weight limits aren't really enforced unless there are complaints.

Height ones are valid enough, as are narrow bridges lol.

Only ever come unstuck due to arseholes in cars parking like complete fuckwits, I must admit.

Lee Reynolds

Lol gret b and q lorry yesterday down a lane stuck and clearly sign posted max 7 feet wide

C4llyT

Can't have been much in it? Lol.
We just beat ours through, so old and tatty.
Often widths and heights have a fair margin - can squeeze lorries under bridges that are lower than lorry usually, but you wonder who's the first to try that one

Don't know unless you try

RA052824

Lorry drivers, cabbies, bus drivers, old age pentioners, people that sit to close to the streering wheel, merc owners, chavs in their 1.1

I hate them all!

Mark_

thats quite true c4llyt, i have to go under a bridge marked '13.9' on a daily bases. my lorry is 14.2 and happilly goes under. what about the stupid car drivers that think its fine to slip into your blind spot whilst your sat at lights waiting to make a nasty left turn. as for sat nav, i never use them, think they are shit and would'nt pay 2 or 3hundred for some thing my maps books do a perfectly good job of. please lets not pick on truck drivers as there are plenty of thick car drivers who havent had half as much training as hgv drivers.

christianh3

there's bad drivers in ALL types of vehicles, it's stupid to suggest they all drive lorries

Of course 99.31% of RS owners are stupid thick crap spelling chavved up dickheads who spend too much time on internet BBS's...dicks, why dont they drive a proper car like a subaru ffs!!!

JoeE30

and a merry christmas to you cock jockey....

Mark_

christianh3 if thats the case ask your self 'why are you in here' and butler come on thats not fair. i bet a high percentage of cozzy owners in here are either cabbies or truckers.

christianh3

J O K E



What i posted is no more ridiculous and untrue than the first thread in this post...in fact my post is probably more accurate

C4llyT

What my workmate always said 'til ours saved us loads of time with shortcuts.
One 2.5 hour route he'd tried every way, satnav showed 20 minute quicker way. Good when you're on task and finish
He was logistics chappy in army for 25 years, so obviously stuck to maps, but soon changed his opinion.

It's an absolute godsend. Other day caught in an accident on dual carriageway. I turned satnav on, he said no point.
Put in avoid roadblock ahead, directed us off down some lanes adding 5 minutes to the 50 mile journey home, instead of who knows how long in accident.

TomTom One Ł130 now

On topic, they're starting to sort the maps out for hgv's now, not before time!
They did say they wouldn't do it, but is going ahead

Mark_

i know what you saying coz my mate di get stuck at a low bridge with a tomtom but that was a few years back now and my idiot brother lost hiss sump taking a road the tom tom told him to take. he ended up on a farmers service road and caught the sump on a tree stump. i know they are doing one for lorries but not sure if id bother as i get on fine without one. guess im just stuck in my ways.

mk3matt

you can know buy a sat nav from halfords forŁ99.99 and it has all the lorry routes and ways to be avoided, ie bridges!

Si B

iTrader: (59)

As a trucker myself, delivering farm animal feed and so living down narrow country lanes (where the farms are), HERE HERE!!!

Si

chip RS

lorry's keep getting stuck on the moss near me
this is number 6 this year
only happened last week this one

StephenC

should just unhook the tractor unit and drive off, nothing of value getting left behind their !!!!

vibrating_cake

but the parking like fuckwits is fun... the only few that hang out further than the rest...generally wake up to no wing mirror on the roadside
clipped a few wheels before when they have been left on full lock pointing into the road....
and i dont feel guilty, theres something called COMMON SENCE that would stop it happening, park like a dick get treated like one when someones liveleyhood is on the line if quotas aint met

aduz

can someone also tell hgv drivers to stop hogging the middle lane on motorways aswell or overtake and then stay at the same speed

Big G

Cant you tell the biggest thing some people have driven is their mouse around the desk

vibrating_cake

can you go and follow a slower hgv than yours for 50miles down the m62 then tell us not to do it, thankyou

StephenC

but why do the guys in the slower HGV have an annoying nack of not flashing the turbo HGV in and leaving about 400 yards gap before they do??? Is it a little man syndrome thing or what? Many a times Ive flashed the trucks to let them back in as the slower ones just leave it so late.
Got a lot of respect for some drivers, cant be easy having all that weight behind and having to accomadate idiots late braking and cutting them up, but there are some poor ones just like in any other vehicle.

foreigneRS

well said

scottbrown

unplug my speed limiter then and I wont hold you up...

C4llyT

Very very rarely do you not get flashed back in, and most of the times you don't there's such a speed differential there's no need.
Also, the overtaking driver should be able to judge when he's clear, not that difficult.
Honestly don't see much of what you refer to, and am on the roads50+ hours a week.

As for the parking, I've no sympathy taking mirrors off, had a couple in the same place - school mums.
Bloke was parked right out one day, was left blocking road for ten minutes, then he mentioned "bloody lorries".
Soon had the prick apologising when I told him was no bigger than a fire truck.

percybigun

the HGV's round my way are starting to use the narrow back roads as a short-cut, they never done it until recently. some of them i recognise the livery on them and i know for a fact they arent delivering to rural areas

and the reason they are doing it? cos the main roads in the area are all clogged up with hgv's lol

so before, i had a viable alternative to the main roads which are full of hgv's going 20-30mph, now i dont.

and the government refuses all applications for upgrading roads in the area to dual carriageway.

C4llyT

Are hgv's prohibited on these roads?
Advisory signs are far more common than prohibitive signs, least on my travels

dojj

iTrader: (3)

a polish lorry driver put his artic down a road with a 6"6 restriction, with no way to back up because it was round a sharp corner

st georges road in w7

stick it into google maps and see if you think you could string a 40 foot artic round them streets

C4llyT

Hmm
That's just silly!
Still, cheaper labour...

I do a pub in Woodgreen (Fordinbridge) early monday mornings.
Twice I've had artic drivers ask where somewhere is, to which I reply 100 miles North - Wood green in London is what they're after!
Always have an atlas to doublecheck the satnav if going somewhere new ffs
Pain in the arse waiting behind them for 10 minutes while they shunt to get round the pissy little bridge

chunky3

iTrader: (1)

dont comment on trucks till youve steered 1 then you will know what its like. i do it its shit 56 mph flat out its a rite laugh. where would we be without them ? all trucks want parking up for a week then you will all start moaning empty shelves in shops and no fuel for your toys.

C4llyT

Indeed, they are a pain in the arse to be stuck behind, but without them you'd be stood naked in the middle of a muddy field.

If you want to have a go at anyone, get on to frigging Tesco

chunky3

iTrader: (1)

Big G

well said mate aint that the truth some people make a noise about things they know nothing about

dojj

iTrader: (3)

anything bigger than 7.5 tonnes shouldn't be allowed on the roads between the hours of 7am till 7 pm

lets see the horrible answers start flying now

C4llyT

Thanks to the EU working time directive nonsense, that would mean a massive increase in the price of all goods

If I start before 4am, can't do more than 10 hours work - classed as night worker.
Is a pain in the arse!

Not a horrible answer, just the facts

dojj

iTrader: (3)

my mate does royal mail stuff
starts at 7 and finishes at around 4 in the morning so i know what you mean

but there needs to be something done about it, perhaps there just needs to be a threashold on the slower and faster lorries so certain ones won't sit in the middle lane while not overtaking the one next to them

JoeE30

i like the quote about the biggest thing most people drive is the mouse on the desk...aint that the bloody truth....

Please people who are complaining or moaning or bitching, come drive one or even be a passenger for a week and see the other side before comenting......

C4llyT

No wind up, but you need an overtake button.
Why I hate it every time they scrap an old lorry of ours (always mine...) as turn key back a bit, and can do knocking on 70.
I always did this to not hold people up.
Really the overtaken lorry needs to give if they both hit identical limiters, I do, don't really lose anything on the flat, just being an arsehole holding all the traffic up if not.

Always leaves lane 3 free in your example, so not the end of the world, but 2 lane dual carriageway is a pain.
Think in Germany lorries aren't allowed to overtake, just have to sit there.
Other places not allowed to overtake if it's raining, things like that.

dojj

iTrader: (3)

overbost switch

or use a burst of nitrous

C4llyT

Use what the fuck you like, speed limiter will stop you going any faster

foreigneRS

only certain stretches of 2 lane roads (motorway or dual carriageway) at certain times - but that helps no end during times of congestion and up hill sections

Mark_

just finished work. been up central london in my 40 footer. thats really fun. we are doing all the xmas parties around town. you might of seen the marques dotted all over. do one on lower thames st. we allways cause chaos there in the lorries. how upset some drivers get coz they have to wait a few mins whilst we back down the ally, how i laugh!