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So called professional driver should know better
« on: 05 June 2013, 22:30:32 »
I set up my approach for the middle lane.
But I get squeezed into the wrong lane whether I like it or not :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JanJCP2b0Ys&feature=youtu.be
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #1 on: 05 June 2013, 22:45:52 »
might has right ...... typical of many HGV drivers IMHO

I'll let anyone of them out of a junction, or allow them through a gap if it makes life easier all of us on the road, buta lot of them bully their way out - as the video shows.
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #2 on: 05 June 2013, 22:51:08 »
...is that all...?  :-\

You get off lightly round your way.
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #3 on: 05 June 2013, 23:00:09 »
What's wrong with that!!  :o  Didn't you see that bloody great blue thing in front of you??  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #4 on: 05 June 2013, 23:23:16 »
You might have expected that that was about to happen as at the start of the clip as the trailer is straddling both lanes :-\ that silver Audi was a bit all over the place as well.
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #5 on: 05 June 2013, 23:44:34 »
Quote from: ex taxi al on 05 June 2013, 23:23:16
You might have expected that that was about to happen as at the start of the clip as the trailer is straddling both lanes :-\ that silver Audi was a bit all over the place as well.
I thought the Audi annoyed the lorry driver tbh. Probably should have given the Hgv room as you say.
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #6 on: 06 June 2013, 00:24:44 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 05 June 2013, 23:44:34
Quote from: ex taxi al on 05 June 2013, 23:23:16
You might have expected that that was about to happen as at the start of the clip as the trailer is straddling both lanes :-\ that silver Audi was a bit all over the place as well.
I thought the Audi annoyed the lorry driver tbh. Probably should have given the Hgv room as you say.

I get the sneaking suspicion you guys drive for living ???............I`ll get my coat
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #7 on: 06 June 2013, 00:29:30 »
I think the only problem was the HGV should have indicated earlier, he was prevented from moving into the lane he wanted to be in till the last minute, had he indicated earlier you would have been aware..... :y :y
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #8 on: 06 June 2013, 01:06:07 »
Quote from: Vamps on 06 June 2013, 00:29:30
I think the only problem was the HGV should have indicated earlier, he was prevented from moving into the lane he wanted to be in till the last minute, had he indicated earlier you would have been aware..... :y :y

He hung me out to dry man, he just wasn`t prepared to get held back by mr waitrose
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #9 on: 06 June 2013, 01:09:41 »
Quote from: Vamps on 06 June 2013, 00:29:30
I think the only problem was the HGV should have indicated earlier, he was prevented from moving into the lane he wanted to be in till the last minute, had he indicated earlier you would have been aware..... :y :y

Because you have a HGVIII licence, I think you're biased  ::) ::) ::)
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #10 on: 06 June 2013, 04:49:41 »
Quote from: 78bex on 06 June 2013, 01:06:07
Quote from: Vamps on 06 June 2013, 00:29:30
I think the only problem was the HGV should have indicated earlier, he was prevented from moving into the lane he wanted to be in till the last minute, had he indicated earlier you would have been aware..... :y :y

He hung me out to dry man, he just wasn`t prepared to get held back by mr waitrose
Nor were you. Had you been planning a bit further ahead, you would have held back and been ready for it :y
Cyclist-with-a-helmet-cam syndrome me thinks, I'm right so I am invincible :-\
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #11 on: 06 June 2013, 05:36:36 »
Nothing to say that Mr Waitrose didn't miss a gear, leaving the blue truck to choices:

1. Ploughing into the back of him.
2. Swerving around him.

Moral of the story, plan ahead and allow plenty of space :y
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #12 on: 06 June 2013, 17:05:24 »
Quote from: ex taxi al on 06 June 2013, 05:36:36
Nothing to say that Mr Waitrose didn't miss a gear, leaving the blue truck to choices:

1. Ploughing into the back of him.
2. Swerving around him.

Moral of the story, plan ahead and allow plenty of space :y

Typical LGV driver. He hasn't realised yet that they do have brakes ::)
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #13 on: 06 June 2013, 18:38:14 »
That is the position he got himself in, pulling along side only to have to change lanes only served to compound the situation :-\

The blue truck certainly wasn't hanging about, another reason to keep a bit away from it. Had he been travelling a bit quicker, that might have been a squished Omega and OP :-\


On a cheerier note, I had someone nearly drive into the side of me in the Blackwall tunnel this morning  :-\ Vectra C vs 26t rigid... I wonder who would come off worse ::)
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Re: So called professional driver should know better
« Reply #14 on: 06 June 2013, 18:43:22 »
quite simple albeit the wrong way to do it,
blue truck was empty and he wanted to pass because the waitrose truck was fully loaded and would be slow,he probably didnt know this until he was behind it at the roundabout,
but he should have been in the correct lane first! :y
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