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[Andy B]

As can some trucks to be fair

I wouldn't be stuck behind the barstewards in lane 2 if the could/did

[MR MISTER]

As can some trucks to be fair

Luton's with tail lifts can't.

[05omegav6]

That's only because rental companies buy the cheapest, most underpowered ones they can

[MR MISTER]

I'm watching Eddie Stobart. All of his drivers are marvellous chaps.

[05omegav6]

More than can be said for their management

[chrisgixer]

I'm watching Eddie Stobart. All of his drivers are marvellous chaps.

To be fair.... No they're not are they.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I did a trip to Poland once in a 7.5 tonner, and reasoned that as my unladened weight was 3.5 tonne and I wasn't carrying much more than a couple of tonnes, I was OK to use the outside lane on the autobahns in Germany where there were 7.5t tonne weight limits.   

Many of the cars drivers clearly thought the same as I got lots of flashing lights congratulating me, and many 'Hello Englander!' hand gestures!! 

[D]

My pet peeve on the A1M. The number of times I have to stand on my brake because some idiot in a lorry wants to overtake. If I am not mistaken, isn't it wrong to cause another vehicle to perform an emergency brake or manoeuvre due to your manoeuvre. But most of the truckers on the A1M dont seem to care. The few considerate truckers I have seen are the ones that voluntarily slow down so that the idiot overtaking takes 2 minutes rather than 20 to complete the overtaking process. It really slows traffic down.

[chrisgixer]

In such circumstances, with the middle lane now clear forward of the truck, its entirely acceptable to sit in the traffic free lane 2 at 2 or 3 mph slower than 56.

...in my humble opinion of course.

[Elite Pete]

I think overtaking for LGVs should be banned between the hours of 7am and 7pm

The between A41 Chester and Whitchurch poxes me off. You get stuck behind 2 LGV doing 40mph and the second LGV is right up the chuff of the first so mo gap to nip into should you run out of road when over taking so your stuck for 20 miles. Then you get the sign for a dual carriageway in 1 mile, brilliant. You get to the dual carriageway and the second truck pulls out to overtake the first truck but the driver has burried his foot so they accelerate at the same speed. The overtaking truck either gets past very slowly at the end of the dual carriageway leaving you stranded at the side of the first truck and there's no way he's going to be letting you in or the second truck has to pull back in and everything goes back to how it was for the last 20 miles.
 My question is. If the first LGV driver was happy doing 40mph for the last 20 miles why bury the throttle for a mile of dual carriageway

[albitz]

I was on he A12 on the way to Smacktown on sea on Friday. Inside lane at exactly 60moh (cant remember why) and the artic behind me kept gtting closer,and then pulled out and overtook me !
I remarked to swmbo that afaik they are supposed to be restricted to 56mph ( it wasn't a foreign reg either). There was a car in front of me,which the HGV driver failed to notice apparently,because as soon as he passed me he started to pull back in.
The car driver swung left until his n/s wheels were actually of the side of the road,at which point the HGV driver noticed he was there and quickly swung back out into the outside lane.
It was shocking to behold (and I imagine almost heart attack provoking for the driver of the car in front) and imo, the HGV driver should be either banned from going outside his own house, or shot in front of his family.

[blackviper90210]

I was on he A12 on the way to Smacktown on sea on Friday. Inside lane at exactly 60moh (cant remember why) and the artic behind me kept gtting closer,and then pulled out and overtook me !
I remarked to swmbo that afaik they are supposed to be restricted to 56mph ( it wasn't a foreign reg either). There was a car in front of me,which the HGV driver failed to notice apparently,because as soon as he passed me he started to pull back in.
The car driver swung left until his n/s wheels were actually of the side of the road,at which point the HGV driver noticed he was there and quickly swung back out into the outside lane.
It was shocking to behold (and I imagine almost heart attack provoking for the driver of the car in front) and imo, the HGV driver should be either banned from going outside his own house, or shot in front of his family.

There are idiots in all types of driving seats!

I had a vw golf on London in a left hand turn lane only, pulled away from the lights in my artic and followed the road round. Half way round the truck felt like it was dragging or the brakes were binding. Stopped on the roundabout to investigate and found the vw golf had tried to cut across the front of me, buried itself into my front steps of the cab and then. Took him on a trip round the roundabout flattening the pedestrian barriers in the process!

The stupid prat then blamed me 

Needless to say he was lucky the police arrived otherwise he would have needed A & E treatment!

[albitz]

Your right. Im not trying to tar all HGV drivers with the same brush. I was just shocked and appalled by this particular one,and curious how he managed to overtake me at approx. 65mph.
I remember years ago some nob in a Chevette actually parked behind one of the artics where I worked,while the driver was reversing the artic. He felt a bit of a bump and found most of a chevette under the back of his trailer.
On the other hand, I was parking in a parking space at work one morning, and the driver of an artic who had been been leaning out of the window chatting to his mate when I passed the front of his truck, put it in reverse without checking his mirrors and reversed straight into the rear quarter of my first Omega.

[hoofing it]

I think overtaking for LGVs should be banned between the hours of 7am and 7pm

The between A41 Chester and Whitchurch poxes me off. You get stuck behind 2 LGV doing 40mph and the second LGV is right up the chuff of the first so mo gap to nip into should you run out of road when over taking so your stuck for 20 miles. Then you get the sign for a dual carriageway in 1 mile, brilliant. You get to the dual carriageway and the second truck pulls out to overtake the first truck but the driver has burried his foot so they accelerate at the same speed. The overtaking truck either gets past very slowly at the end of the dual carriageway leaving you stranded at the side of the first truck and there's no way he's going to be letting you in or the second truck has to pull back in and everything goes back to how it was for the last 20 miles.
My question is. If the first LGV driver was happy doing 40mph for the last 20 miles why bury the throttle for a mile of dual carriageway

single carrageway 40mph ,dual 50 ,motorway 60

[biggriffin]

Am reading this with interest, as all the posts seem to be coming from, people who have never driven a proper hgv (44 tonnes) or they drive sprinters ( jumped up posties,couriers ) or old people on there way to hospital,or collection of there pension.
yes if the truck that was being overtook,knocked the cruise off for the count of 15, he would get overtaken with ease,but as being overtaken to some drivers is like questioning there manhood(numbtys,dock jockeys,). Only the true professional slows down,also a lot of jolly foreigner does as well,especially when in Europe,gendarmes fine €100+,Gestapo  even more and Italians what ever lunch and dinner costs.