When driving through country Australia, please remember, trucks can't brake like a car can and are much longer and wider.
This was on the roper highway NT 20km from Mataranka, the car was already on the bridge when the truck come around the corner and couldn't stop, it's the worst corner to have a one lane bridge
Scary stuff Gaz and Rox, like they say, Trucks can't stop on a sixpence, but what hope would you have if the truck is around the corner and you don't see it when you start to cross the bridge......
How very true Duh, see it all the time in the city - people changing lanes right in front of fully loaded rigs and wondering why the truckie blasts his horn. Mind you, i've been doing 120 and been overtaken by rigs with a "Speed Limited 100 KPH" stickers on the back so I guess it sorta goes both ways.
Cricky, no ones fault really, a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time I reckon. Roger that, maybe a bit of UHF usage might be the go in that situation good buddy. I must admit I have learnt something there, use the UHF on narrow roads and bridges on bends or corner's.
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One would think the truck driver would know the road and drive to the conditions , I don't sallow the saying a truck can't stop on sixpence everyone has a responcible to not travell at a speed which they can't safely stop to avoid an incident . At a driver training school I attend at Mount cotton in Brisbane that was a big part of the training and modern trucks do has great breaking .
This is one of those situations where the Tax dollar should go to making these bridges wider. If this is a major Highway why the hell is the bridge only one lane. There must be thousands of these things round the country.
Maybe we should stop the "Pollies " going to weddings Etc Etc. on taxpayer money. Stop the foreign aid and sort out our own backyard first.
One would think the truck driver would of known the road and drive to the conditions, I don't swallow the saying a truck can't stop on sixpence everyone has a responsible to not travel at a speed which they can't safely stop to avoid an incident . At a driver training school I attend at Mount cotton in Brisbane that was a big part of the training and modern trucks do have great breaking.
A big ten 4 rubber duck.
48 years professional driver, I refuse to listen to the cb radio with it's language and I don't need my lady to hear them on it either.
I also was a professional driver for a long time and towing a caravan now for 7 years and yet to see the need to use a two way , In the fire service which I was in, the driver was not allowed to use the two way while driving , Mobile phone is not allowed when driving can't see that two ways should be any safer , I sure would not take the word of someone on a radio that it was safe to pass , I would only pass if I can see it's safe to pass and also would not want the responcible of telling someone it is safe to pass has there is allways the unkown that can happen .
