Driving up the newell yesterday between goondi and Toowoomba , I was sitting on 90k , when I see a truck approach I keep and eye on them as soon as I see them pull out , wait till they are right out and then take my foot off the pedal . I seen a semi behind me , with a low loader empty . he came up behind me and I thought he was staying put as it was slightly down hill and across a water culvert with barriers each side ( no verge) , I looked in my mirror and he is coming alongside of me. He would have overtaken me on the culvert . I had to brake quite firmly to pull back . I wish I had a cam on the dash to record the idiot , I didn't get the number at all . I know its stupidity but is it illegal as there was not any signage to say no overtaking .
Yeh, we know how you must have felt. We had a ''check your undies for stains experience'' last week heading north from Bourke.
Saw a car approaching, heading towards us a fair way off but not far enough for us to be overtaken. We were doing 90kph+
A road train with huge cotton bale rolls pulls out & starts overtaking us. I take my foot off the accelerator straight away.
He gets halfway past us & looking down beside us at his indicators on the mudflaps of his truck he's indicating that he's going left to pull back onto our side.
I hit the brakes, he just clears us, moves back in & the oncoming car zooms past. Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So close to being run off the road with nowhere to go.
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I realise that's probably the case digger but when you have a 23' van bouncing around on a rough rd surface and maybe a foot either side of you with a 20 tonne truck doing 90 - 100k alongside and probably moving around a bit it self , It's a recipe for disaster , Especially with the buffer and vortex from the truck pushing us around to boot. Whatever you say it's a stupid thing to have done with miles of road ahead to overtake on .
