yobarr wrote:

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 Don't play games with the Big Boys. Simple.

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 Seems to be a really good example of the arrogance many many truck drivers show to the rest of the other road users.    

But but but. Truck drivers do no wrong. A so called road train driver is no different. I am yet to see a Tonka road train.

Mmmm, yet another B Double pile up on the M1. This time three involved. I think that might just be most days over the last week now.

Don't get me wrong, we need 'GOOD' truck drivers. Sadly, there are a lot of Cowboy ones around. They should slow down and practice what they preach.

The Tonka driver will show up soon.

Gundog wrote:

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Izabarack wrote:

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yobarr wrote:

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 Don't play games with the Big Boys. Simple.

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 Seems to be a really good example of the arrogance many many truck drivers show to the rest of the other road users.    

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 Agree and posting meaningless pictures that have no relevancee to the topic.

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 Not wishing to question your comprehension skills, Graham, but the title of the topic involves the word "truck". 

My photos of various trucks are simply to illustrate the dimensions of our vehicles.

Weights, ability to accelerate, ability to stop, and the vagaries of regularly dealing with incompetent car and caravan drivers are some of the many challenges we face daily. "Without trucks, Australia stops" Got it?  Cheers

"Without trucks, Australia stops" Got it?. ..

Hmmmm

While I know the transport industry and its truck drivers play important role in our society. I hope the most of them do not carry their importance with an arrogance that they think that they can bully and worse possibly cause injury and death via accidents, as some sort of payback or to teach someone a lesson. Judge, jury and punisher.

As we should know, many workers that play an important role in our society eg medical workers, age care workers, road maintenance workers, power workers, communication workers, teachers etc etc . Maybe Ma and Pa Kettle being retired or on holidays don't count in some people's eyes.
Hmmm, and I thought this forum was "The Grey Nomads Forum".

Sure that ute driver in the video displayed poor driver skill, but if the truckie was trying a payback, he should not, because the  result could have been more severe.

gold dandelion wrote:

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In the Asian countries small always gives away to big and big gives away to bigger.

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Common sense, Robert. This why there are weight divisions in various sports such as boxing, different grades in real football (Rugby), and different classes in motor racing etc.

However, always there is some supposedly mature clown who drives a 6 ton car/caravan combination that is possibly 13 metres long (?) who wants to argue with a 60 ton truck, or bigger, that is 26 metres long, or bigger, with the Big gear being 205 ton, 60 metres long with 110 wheels. 

Last year there was some sort of a thread about giving way to trucks on the many bush roads that have a narrow central strip of bitumen, with gravel on either side. Simple logic, common sense, and a natural instinct for survival would dictate that as a large truck approaches a car/caravan combination, then the car/caravan would move off the central bitumen to allow the truck safe passage..

Not this fella. No way was he going to display any sense of intelligence. No way was he going to display common courtesy. No way was he going to move. No way. His plan of attack was to stop on the bitumen until the truck also was stopped, then, and only then, would he go on to the gravel to go around the truck. Derrrrrr.

Heavily laden trucks simply cannot go off the central bitumen strip if they are to remain right side up. Enough for now. Cheers

P.S In the bush, on dirt roads it is easy to spot, half a a kilometre away, the locals and people who know how to drive, as they immediately move off the crown of the road and either stop, or continue in the contour drain area, when they see a truck nearing.

Same with unladen trucks, which move off the crown of the road to allow the heavily laden vehicle to proceed unhindered. 

It's an unwritten law, as is not using those dirt roads when they're soft after heavy rain. 

Common courtesy, with a dose of the common sense which unfortunately is becoming less common. Cheers

P.S When I worked in the bush around Collarenebri, way back, there were two roads out of town towards Rowena, being the Dry Weather road and the  Wet Weather road. 

Unwritten law  said you NEVER used the Dry Weather road after rain. NEVER. And nobody ever did! Cheers