Bloody Freightlines Truck

[Mr Triple]

I was following a Freightlines truck up Johns road CHCH early on friday morning. When we came up to one of the roundabouts he went into the left lane so I took the right.As we went through the bugger cut across into my lane and then back into his.I was going to gun it and pass but glad I didnt, just had one of these feelings.

[200BUSA]

Was it a freight truck or bulk bin?

[sAsLEX]

I was following a Freightlines truck up Johns road CHCH early on friday morning. When we came up to one of the roundabouts he went into the left lane so I took the right.As we went through the bugger cut across into my lane and then back into his.I was going to gun it and pass but glad I didnt, just had one of these feelings.

It might not be awfully correct for him to do so, but some trucks do this as they dont really fit around the tight turns of a roundabout all that well, by cutting across two lanes he can fit through, take note for next time it will happen

[Kickaha]

It might not be awfully correct for him to do so, but some trucks do this as they dont really fit around the tight turns of a roundabout all that well, by cutting across two lanes he can fit through, take note for next time it will happen

Plenty of room on the Johns road roundabouts, he was being a lazy cock

[200BUSA]

The roundabouts on Johns road are plenty big enough for a truck,its just slack driving if he cuts across lanes.

[JATZ]

Buggers think they own the road(RUC's they pay they prolly do) Cruzin through the buller gorge today, leaning over going round a right hander in the middle of my lane lane when one comes round the corner with his drivers wheels on my side of the road:gob:, I swear his trailer had more of a lean on than my bike. Just as well I wasn't fangin it or I would have been riding the white line. had to stop down the road a bit to calm down

[sAsLEX]

Plenty of room on the Johns road roundabouts, he was being a lazy cock


The roundabouts on Johns road are plenty big enough for a truck,its just slack driving if he cuts across lanes.

There is places outside of Auckland?...........



Fair call, thought it might of been a tighter round about, but my warning stands for little roundabouts

[200BUSA]

Were you on the bike going to work?

[Mr Triple]

Was it a freight truck or bulk bin?

It was a freight truck

[T.W.R]

The roundabouts on Johns road are plenty big enough for a truck,its just slack driving if he cuts across lanes.

True depending on what sort of rig it was. But being early morning, supposedly pre-dawn it'd be a long-haul rig, most likely a 3axle B-train.
most possible answer would be he was totally oblivious to having a bike behind him

[Grahameeboy]

Plenty of room on the Johns road roundabouts, he was being a lazy cock

Maybe, however, defensive riding would tell you to back off and give the truck room, and then go past later.

[200BUSA]

Still no excuse - just slack driving. Bent51 knows how its done.

[Mr Triple]

Were you on the bike going to work?

Yep 530am it was he was prob half asleep,but it was dark so my headlight was nice and bright.Got passed him after the roundabout blast him on the horn and gave him the birdy.

[Mr Triple]

True depending on what sort of rig it was. But being early morning, supposedly pre-dawn it'd be a long-haul rig, most likely a 3axle B-train.
most possible answer would be he was totally oblivious to having a bike behind him

You're one hundred persent right... ALL the more reasons he should keep to his own lane. But never mind my bikes all tucked up nice and well at the min isnt it Bill:yes:

[T.W.R]

You're one hundred persent right... ALL the more reasons he should keep to his own lane. But never mind my bikes all tucked up nice and well at the min isnt it Bill:yes:

lols should be parked up ready to be attacked tomorrow morning :yes: geesh I haven't used my impact driver for ages :crazy::innocent: how many bits you want it in :Oops:

[xwhatsit]

It's surprising how many professional drivers are complete shit at driving. Case in point taxi drivers and buses of course, but even though the majority of truckers I encounter are very courteous and doing a great job, you do meet quite a few that seem to be in their own little world.

[Mr Triple]

lols should be parked up ready to be attacked tomorrow morning :yes: geesh I haven't used my impact driver for ages :crazy::innocent: how many bits you want it in :Oops:

You could go and work for freightlines and be come an impact driver:2thumbsup

[T.W.R]

You could go and work for freightlines and be come an impact driver:2thumbsup

:lol: nah those rigs are puppies compared to what I used to drive.

When I saw the thread initially I thought I might be looking at a major repair job for the ER though :rolleyes:

[Subike]

take the extra 10 seconds to let him get past the round about.
Give yourself some room,
cruze past him before the next corner
and let it go.
But no
He got you!
He is in your head , in contol , and you let him.
Ok, he didnt drive like you would like him to drive,
Did you ride well?
Pass on to the next thing in life mate, that drivers already rented space today in your head!

[Ixion]

They all do that. Not just at roundabouts either. I know of one guy killed on a bike when a truck doing just that took him out.

[Quasievil]

As Ex Truckie (last year Macks usually at max weight)

Im going to defend the truckies a bit, its typical if this incident was indeed the truckies fault that people come out generalising all are bad, by the same rational all bikers are dickhead riders, this based on my own experience with bikers passing me cutting me off and lane splitting to close blah blah blah.

end of the day, youre the one that will die, not the truckie, give them heaps of room and add some more, they arent cars they dont handle at all well and they are heavy, think ! dont go around a truck on a roundabout, let him go first and wait, its not uncommon for them to use two lanes on a roundabout, so get used to that fact and live a bit longer :niceone:

[SVboy]

Perhaps Bent51 could tell us what he does for a living. I think you will find he is very well placed to make an informed and educated opinion!!

[BOGAR]

Had the same thing happen to me. had the same thought too. Decided not to go and sure enough he would have hit me if i was going pass. Glad i didn't learn the lesson the hard way.

[Kickaha]

They all do that. Not just at roundabouts either.

They don't "all do that" the guys I know that drive trucks for a living wouldn't do shit like that if they were paid to

Bit like saying all motorcyclists (insert your bit here)do that

[onearmedbandit]

Perhaps Bent51 could tell us what he does for a living. I think you will find he is very well placed to make an informed and educated opinion!!

Hahahhahaha. :lol:

[Nade]

Freightlines eh.....as I have nothing nice to say about them I shall refrain.
And no this is not a generalisation about the heavy transport industry...as I and my family have a vested interest in it.....it is my own opinion formed from watching them myself and hearing from other drivers.

[Mr Triple]

Perhaps Bent51 could tell us what he does for a living. I think you will find he is very well placed to make an informed and educated opinion!!

Yes that is true.. Ok I do drive for a living, 24 years in all, but that's not whats it about. I was in no real danger because I could pick the course he was taking. For some other person, on or in whatever, it may have been a different story. It wasn't about me it's what he did when he is or supposed to be a professional driver. We are not talking about some wheels over the centre line. It's a two lane roundabout, he's in the left lane and I'm in the right line and he straightens his line out criss crossing lanes.

Some are saying that they need to but that's a load of crap. After 24 years and well over 2 million kms I do know what it takes to get a truck around corners. It's similar to bikes, it's all about the right lines.

I am merely writing to inform other bikers to be wary.

[cruza]

Come on Brent , What do you expect...0530 in the morning and a F/L truck, probably still dreaming of straightening those corners out on the kaikoura coast, and got a hard on from cutting another 5mins off his best trip time. Ride to survive , plenty of straight road between the roundabouts. I'm not bad reping F/L's but them and a few others have more than a few driver/operators that display some very poor driving habits. Hell I was in kaikoura the other morning A F/L unit pulled up and this kid with the jeans hanging round his arse, im the man CAT singlet, and gangster cap on , got out......:whistle:.......

[BiK3RChiK]

It's surprising how many professional drivers are complete shit at driving. Case in point taxi drivers and buses of course, but even though the majority of truckers I encounter are very courteous and doing a great job, you do meet quite a few that seem to be in their own little world.

Unfortunately, (don't get that I'm condoning this!) it's the hours they drive. They go onto auto-pilot...

[Quasievil]

A F/L unit pulled up and this kid with the jeans hanging round his arse, im the man CAT singlet, and gangster cap on , got out......:whistle:.......

Oh my god thats just so typical, so he was in a CAT wore the singlet and had a cap on ? fuck me days, so he didnt have a tie and suit !!!
no wonder his dad cut through the round about with dress standards like that !!
Please tell me his Dad wasnt wearing a F/L hi Viz vest or Im writing a complaint

[cruza]

Oh my god thats just so typical, so he was in a CAT wore the singlet and had a cap on ? fuck me days, so he didnt have a tie and suit !!!
no wonder his dad cut through the round about with dress standards like that !!
Please tell me his Dad wasnt wearing a F/L hi Viz vest or Im writing a complaint

It was a piss take quasie, about the std of some of their drivers, it was the young guy driving............you had to be there, :rolleyes:... brought a smile to my face. I'm a truckie myself.

[Quasievil]

It was a piss take quasie, about the std of some of their drivers, it was the young guy driving............you had to be there, :rolleyes:... brought a smile to my face. I'm a truckie myself.

Yeah mate I know, Im taking the piss :hug:

[Badjelly]

end of the day, youre the one that will die, not the truckie, give them heaps of room and add some more, they arent cars they dont handle at all well and they are heavy, think ! dont go around a truck on a roundabout, let him go first and wait, its not uncommon for them to use two lanes on a roundabout, so get used to that fact and live a bit longer :niceone:

And taxis. It's not uncommon for them to use 2 lanes at a roundabout, so give them heaps of room too.