Bloody Freightlines Truck

[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 geesh I haven't used my impact driver for ages how many bits you want it in

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

[T.W.R]

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

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

[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

[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.

[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.............

[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.............

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