Don't mess with trucks on the Thames coast road

[Chooky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRL9-dyMjg

[sil3nt]

Don't mess with trucks on any road. They aren't going to put themselves in a ditch for impatient motorists.

[slofox]

There's a good chance that my intelligence is severely lacking here but I can't see WTF actually happened.

[caspernz]

Don't mess with trucks on any road. They aren't going to put themselves in a ditch for impatient motorists.

As a truck driver of 20+ yrs, that above line is one version of what's in our training manual.

[unstuck]

Some people think that trucks must handle like a car, dumbasses.

[Virago]

Is there something hidden in the video...?

[Blackbird]

Graeme,

One of the Te Kouma mussel trucks eh? Actually, the professional truck drivers on the Coro-Thames coast road are the most courteous people you could wish for. They'll pull over and let you pass as soon as they can - no point in trying to force the issue and the time saving is minimal anyway. You can guarantee that one car in two is going to cut every blind corner, one motorcyclist in 3 and just about every fuc*ing rental camper van on the road . It's nice living in Paradise but I wish that the bike had photon torpedoes fitted every time I ride down to Thames

Geoff

[caspernz]

Haha, every part of the country has a segment of road similar to the Coromandel Coast. Down Welly way it's the Rimutaka Hill Rd, the irony being that the Rimu Hill is two lane all the way....not that it's always treated that way.

[pzkpfw]

There's a good chance that my intelligence is severely lacking here but I can't see WTF actually happened.

Likewise. There's the truck, a car coming the other way on a very narrow bit of road, then it looks like the camera gets dropped, then we see a ute and a car off the side of the road, seemingly in a different place.

Well, that's what I saw.

[BoristheBiter]

Likewise. There's the truck, a car coming the other way on a very narrow bit of road, then it looks like the camera gets dropped, then we see a ute and a car off the side of the road, seemingly in a different place.

Well, that's what I saw.

All i saw was a truck having to go down a road that is too small for it to do safely.
Many of roads like this through out NZ