Re: Burnley Tunnel-vision

the fonz wrote:
> On Mar 6, 11:59 pm, "George W Frost" <fro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> When you are driving a truck for a living and you have got a bit of
speed up, around
>> 80 kph or so, you see a hill ahead of you and you plant the foot to get
you up and
>> over the hill, when there is another vehicle ahead of you going slower,
you look to
>> see if there is room to pass, if so, then you do and get over the hill
instead of
>> being held up behind the slower vehicle, which could hold you back five
minutes in
>> your travel times, then for each other slow vehicle, add another five
minutes and
>> there you have , over a time travel of two hours, you are held back
maybe twenty
>> mnutes or half an hour, so you go out and pass the slower vehicle
because time is
>> money and you don't get paid by time, you get paid for the trip.
>> The average car driver is usually on the way home as to the times you
are talking
>> about, so they have made their money for the day while the truck driver
is still
>> working
> 
> this is not what i see in the tunnel.
> 
> no one is seriously complaining about trucks that hold their speed.
> i'm talking about the ones that are coming along at 80 km/h in the RH
> lane, and just can't hold that speed up the hill, presumably due to
> being loaded up. they down****ft until they're doing 30 km/h and hold
> everyone up.
> 
> what you've described is a completely different scenario, and one in
> which no one gets held up.
> 
> the reality is, some truckies just don't give a **** about other road
> users. call them cowboys if you like but they're out there.


so where are you going at this time of the day Fonz??
on ya way home
what's the rush???
wow a whole 30 seconds taken from you
those bastard truck drivers
not like you are following them for 20 minutes is it
****ing impatient wankers like you are the problem on the roads

why should one truck that can manage to do 30kph be forced to follow one 
that can only manage 20kph up the hill

you'd have a brain melt down if you had to travel the Toowoomba range 
every day then wouldn't you
trucks in both lanes doing 15kph
going up AND down the range

now go have a good cry and a lie down


Kev