Re: Burnley Tunnel-vision

Noddy wrote:
> "Kev" <kevcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:47d36978$0$12282$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> And yet it's perfectly fine for some retard who CAN manage to maintain 
>> 100kph but choses to plug along at 70 holding up everyone else for 20
klms 
>> but a truck holds up some cars for 100 metres and they should be hung
out 
>> to dry
> 
> Who said it was perfectly okay?
> 
> Slower vehicles should keep left, *regardless* of what they are. You
seem to 
> be suggesting that it's selfish for some car driving nut to sit in the
right 
> lane and hold everyone behind him up, but if a truck driver does it then

> it's perfectly okay because he's not holding people up for long.
> 
> Here's the scoop buddy: I've *never* seen a truck go through that tunnel
in 
> the right lane and only be in the right lane for 100 meters while
passing 
> other traffic. A couple of *kilometers* at the minmum, and then the
mouth 
> breathing mungbeans wonder why all the cars behind then give them the 
> finger.
> 
>> get real
> 
> You could do with a stiff dose of that yourself I imagine.
> 
>> **** them then
>> bunch of whinging impatient wankers who might be 30 seconds late
getting 
>> home
> 
> The double standard is so thick here you could snick someone's head off
with 
> it :)
> 
>> Always the Truck that has to make allowances, heaven forbid a car
driver 
>> might make allowances for a truck
> 
> Hmm..
> 
> I can't remember the last time I saw a truck making allowances for a
car. 
> I've seen *plenty* of occurrences where cars have had to brake *heavily*
to 
> avoid hitting a semi coming out of a driveway into a stream of steadily 
> moving traffic with the obvious intention of making the cars give way to
him 
> because he's bigger.

Barely a day goes by that this doesn't happen to me if I have to head 
north to Wollongong. I'm serious.

> The fact that a lot of truck drivers are ignorant impatient arseholes 
> probably has a lot to do with that.

Some of them either truly believe they own the road, or more likely they 
just don't give a ****, because as you say, they're bigger.

It only takes one a day to pull this **** on you to make your opinion of 
steering wheel attendants what it is...