Re: Burnley Tunnel-vision

Jeßus wrote:

>> 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.
> 

You don't have to think too hard to figure out why that happens, in a 
car you can accelerate quickly so pulling out into a stream of traffic 
is easy, not so easy with a large heavily loaded truck, I've sat at an 
intersection for 10mins waiting for a gap and no one will let you in so 
at the first sign of a small gap you pull out into the traffic which of 
course causes the traffic to have slow down or brake, sometimes there is 
no other way.
Believe it or not when I was training for my HC license about 4 yrs ago 
the instructor told me to do exactly that after I'd been waiting for a 
long time to do a RH turn.

> 
> 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.
> 
That usually has very little to do with it, see above.

> It only takes one a day to pull this **** on you to make your opinion of

> steering wheel attendants what it is...

Think about why it happens and your opinion will change, I never have 
those problems with trucks when I'm driving my ute or car because I can 
anticipate what a truck driver will do in a given situation, if car 
drivers were taught about heavy trucks then IMO a lot of these sorts of 
problems wouldn't exist.
BTW I gave up truck driving a couple of weeks ago so I don't care:-)



Daryl