Re: Burnley Tunnel-vision

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:45:56 +1100, Andy blathered on in :aus.cars
> In article <13t7ils6svlv391@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Daryl Walford <dwalford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Jeãus 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.
> 
> 
> Pretty much spot on.  Also, there would be less cars having their 
> bonnets run over due to impatient drivers trying to squeeze past semis 
> turning right on roundabouts :-)
> 
> 
>> BTW I gave up truck driving a couple of weeks ago so I don't care:-)
> 
> LOL :-)
> 
> Andy.

I spend considerable time in my extremely entertaining and therefore
piss-poor pay rated jobbie.
Driving in major industrial areas with trucks wall-to-wall is considerably
safer than mixing it with standard traffic. 
Why?
Because everyone there understands the physics of vehicles - they have to
or they aren't there any more;-)