Re: Burnley Tunnel-vision

Noddy wrote:
> "Kev" <kevcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:47d3dc82$0$4471$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> so why is there no daily complaint about some ignorant holding up
traffic 
>> for 20 klms on the highway but trucks do the same thing and it's "oh
those 
>> pill popping drugged up truckies causing traffic chaos should be
banished 
>> to a left lane only"
> 
> Cars that do it are just as much of a pain in the arse, but generally
when 
> cars do it they move out of the way a hell of a lot quicker. I don't
care 
> what you drive, there's *nothing* more frustrating than trucks spread
across 
> all lanes having a 7 kilometer long "drag race", with the fastest of
them 
> being walking pace quicker than the rest.

Although I've never travelled this Tunnel I doubt the hill climb out is 
7klms, what is it 300-400metres? how long does that bit take to climb?
but it's fine for cars to be 3 lanes wide and not passing anyone
singling out trucks again

> 
> Incidentally, *all* slow vehicles should keep left. Not just trucks.

so why is everyone singling out truck drivers?

>> so do all those car drivers who can, but don't, maintain the speed
limit 
>> get the same, hardly, I bet there are far more cars doing it than
trucks 
>> too
> 
> Of course you would, but then you're a truck driver, and truck drivers
can 
> do no wrong in your eyes.

Hardly, a lot truck drivers a complete retards, and interstater/linehaul 
drivers are some of the worst, but by far the worst are the mud carters

> To me a bad driver is a bad driver. Regardless of what they're driving.

Again so why single out truck drivers?
no one gets in here and complains about the slow cars that CAN maintain 
speed but choose not to in the Tunnel

>> All day every day, in fact the Companies I work for insist that we make

>> extra allowances and wear the **** slung at us by the retards that we 
>> manage NOT to kill by making allowances for their ****ed driving
> 
> By doing what exactly?

>> you've never see truck having to brake heavily for clowns who just
"have 
>> to get past that truck", all too common, much more common than cars
having 
>> to brake suddenly for trucks
> 
> How do you know?

>> So why do you thing they have to force their way out into traffic like 
>> that????
> 
> They have to ****ingwell *wait* like everyone else.
> 
> Jesus Christ, this is *exactly* the problem. They're too ****ing
impatient 
> to get moving at a snail's pace so they have to push in and make
everyone 
> else around them give way to *them*.


so you think a truck driver should wait until there is room enough for 
him pull out and get up to the speed of the traffic before the traffic 
catches up so no one has to slow down, that is never going to happen on 
any major road at any time of the day, even a 300 metre brak in traffic 
is never going to be enough, by the time the truck pulls out, turns and 
gets going cars are already climbing all over the back of it

>> have a think about the last time you saw anyone give a truck a chance
to 
>> get out of anywhere yet they will have no problem slowing a bit so a
car 
>> can get out
>>
>> getting to merge into any stream of traffic is usually a force your way
in 
>> type scenario because no one will let the trucks in, yet they have no 
>> problem letting a few cars in
>>
>> sit and watch at any merge point and observe the attitude change when a

>> truck appears
> 
> Mate, you live in a fantasy world where truck drivers are heroes and 
> everyone else is a **** :)

Don't ever make the mistake of believing that I think of truck drivers 
as heroes, they are just not all the image that a lot of people have of
them
No I live in a world where ****s are ****s no matter what they drive

> I can tell you right now as sure as I'm sitting here that if your
average 
> truck driver was the conscientious & accommodating driver you make them
out 
> to be we wouldn't be having this discussion.

It works both ways Noddy and you(and others here) haven't shown that you 
are any more accommodating than the truck drivers you are complaining
about

>> not unlike most car drivers
>> what was that about double standards
> 
> It certainly goes both ways, but clearly not in your view.

It certainly goes both ways, but clearly not in your view.

Kev