Re: Burnley Tunnel-vision

Daryl Walford wrote:
> 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.

Sometimes I truly wish I had a video recording system in the car for 
situations like these, it'd do what words (and my own laziness) fail to 
get across.

Like the truck the other day that deliberately cut me off when I was 
merging  onto the highway, for absolutely no advantage to himself 
whatsoever in terms of time. I was actually ahead of him by a good 20 
metres and all traffic was coming to a stop right ahead dude to 
roadworks, so I saw no reason to *speed up*... ahh but not this guy, oh 
no. And he most definitely saw me, and made sure I was forced off to the 
side. It was no accident.

>> 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.

I do of course think, and 9 times out 10 anticipate. But doing so 
doesn't change the nature of certain truck drivers, especially when 
there are so many trucks on the road here.

> BTW I gave up truck driving a couple of weeks ago so I don't care:-)

And the ones that still drive don't care either! :)

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