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I know we've already had bad drivers but can I particularly draw attention to lorry drivers who think they can go faster than they actually can, therefore endangering all around them when they overtake a similarly slow lorry :angry: On my way to Swindon this morning on the A420 I almost had to stop my car because upon turning a bend found myself confronted with one lorry overtaking another and coming straight towards me on my side of the road :angry: I hate it when lorry drivers overtake on a dual carriageway too, thus leaving a tail back of drivers who were merrily pootling along at 70 mph one minute and then stuck behind a lorry incapable of going faster than 50 mph the next :angry:
 
Now, that is a sore one for me too, Griffin.

Do HGVs have speed inhibitors that prevent them from doing more than 60 or 65mph?

I'm usually very patient and forgiving on the road but I really do not like it when lorry drivers - who all claim to be expert drivers - treat their fellow road-users with utter contempt: a cursory signal simultaneous to moving out regardless of whether there's enough room is bad enough but to overtake on a two-lane carriageway when the difference in speed to the lorry they're overtaking is less than slow walking pace causing lengthy tailbacks is simply moronic. It's different if the road is clear for a long way behind when they start their manoeuvre and they end up taking longer than they anticipated but are committed to the move but when things are busy they should at least let those who can move on at speed get ahead.

The really annoying thing is that this tends to happen most on inclines when both HGVs are losing speed. I've seen my speed cut to 20mph for several hundred yards just becaue some d*ckhead is desperate to gain a couple of yards on the lorry in front.
 
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People who say after a race "I should have backed him"
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.....worse ~ people who say "I should OF backed him" :angy: [/b][/quote]
Arrrggghhhhh - you're not wrong there!!!
 
Originally posted by Desert Orchid@Feb 1 2006, 03:40 PM
Now, that is a sore one for me too, Griffin.

Do HGVs have speed inhibitors that prevent them from doing more than 60 or 65mph?

I'm usually very patient and forgiving on the road but I really do not like it when lorry drivers - who all claim to be expert drivers - treat their fellow road-users with utter contempt: a cursory signal simultaneous to moving out regardless of whether there's enough room is bad enough but to overtake on a two-lane carriageway when the difference in speed to the lorry they're overtaking is less than slow walking pace causing lengthy tailbacks is simply moronic. It's different if the road is clear for a long way behind when they start their manoeuvre and they end up taking longer than they anticipated but are committed to the move but when things are busy they should at least let those who can move on at speed get ahead.

The really annoying thing is that this tends to happen most on inclines when both HGVs are losing speed. I've seen my speed cut to 20mph for several hundred yards just becaue some d*ckhead is desperate to gain a couple of yards on the lorry in front.
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If you had a brain you would be dangerous.... :o yes lorries are governed to a certain speed/revs and it's nigh impossible to pass another LGV... if you take an Artic being 56ft long and being 44 tonnes gross weight trying to pass another, it won't happen 99 times out of an 100.unless they cause an accident. :o

Some years ago in Fishguard west Wales, I had to stay over.. I got in conversation in a pub with an RAF guy and he asks me "why do Lorries run in convoys??"

I said no mate they don't its just sods law, you work it out its not possible to pass another if your doing 55 mph and he's doing the same that’s the reason.....

Very similar to caravans being towed in the summer on a country road!! You try and get past one.......... :rolleyes: :P
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Feb 1 2006, 08:50 PM
yes lorries are governed to a certain speed/revs and it's nigh impossible to pass another LGV... if you take an Artic being 56ft long and being 44 tonnes gross weight trying to pass another, it won't happen 99 times out of an 100.unless they cause an accident. :o
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It might theoretically be nigh-on impossible for an HGV to overtake another one but it happens all the time. Try driving on the A34 - the traffic constantly grinds to a standstill as yet another ignorant truck driver attempts to overtake another, usually on a hill. Trust me Merlin, it's exceptionally infuriating, not least because as you point out it is difficult for HGVs to overtake each other so it invariably takes around 5 minutes just for one lorry to overtake the other. As it's only a dual carriageway it snarls up the route for miles.

Incidentally, don't a lot of HGVs have limiters that can be over-ridden? My housemate's fiancé was a driver for one of the large racing transport companies - he told me it could be overridden, at least the lorries he drove could be - once they hit the 67(?)mph limit a light came on the dashboard but he could simply ignore it & carry on. We made it back from Ayr in a 9-horse lorry with 6 horses in around an hour and a half less than it took us to get up there - about 8 hours, If I recall correctly! He was desperate to get back to the fiancé as we'd been up at Ayr for 3 days!
 
S/L yes a good many years back it was possible (I used to always carry a few spanners and open my artic unit pump and close it down on reaching base) but they calibrate the pump now and seal it with the type of seal that's on your electric meter so no more fiddling the speed...

And they have become a lot more stricter with LGV vehicles with regular checks now, but being that your ferrying horses they would not normally keep you waiting to check your motor over, re. tyres, tachometer, fuel (your not using the prohibited one red diesel)etc etc

With tacho's on now everything is registered if you stop for a pee that shows up too (no not with your wet hands :lol: ) but on the graph/tacho that you stopped for ex number of minutes ....

AND LIVESTOCK/HORSES are partially exempt to some of the laws because of the nature of the goods.......

Some companies (my son in laws for instance) have trackers on, and mobile phones are given to the drivers too, for safety as well as for them to spy on you!! to see your not fiddling i.e. getting back loads for yourself :P there's a fiddle in most jobs huh? Or there was............
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Feb 1 2006, 07:50 PM
If you had a brain you would be dangerous.... :
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As far as I'm concerned, Merlin, that's a highly personal comment and makes you fair game for anything on which you offer a stupid/ill-considered/uneducated comment. I can assure you I have a lot more ammo at my disposal than you.
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Feb 1 2006, 07:50 PM
if you take an Artic being 56ft long and being 44 tonnes gross weight trying to pass another, it won't happen 99 times out of an 100.unless they cause an accident.
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I drive the motorway every day. There isn't a single day when one one idiot HGV driver doesn't try to overtake another on an incline, often on a two-carriageway stretch.
 
DO: I think that should be 'there isn't a single day when one idiot HGV driver DOESN'T try to overtake, blah, blah... '. Otherwise, you have a pretty annoyance-free driving experience your way, unlike here, where the wonderful switchback at Handcross is usually a good whizz ruined by such unsporting tactics. Instead of a rather blurry 80 mph which all of us would prefer as the driving highlight of our day, we're reduced to 40 mph or less while the HGVs grind, growl, and crash their gears trying to take each other on. No HGV should be allowed so much as a wheel over the left lane's line.
 
Thanks, Krizon. I've duly edited it.

This morning's count was:

Two instances of HGVs overtaking another on a two-lane motorway carriage incline.

Three instances of simultaneous signalling and manoeuvring, in one case I was less than a lorry-length behind the HGV's rear light panel doing 70mph and a BMW was overtaking me on the outside lane.
 
Lorry drivers are the lowest of the low. Yesterday on the way to work i entered a
roundabout, and a very big lorry just carried straight on even though i was on his right. I had to slam on whilst on the roundabout.
I was seething, if i hadn`t been in a rush i would have been tempted to follow him, wait for a red traffic light and introduce my little friend
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to his tyres.
 
This is getting more like an obsession, Latey. Do you want online counselling? I can recommend an eggsellent psychiatrist.
 
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