How not to join a motorway!

JustinR1979

Captaincodpiece wrote: »

At 30moh the highway code says 23 metres for a car.

Mira say a laden 42 tonne artic and trailer can stop in 27 metres.

I'd say trucks brake better than you think.

I sometimes wonder how the tread stays on the tyres.
Brakes have come on a long long way in the last 10-20 years.
The mid 90's lorries I drove you had to stand on the brakes when loaded and still not a lot happened, modern ones you barely touch on and get better effort


They also had to improve going from 38 to 44 tonnes, artics have several ways of slowing, and I'm sure the suspension helps in some way as they do stop very quickly now.

shammyjack

Iceweasel wrote: »

Quite obviously most of the folks who have posted on this thread have never driven a truck or even been a passenger in one.

It's like asking the captain of a massive container ship to give way to a weekend sailor in a dingy who is claiming that 'steam gives way to sail'.

The car driver was a !!!! - pure and simple.

Worked on the Circus in my 20s , drove an AEC Matador ( ex RAF) with 3 trailers built on extended and widened bomb trailer chassis . Great on motorways but a pig on winding snaking roads. Tight roundabouts had to uncouple , take them round in singles and re-couple to stop it going through the flower beds like a 6 furrow plough . Happy days !

tbourner

JustinR1979 wrote: »

they do stop very quickly now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6IXQoYY58

Rover_Driver

BigSaver69 wrote: »

Therefore the lorry driver is just a guilty as the car driver.

The vehicle on the main line should maintain a constant speed and direction to allow the merging vehicle to anticipate what is happening at the time and to merge safely in a suitable gap.
If you see how close the car is when it moves in front of the lorry, it doesn't and gives the lorry driver little chance to avoid the accident.

Babbawah

I only drive a lorry very occasionally but I've learned enough to have an enormous respect for full time lorry drivers.

Reading this thread has given me an insight into just how arrogant, ignorant & just plain stupid most car drivers are.

DTDfanBoy

Babbawah wrote: »

I only drive a lorry very occasionally but I've learned enough to have an enormous respect for full time lorry drivers.

Reading this thread has given me an insight into just how arrogant, ignorant & just plain stupid most car drivers are.

Really, most car drivers are arrogant ignorant and stupid, I'm completely baffled as to why you'd reach that conclusion after reading this thread.

If I was to apply the same random generalisation to your post I'd have to state that most part time lorry drivers were dropped on their head as a baby, and while I'm certain that that happened to one of them I'd struggle to say that it happened to most :cool:

robatwork

Captaincodpiece wrote: »

I don't read the fail, probably for the same reasons as yourself.

I said it looked like a set up when I first saw it and they reported it as such in May this year.

I do t see how it's shoddy journalism by highlighting the lengths these criminals will go to. If the fail were to report criminal nicking live cable from train lines would you think that shoddy?

It's a shoddy article as it says the car flipped on its side.

Captaincodpiece

robatwork wrote: »

It's a shoddy article as it says the car flipped on its side.

Proves a good point, you and our anti Mail friend read more than I did.
A few lines of the fail !!!!!! is more than enough for me.

UsernameAlreadyExists

It was a telegraph article. :huh:

Captaincodpiece

welfayre wrote: »

That video's been doing the rounds for while, first time I saw it it was supposedly part of a "crash for cash" scam.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2643427/164-bogus-claims-day-push-insurance-premiums-Rocketing-cash-crash-fraud-costs-driver-90.html

Read the whole thread.

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

It was a telegraph article. :huh: