Disgusting HGV drivers

Mash369

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Having just witnessed the rubbish left after an HGV driver had overnight stop at a layby on A75, we are absolute appalled, especially when they also left their excrement complete with wipes as well.

I hope motorhomes don't get blamed for this.
 
Please don't think all lorry drivers are the same. My husband has been a lorry drivers for 30 years and he has the same attitude he has while motorhoming and that is to leave no trace.
 
Herbenny said:
Please don't think all lorry drivers are the same. My husband has been a lorry drivers for 30 years and he has the same attitude he has while motorhoming and that is to leave no trace.
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Thank you for upholding us hgv guys ,but I have noticed the crap left behind by some unfortunately
 
I know it's not all, but when you have 2 HGVs stopping and 2 new piles of rubbish 1 of which was with extras🤢. Surely this behaviour is the reason why the "no overnight" signs go up.

Believe me if it where motorhomers I would just as quickly complained. But we can be easily blamed as surely it can't be the "Knights of the road". Just bonkers why people behave this way.
 
Mash369 said:
I know it's not all, but when you have 2 HGVs stopping and 2 new piles of rubbish 1 of which was with extras🤢. Surely this behaviour is the reason why the "no overnight" signs go up.

Believe me if it where motorhomers I would just as quickly complained. But we can be easily blamed as surely it can't be the "Knights of the road". Just bonkers why people behave this way.
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No overnighting signs don't usually go up in laybys, which I feel should be left to the lorries that have to stop before they complete 9 hours of driving in the day or face prosecution. Why on earth would someone on holiday want to stop next to a busy road, knowing that it is likely to be used by lorries that don't have toilet facilities on board?
 
Mash369 said:
Having just witnessed the rubbish left after an HGV driver had overnight stop at a layby on A75, we are absolute appalled, especially when they also left their excrement complete with wipes as well.

I hope motorhomes don't get blamed for this.
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when the tortoise head appears what can one do.:scared:
 
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I know alot of lorry drivers, I've been one myself and to be fair they don't all leave crap in laybys, but alot do.
As they state, they're stuck to what the law says on the hours they can drive. So they can't garrantee to pull up where there are public loos or bins.
The bit I can't understand is most truckers are on there own, why not have a passenger seat that they can lift the base off and have a portaloo under it, then empty it back at HQ or make some service points for toilet waste and rubbish along all major roads. That would maybe help us in motorhomes too. Even if motorhomes needed to pay a small fee to empty.

It isnt good in a truck when you are touching cloth and there are no loos that you can park close to. So why they don't have them onboard beats me..

Only last year we pulled up in a layby, I walked round to passenger side and stood in a very fresh pile of human sh^t. It,s worse than standing in dog muck and that's bad enough. At least they could have a bucket and bag and dispose in a bin if need be and not crap on the side of a layby...
As you can imagine I wasnt best pleased. Like all the bottles of pee that they leave behind. Surely they're not still driving as they pee in these bottles, so why not get out and pee in the verge and then dispose of the bottle correctly...

Rant over....
 
It really shows the difference between UK and Europe,truckers have facilities over there but almost nothing over here,I'm not defending the fact that they leave mess and 💩,but what would you do if caught out knowing that you can't simply drive off and find a loo? You almost never see this in Europe
 
antiquesam said:
No overnighting signs don't usually go up in laybys, which I feel should be left to the lorries that have to stop before they complete 9 hours of driving in the day or face prosecution. Why on earth would someone on holiday want to stop next to a busy road, knowing that it is likely to be used by lorries that don't have toilet facilities on board?
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But they could have toilets onboard. They nearly always have an empty passenger seat. They should have a removable base like landrover had, and they should fit a loo under the seats....
 
Asterix said:
It really shows the difference between UK and Europe,truckers have facilities over there but almost nothing over here,I'm not defending the fact that they leave mess and ��,but what would you do if caught out knowing that you can't simply drive off and find a loo? You almost never see this in Europe
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Exactly there should be regular service points..

Just to be clear tho, I'm not saying they're disgusting, sadly they have no other choice. Apart from getting a bucket and bag which some do already....
 
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Asterix said:
,but what would you do if caught out knowing that you can't simply drive off and find a loo? You almost never see this in Europe
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At least have the common decency and politeness to dispose of it in a sanitary and none offensive way perhaps??

No excuse at all for just shitting at the side of a road... Or pissing in a bottle and lobbing it out of the window at the first opportunity.
Obviously the use a bottle whilst they are driving... Then can't be bothered to empty it and bin the bottle.

Scutters frankly.
 
Poo

Surely it cannot beyond the wit of these people to be prepared and crap in a container of some type and pee in bottle which they can then dispose of in suitable place. On the other hand perhaps they are just morons who care little for anyone else or the environment.

I expect the later, I wonder if the OP noticed fifty were UK registered vehicle or otherwise.

On a different but similar note. I remember stopping at services on the M4 a while ago, we stopped near some grass and scrubby bushes near the lorry park to let the dog have a walk, the smell or urine and sight of what was obviously human waste was overpowering. Strange thing was the toilet facilities which were open 24 hrs were closer to the parked lories than the grass and bushes. Lazy swine springs to mind.
 
yorkshireCPLE said:
But they could have toilets onboard. They nearly always have an empty passenger seat. They should have a removable base like landrover had, and they should fit a loo under the seats....
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That's a matter for the owner, or the manufacturer not the driver. Drivers don't always drive the same vehicle.
 
Asterix said:
It really shows the difference between UK and Europe,truckers have facilities over there but almost nothing over here,I'm not defending the fact that they leave mess and 💩,but what would you do if caught out knowing that you can't simply drive off and find a loo? You almost never see this in Europe
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Unfortunately the litter left in truck areas in Europe is disgraceful . Even where there are bins . Never come across the unmentionable stuff though
 
We seem to comparing the UK to the rest of Europe, but we have a large minority of European trucks driving around the UK and I don't imagine they are totally innocent of the problems being talked about. Well I know they aren't.
 
I've seen plenty of laybys in europe where you only have to go 5 metres up the verge or into woods and you're ankle deep in turd, and not just from truck drivers. Even though they do have a lot more laybys and picnic areas with loos than we have over here.
 
antiquesam said:
That's a matter for the owner, or the manufacturer not the driver. Drivers don't always drive the same vehicle.
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Yes I realise that, but you would think manufactures would do something. Until then drivers could bag it and bin it.... doesn't matter which truck they were in then.
 
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