Mashed up caravans

not trucker bashing at all, we were on about speed limiters and the pros and cons of them been fitted but it just seems a bit silly when some say it causes more problems when fitted to shall we say the heavier type of vehicle when we all know they are there for a reason
 
mandrake said:
dident say you personaly was irresponsible i meant the post.read it again you may well be a good driver and no i dont have a hgv license and yes i only spent 2 years in the passengers seat but i still stand by my post that there is a large majority of idiots behind a hgv wheel and i have also witnessed the carnage those idiots cause first hand . but then again they walk away sometimes!!! the usual saying of wagon drivers is who is gonna argue with me in this[/QUOTE

yes a lot of irresponsible h g v drivers are POLISH just look at the accident stats i agree that there are some bad h g v drivers but in any walk of life you get bad ones its a pity as 99% of us truckers are pro drivers and take pride in our work as other people in other jobs do
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
wigan pier said:
yes a lot of irresponsible h g v drivers are POLISH just look at the accident stats i agree that there are some bad h g v drivers but in any walk of life you get bad ones its a pity as 99% of us truckers are pro drivers and take pride in our work as other people in other jobs do
Click to expand...
Right, here in Belgium it's a major problem. All north>south and east>west traffic comes through here. It is not only the Polish, but also Bulgarans, Roumanian truckers, driving for slave wages.:mad: They drive on for 24 h swap trucks and away for another 24h (tacho's: ?). Meters high signs : 'NO cruise control'; and yet every day one of them hits the end of a queu at full speed.:eek:
We have to avoid our own motorways in the week: especially Kortijk>Gent>Antwerp and Antwerp>Liege>Aachen. Please avoid Belgian motorways during the week with your MH :mad: Police cannot coop anymore with the problems :eek:
By the way: general strike tomorrow monday. Public transport will be lame
(trains, trams, buses) also almost all schools and public offices. No strikes
for banks and major industries (they had a bad week ?). Nevertheless it will be a major traffic problem (more than everey days !).
(could I find asilum in the UK ?):rolleyes:
 
Hi Belgian, you are most welcome to come over here!! :D :D You wouldn't need asylum! :cool: You could stay for the Hayfield meet. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: JIM.
 
I like these comments about the old Eastern Block drivers :D

I did have a website that showed you how to obtain any type of licence that you wanted including what used to be called Class 1 - and it worked

Now where did I put my benzedrine, Red Bull and Pro Plus...

До свидания я тебя люблю

Boris
 
Back to the original post. Poor driving whilst towing a caravan isn't always a bad thing! I now have a very nice 4 year old crash damaged caravan to break as a donor for my new self build project.
Or am I just being selfish? ...Probably.;)
 
baloothebear said:
One wonders how fast the Road trains get up to in Oz: bet they crack on
Click to expand...

Doing about 70mph down the Stewart highway in Western Australia. Not seen a car for 3 hours, then a roadtrain was coming up fast behind me about 5 miles back!
He kept gaining till I swerved into the outback, turned of the engine, shut the airvents.
Then he passed, all 5 trailers, the earth shook, I sat there for about 20 mins while the dust settled, then poreing with sweat and dehydrating I got my ostrage feather out of the boot and managed to clear enough screen to continue.
It was not nice.
Met a group of these drivers in a stop near Perth, they run east to west, living on uppers, then sleep on downers, then start again.
Makes our truckers look like angels:rolleyes:
 
One wonders how fast the Road trains get up to in Oz: bet they crack on
Click to expand...

No - all heavy vehicles (including my converted bus) are speed limited to 100kmph (62.5mph to you) and multi-combinations (road trains) are limited to 50mph in some states, 55 in others and 60mph in another.

Was overtaken by one road train a couple of days ago - had four trailers, each as long as a normal semi trailer. More than 50 metres long. I was mooching along at only 50mph for a change and he went past at about 55. Took quite a long time for him to get past - and this was on a pretty narrow two lane road with crumbling edges and the steering on my 30-year old bus is none too precise at the best of times..

Guess your equivalent would be some of your A roads with stone fences and hedges growing right up to the edge of the bitumen.

Here is my rig in front of a fuel road train - one of the smaller ones

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14915469@N06/2998159761/in/photostream/
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Should have mentioned, that was back in the 70s, no doubt the aussis have become a bit PC like us since then:rolleyes::(
 
Yes, I knew you were talking about the good old days.
Remember a trip in north Queensland along a dirt road that was a couple of chains wide. Whenever a truck approached, trick was to get over to the upwind side of the road to get away from the dust. Overtaking was just about impossible if the wind was blowing the wrong way and more than one traveller driving behind came to a sticky end when the truck in front stopped, but the dust hung around worse than a pea-souper. Even the Northern Territory, last outpost of fast drivers, realised last year that an unlimited speed limit (no - that makes no sense, but you know what I mean) and Australia's (maybe the world's) highest per capita consumption of beer, plus heaps of feral animals ranging in size from camels downward all combined to give a very high death rate. The main road is now 130km/h and the rest 100.
The bad old days are gone forever.
 
Not so sure the bad old days are gone! was in WA about 8 years ago and the biggest problem was the fact that after 7pm about half the car drivers are pissed! and they even brag about it.
I started to make sure I was parked up by nightfall.:eek:
Did drive a Hyandu accent up to the Northern terr. flat out at about 110mph, long straight road, saw a dark dust cloud and thought," what the hell, just drive straight through"
Would never have believed how much damage locusts can do to a car! or how scarry it is being stuck in the middle of nowhere with 2 litres of water and a very sick car.
Got picked up by a farmer, with the great line "I know whats wrong with your car mate"
I said "what"
he said very serious "its fxxxxd"
Love the aussi sence of humour! would still have shot the bugger if Id had a gun though:D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who viewed this discussion (Total:0)

Back
Top