Lorry Drivers HGV Licence HoldersBeware (1 Viewer)

[Flyingscotsman2]

The initial post would have been far better headed "Any driving licence holder". It's all to easy to direct blame for bad driving habits on HGV drivers alone. Many HGV drivers do in excess of 1200 miles a week on every type of road and are true professionals. There's far more bad car and van drivers out there.

Here here keep on trucking. Truckers do it best.

 

[cruiser]

we always get picked on first. its when you know police are going to nick you. they say you should know better. [because you are a professional lorry driver. and they only say it so they can stick more money on the charge.]

 

[Flyingscotsman2]

we always get picked on first. its when you know police are going to nick you. they say you should know better. [because you are a professional lorry driver. and they only say it so they can stick more money on the charge.]

I know but most on here can only dream of driving a truck.

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[Bailey58]

Never crossed my mind for a moment that I'd want to drive a truck. I know 4 friends and neighbours who are, or have been, truck drivers and the tales they tell about their daily lives ensures I never will. In Southampton in the afternoon and then being asked to go Bristol to pick up a load on their way home to Norfolk, arriving at a supermarket to join a 3 hour long queue to offload only to be told to wait an hour while the staff have a lunch break or, worse, sent away and told to come back tomorrow. Living away in their cabs all week only seeing their family at weekends. Many may enjoy the life but it's not for me and certainly not the glamorous lifestyle it may be made out to be.

 

[Flyingscotsman2]

Never crossed my mind for a moment that I'd want to drive a truck. I know 4 friends and neighbours who are, or have been, truck drivers and the tales they tell about their daily lives ensures I never will. In Southampton in the afternoon and then being asked to go Bristol to pick up a load on their way home to Norfolk, arriving at a supermarket to join a 3 hour long queue to offload only to be told to wait an hour while the staff have a lunch break or, worse, sent away and told to come back tomorrow. Living away in their cabs all week only seeing their family at weekends. Many may enjoy the life but it's not for me and certainly not the glamorous lifestyle it may be made out to be.

thats uk. All my work was European and Eastern block. None of your supermarket crap for me. Also did North Africa so I seen some great places and met some superstars let me tell u ppl who would do anything for u. The commeraderie was great.

 

[cruiser]

differently no glamor in it. but it was a great job when I first started.

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[Taran_Las]

I know but most on here can only dream of driving a truck.

Why on earth would I want to drive a truck?

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Why on earth would I want to drive a truck?

To be a knight of the road of course..........

I've no desire to drive one either. Spent several years driving 50,000 horsepower ships though; that was quite interesting, but it was very difficult overtaking slightly slower ships. It could take several hours. And those bloody ferries crossing in front of you...............

 

[Taran_Las]

To be a knight of the road of course..........

I've no desire to drive one either. Spent several years driving 50,000 horsepower ships though; that was quite interesting, but it was very difficult overtaking slightly slower ships. It could take several hours. And those bloody ferries crossing in front of you...............

Really?​

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[GJH]

.... So your jab less .....

What's a Sour Jabless? Some sort of weird cocktail?

 

[Flyingscotsman2]

What's a Sour Jabless? Some sort of weird cocktail?

Am not in to cocktails or any other tails but u can fill your boots mate. Live and let live I say......

 

[Simon]

Talking on the phone is not the same as talking to a passenger. Hands free kits are legal. Driving with one hand holding a mobile or a microphone isn't. Rightly so.

The rules cover all electronic equipment such as CB etc as far as I know. Not just phones.

Yet smoking whilst driving is still legal.

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[cruiser]

if you learnt to drive a truck. you may be able to drive your m/home. properly

 

[DuxDeluxe]

if you learnt to drive a truck. you may be able to drive your m/home. properly

Probably - not guaranteed though. Same works the other way, some people are good on one type of vehicle and less good at others. Dawn is pretty good at driving a horse, but less good at driving the van


That was a joke, by the way.........

 

[DBK]

Yet smoking whilst driving is still legal.

It's not the one handedness which is the issue. It is having your brain engaged in something which is not about driving and talking to someone in another place who has no idea what is going on around your vehicle so will continue to chatter away as you plough through a bus queue.

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[vwalan]

mind in some country villages you only get a bus once a day so its not so important there.

 

[Taran_Las]

if you learnt to drive a truck. you may be able to drive your m/home. properly

Oh Really?

 

[GJH]

Am not in to cocktails or any other tails but u can fill your boots mate. Live and let live I say......

If I could be bothered to try to translate that I might have found it of interest.

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[John & Joan]

https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law
Using hands-free devices when driving
You can use hands-free phones, sat navs and 2-way radios when you’re driving or riding. But if the police think you’re distracted and not in control of your vehicle you could still get stopped and penalised.

There has always been an exception in the regulations for the use of hand held microphone for emergency services.

It’s illegal to ride a motorcycle or drive using hand-held phones or similar devices.
The rules are the same if you’re stopped at traffic lights or queuing in traffic.
It’s also illegal to use a hand-held phone or similar device when supervising a learner driver or rider.

Reg. 110 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986:
(1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a road if he is using -
(a) a hand-held mobile telephone; or
(b) a hand-held device of a kind specified in paragraph (4).
(4) A device referred to in paragraphs (1)(b), (2)(b) and (3)(b) is a device, other than a two-way radio, which performs an interactive communication function by transmitting and receiving data.
6(d) "two-way radio" means any wireless telegraphy apparatus which is designed or adapted -
(i) for the purpose of transmitting and receiving spoken messages; and
(ii) to operate on any frequency other than 880 MHz to 915 MHz, 925 MHz to 960 MHz, 1710 MHz to 1785 MHz, 1805 MHz to 1880 MHz, 1900 MHz to 1980 MHz or 2110 MHz to 2170 MHz;