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Sometimes if they are going fast enough there is no way they can stop in time due to they weight and speed thing so they only thing they can do is go faster and hope they make it instead of trying to stop and ending up in the middle of the lights. But i agree sometimes truck drivers suck i have usually get problems with them changing into my lane when im right next to them and ive been run off the road a few times and ended up driving in the emergency lane!

Guest GR33DyMANGO

yer ive had a few close calls with trucks and buses. i always try at anticipate the stupiest thing every other road user could ever make.

thus, i always try to keep a large distance between other vehicles. when it comes to trucks and buses i never sit besides one.

talking of truck stories my gf was going around a round about and one nearly swipped her off the road. it went right into her lane so she pulled the finger or something(cant remember exactly what happened). then the truck driver stopped his truck in the middle of the round about so she couldnt move, got out of the truck and came up to the window shouting "wind down your window," while waving his finger at her. she reversed as fast as she could and got outta there.

oh yer... and i remember a few years ago there were heaps of accidents caused by massive trucks smashing into cars on leach hwy or something killing a few and putting many others in wheelchairs for the remainder of their life... or causing some to suffer from permanent brain damage. i think i might recall the cause of the accident was that the truck driver (as im sure is common among many) hadn;t slept for days and was full of drugs.

Originally posted by GR33DyMANGO

oh yer... and i remember a few years ago there were heaps of accidents caused by massive trucks smashing into cars on leach hwy or something killing a few and putting many others in wheelchairs for the remainder of their life... or causing some to suffer from permanent brain damage. i think i might recall the cause of the accident was that the truck driver (as im sure is common among many) hadn;t slept for days and was full of drugs.

hmm havent heard of that one.. but there was the one down greenmount when the truck lost its brakes and mashed into the cars at the midland/roe interchange.. BAAAAAAAM. now they have the truck arrester beds down the hill.. would love to take the bunky into that. hehe

Shaun

I've been in a truck before (passenger) in Sydney and you should see some of the dumb arrogant pricks in cars, In most two laned roundabouts you cant go wide enough out and the trailer will pull in (speed is not a factor). Just because when your pulling a trailer in your car and you can go round a roundabout with no hassels doesn't mean a truck can.

Sumo

I don't have a problem with trucks, but I think that when approaching lights they should go a speed in which they can stop. If that means slowing down as they approach green lights then so be it, they should be in the left lane anyway.

See'ya:burnout:

Guest GR33DyMANGO

speaking of craziness... i was going along the causeway bridge at about 9.30 last night (it was pretty busy, lots of cars everywhere) and this major retard with the one of those crappy old boxy fords and the 5HITEST caravan ive ever seen decided to stop in the middle of two lanes suddenly (nearly causing a pileup) then just did a U-turn onto the other side of the road nearly hitting more cars????

some people are seriously retarded.

Originally posted by azazel

Sumo,

They shouldn't be on the road if they physically can't obey the road rules (can't stay in their lane on roundabouts). Just like the big load trucks that couldn't stop for the red lights, get em off the road before more people get killed.

yep thats the way lots off smaller vehicles will push the prices of everything higher and we will all be better off. Especailly all those extra drivers needing to be employed. Pity even with a job the costs will be too musch for anyone to buy food etc Maybe its the road designers that are of more concern

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