HGV driver

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[classic33]

Have a word with Cadburys. Even if it wasn't one of theirs, if its delivering/picking up from one of their depots the cahances are they will know who was driving.

 

[Davywalnuts]

I guess your adrenaline is still in you? I tend to boil quickly in situations like that. Not good at all having to put up with that tonight!

You not get his number plate?

Am completely with you on your first paragraph. Always bloody exceptions! Even with us good cyclists!

 

[2Loose]

I bet he was still thinking about what you said an hour later, so maybe it sank in.

<crosses fingers>

 

[upsidedown]

Cadburys is how far from the railway line ? 10 metres ? I bet there's an old line running into the factory like at Longbridge.

You could get 100s of trucks off the road if they used the railway to that place.

 

[campbellab]

Registration number to the police?

 

[hackbike 666]

I tend to like taking a pic of their registration.I wound some bus driver by doing this a few years ago at Stratford although I didn't report him for what I considered dangerous driving.

He didn't like it or so it seemed as he was a bit keen to get away from the lights.

 

[upsidedown]

They've kept an engine on the site. It's by the outside playground of Cadbury World. There was a comprehensive railway running all around the site. It linked to the main line, and also went up over the line and canal, and back down the other side to a wharf, where it picked up loads from canal boats. The wharf is all houses now, and the railway is long gone-

http://www.miac.org.uk/bournville2.htm

Progress eh ?

 

[fossyant]

TBH, I've not had a run in with any HGV......this is an isolated incident - report it if you can........

 

[Tynan]

sucessive governments have rigged it so the roads lobby are so favoured that rail can't compete for freight, despite havng huge advantages, both obvious and fringe

it's a disgrace

 

[Crankarm]

Sounds like he didn't realise how far into the brown stuff he was potentially letting himself get by intimidating you. Most proper HGV drivers are very considerate on the roads as they have so much to lose. However on the motorways they are a totally different story although all drivers can be very combatative on these roads. Trucks definitely throw their weight around so to speak on the A14. Get in the way of one at your peril. I have experienced and seen a few occasions where they have pulled out to overtake one of their slower bretheren with little or no warning pushing me or other cars into the central reservation.

 

[Riverman]

sucessive governments have rigged it so the roads lobby are so favoured that rail can't compete for freight, despite havng huge advantages, both obvious and fringe

Thanks to our dear friend Sir Beeching and his mighty axe.

Little can be done about it now I'm afraid.

 

[cyberknight]

I had a few run in on the same stretch of road with a driver of a industrial skip hgv , the one time i gave him the finger he jumped out of the cab and tried to attack me.

In the end i changed my route to one that`s further and hillier but i do not get many lorries and in fact its the same route used by many of my work colleagues so they know who they are cutting up so they are a bit more considerate.

Ohh yea the point ...........

If you can get evidence and use it with the company in question from what i have read on these forums the police cannot do anything until your a stain on the road.

Maybe change your route if you have a dangerous area on your route and you can avoid it.

Keep your head as much as you can you may "win" the situation rather than causing more aggravation .

Hope everyone here stays safe !!

 

[parnes]

The police did a stop-check of HGvs in London.

They found that every single lorry they stopped was either in a dangerous condition (faulty brakes, tampered tachos) or the driver was uninsured or using a mobile.

 

[parnes]

Many lorry drivers in London are borderline sociopaths, I've seen a
scaffolding lorry hurl cigarette butts at cyclists and bully them out
of the way. I called the company to complain and was met with
indifference. I've seen lorry drivers read newspapers at the wheel,
chat away happily on a mobile and take stupid risks around cyclists.
Look at the Emma Foa case- the driver was found guilty of checking
his paperwork as he drove a twenty ton lorry, killed a cyclist and got a
fine of 400 quid. Madness.


City of London [Police] spot checks on HGVs [were] carried out on 30
September 2008 as part of the Europe-wide Operation Mermaid2, which
is intended to step up levels of enforcement of road safety laws in
relation to lorries.
On this one day, 12 lorries were stopped randomly by City Police.
Five of those lorries were involved in the construction work for the 2012
Olympics.

All of the twelve lorries were breaking the law in at least
one way

Repeat:


a 100 per cent criminality rate among small random sample of
HGVs on the streets of central London.

The offences range included

overweight loads (2 cases),
mechanical breaches (5 cases),
driver hours breaches (5 cases),
mobile phone use while driving (2 cases),
driving without insurance (2 cases)
and no operator license (1 case).

3 women have been killed by collisions with lorries so far this year.

I doubt that being able to turn left on red would have enabled any of
the 3 to avoid the collisions that killed them.

Meryem Ozekman, killed at Elephant and Castle last week, was nowhere
near a traffic light when she was run over. Rebecca Goosen, killed on
Old Street, was almost certainly going straight on over the junction
with Aldersgate Street, as her office was on Cowcross Street, so she
is likely to have followed Clerkenwell Road at least to the St John
Street junction.

And Eilidh, killed at Notting Hill Gate, is known
to have followed NHG all the way down to Shepherd’s Bush, and, in any
case, is reported to have been on the right hand side of the lorry
that killed her.

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/boris-left-at-the-lights