Serious accident in Finchley. Another tipper-truck.

[Mallory]

Does this forum software have an ignore poster button?
This guy is just trolling us away from a really serious issue ...

yes it does.

click on his profile and then click ignore

 

[AndyRM]

Does this forum software have an ignore poster button?
This guy is just trolling us away from a really serious issue ...

Perhaps he would understand if he actually rode a bike...

 

[BentMikey]

He seems awfully het up and awfully wrong to me.

 

[StuartG]

click on his profile and then click ignore

Thank you for that. I apologise for not knowing - only I have never felt the need to do this before.
Which is sad for both of us.

 

[Mallory]

Thank you for that. I apologise for not knowing - only I have never felt the need to do this before.
Which is sad for both of us.

LOL i only just found out how to do it after you asked,

To say that lorries don't have blind spot was bad enough,to then argue about vehicles entering a RAB not having to give way to traffic from the right was the final straw

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Perhaps he would understand if he actually rode a bike...

There's an open invitation to a paid-for Boris Bike ride round the Sun and Sands roundabout here

 

[benb]

[QUOTE 2563890, member: 30090"]So you not admit that lorry drivers are now not solely paid by the load, an argument over nothing but we got there in the end.[/quote]


I'll admit they are not solely paid by the load, and you should admit that a load bonus equates to the same outcome.
If you really can't see an issue with a paid incentive for drivers to drive dangerously quickly and without regard for other road users, then you are quite deluded.

 

[AndyRM]

There's an open invitation to a paid-for Boris Bike ride round the Sun and Sands roundabout here

I noticed that. He'll not have the legs for a Boris Bike. If they are anything like the Scratch Bikes we have in Newcastle, they must weigh an absolute tonne!

 

[snailracer]

...
We really ought to borrow some of the ideas used by the government to address other parts of a problematic industry. If they can put Hospitals with significantly above average death rates into special measures than we should be doing the same with transport companies ...

Which brings up another topic...
I don't see any evidence that a cost-benefit analysis is ever carried out between transport and safety because they appear to be managed separately. For example, there seem little incentive for Dept for Transport officials to invest to reduce road accidents or pollution, because the costs of dealing with those don't all come out of the DfT's budget - there is cost to the NHS for treating injuries and to the Revenue due to lost wages, but that does not affect the DfT's bottom line so why should they care?
A lot of roads are managed by county and city councils, who are often even more disconnected from the consequences of their (non) actions, which makes me even more pessimistic.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I've seen graphics showing the blind-spots on artics when they are turning (quite sobering), but tipper trucks aren't articulated. I would imagine that the lateral blindspots, with well set up mirrors, are pretty much non-existant. Personally, when I hear a tipper truck anywhere near me, the adrenaline starts pumping. They tend to be driven a bit "briskly".

Only one thing scares me more than a tipper lorry on my tail; a supermarket home delivery van.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Particularly those for Tesco and Asda.... I think they employ the drivers that Addison Lee and Keltbray won't touch.

True dat.

 

[ianrauk]

[QUOTE 2564061, member: 1314"]Beano looks a bit like Lee who used to post here. Truck driver and a cyclist if it is him. Always quite abrasive online but quiet as a mouse on rides. He was good going uphill on a fixed, though.[/quote]



Keeerching!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

[QUOTE 2564089, member: 30090"]That's incorrect.

And why was it bad enough to say that rigid vehicles have no blind spots? Based on my own experience, if the mirrors are set up correctly then they don't have any.

As for the traffic entering onto a RAB giving way I wanted the piece of legislation that stats this - no more and no less.[/quote]

https://www.gov.uk/using-the-road-159-to-203/roundabouts-184-to-190

 

[Mugshot]

Now will you stop posting knobbish rubbish?

May I suggest that people stop feeding him?

 

[Leodis]

[QUOTE 2564101, member: 1314"]Don't want to take a serious topic OT so will just say to Lee and go!

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Day trip out?