When did drivers stop taking responsibility for their own actions? Lorry gets stuck in narrow countryside lane
Both of these things are possible... We get 'em down our street from an Egg farm nearby. 4am - three 18 wheelers, like clockwork. Nothing like the embarrassed driver above, but they definitely ignore the signs.
I think the drivers just use their not-so-smart phones...but no excuse for complete lack of common sense.
And if one of those things driver can't get it out, it's proper stuck. Used to sit & watch them manoeuvre from an office window. Remarkable skill & placement of machine in tight spaces... usually. A BMW driver followed his Sat Nav straight into a river 'Unbelievably stupid' white van man drives into river 'as satnav told me to' The most shocking sat nav fails - from driving straight into a river to getting stuck on a cliff Etc. Etc. Etc. I like the ones into rivers best.
The Americans have a way of getting stupid drivers off the road....they build 11ft8in high "stupid driver traps"
Got a rail bridge around the corner. The height signs & yellow markings on it get bigger every time, but still. You could fit a bus through th...
Has the saying goes- common sense is not (common!) What about some of the idiots who ride bicycles? Quite a few of them ignore everything in the highway code. From a HGV drivers point of view- they are a nightmare. One poor chap at our place killed a chap on a bicycle & was found not guilty. He had to live with that for the rest of his life. After some time off work he came back. He would never do any work what so ever again in Blackpool. This Country has probably the best highway code in the world. Its a shame that drivers of all vehicles do not stick to it. A wise HGV driver would make sure that his sat-nav is set up to the correct length, width, weight & height of his vehicle. If my company had not fitted my new wagon with a sat-nav, then i would still be using maps. Some car drivers cant even read them, let alone road markings & road signs. I'm far from a perfect HGV driver. At the end of the day, the road is my place of work. We all have to use it. Some for longer periods than others. Regards Stu.
Many many years ago a meeting that I was attending was put back because one of the RAF officers involved was called as part of an enquiry. An RAF HGV driver had approached a bridge and noted that the warning sign indicated a clearance height that was about one and a half inches higher than his vehicle. He had therefore proceeded under the bridge at full speed. There was a bump in the road. Result an expensive load damaged, a main road blocked for a day ditto a main railway line. No Sat Nav existed at the time.The driver was court martialed. Apparently the correct procedure would have been to stop, let some air out of the tyres and crawl through. .
