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You Have Often Seen This On A Motorway
44 Tonners very close to each other! I'd tried not to do this when I was on the road for obvious reasons, it takes the Truck a while to stop due to the load / Weight you were carrying, the same applies when you were Empty, with the brakes Applied they would lock up & you would still travel in a skid, I think it should become Law that HGV's be 2 Length's apart when travelling, this may be hard to comply with the volume of traffic & drivers cutting you up to get off at a Junction but it can be implemented, I also think that dash cam recordings should be used in a court of law to prosecute, I've had cars coming from the Outside lane right across me & others because they have miscalculated their Junction, the reason for this comment, that accident on the M1, apart from this Drink issue, I'm sure that these HGVs were travelling to close for this carnage to happen, what's your views?
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We'll have automated fleets soon and they have to travel close together.
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Driving like loons!
I was on the motorway in England a couple of weeks ago and was cut up on 6 occasions by HGV's - the roads were not that busy but they decided to pull out into the middle lane without indicators to overtake the HGV infront of them!
Then when we moved onto a minor road approaching a roundabout did not slow down or indicate!
I was on the motorway in England a couple of weeks ago and was cut up on 6 occasions by HGV's - the roads were not that busy but they decided to pull out into the middle lane without indicators to overtake the HGV infront of them!
Then when we moved onto a minor road approaching a roundabout did not slow down or indicate!
Few would nip in for the "fun" of being sandwiched between two HGVs. It'd be of "necessity" when desperate to find a gap allowing them to use the upcoming exit.
2 lengths seems a reasonable suggestion, but I wonder how it'd be policed. It would only really apply when one chooses to follow another in front. Forcing one to go at the rate of the slowest HGV doesn't seem like a goer to me. And it is the blocking two lanes whilst overtaking over miles that is a pain for other users. But I guess that's a different issue.
2 lengths seems a reasonable suggestion, but I wonder how it'd be policed. It would only really apply when one chooses to follow another in front. Forcing one to go at the rate of the slowest HGV doesn't seem like a goer to me. And it is the blocking two lanes whilst overtaking over miles that is a pain for other users. But I guess that's a different issue.
//the roads were not that busy but they decided to pull out into the middle lane without indicators to overtake the HGV infront of them! //
they don’t “decide” – if they’re hard behind a slower moving truck they won’t slow down because it costs too much. So regardless of what’s to their right, they WILL pull out. Car drivers need to be alert to this and be looking well ahead - if 2 truck seem scarily close together, give them a wide berth.
they don’t “decide” – if they’re hard behind a slower moving truck they won’t slow down because it costs too much. So regardless of what’s to their right, they WILL pull out. Car drivers need to be alert to this and be looking well ahead - if 2 truck seem scarily close together, give them a wide berth.
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