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[TWR]

your Opinion of the UK HGV Drivers, I dont mean the Glory Boys ( Stobarts)

[bednobs]

tbh i don't know any

[237SJ]

No strong feelings either way but I wish they wouldn`t drive nose to tail making it impossible to get in between them to get off at my exit (M25 Essex/Kent).

[EcclesCake]

Competent.

What is wrong with Stobart drivers? Some of the best disciplined in my experience.

[baza]

saw something a while back, Stobart driver using a mobile phone, they sacked him. Most UK drivers are pretty good but don't let me get started on the Eastern Block drivers.

[tonyav]

Question for you TWR, where I work we often have arctics reverse into our bay for loading ( mainly export stuff) it is a very tight angle they have to approach it at in reverse gear full lock to the left, we have noticed that the foreign lorries seem to have a lot less trouble getting in than the British wagons. Do you think that this is because the foreign wagons are left hand drive ?.

[TWR]

It depends which way the loading dock is postioned Tony, we use to carry out of Heinz Kit Green Wigan many years ago, there were about 12 bays there & all made for Left Hookers, it was a sod to reverse off your blind side.

[flump1]

TWR, I have the utmost respect for UK HGV drivers. They work for a pittance and get grief from some other road users.
Apart from electricity, gas and water, what else is in your house not at some point been transported by truck ?
I salute them.

[tonyav]

Yeah, I thought you'd say that TWR.

[TWR]

237SJ, that's where experience comes in.

[TWR]

There is nothing that you can name Flump.

[boxtops]

agree with flump - and my opinion of any driver will depend on the individual driver (some are better and more responsible than others)

[Toureman]

http://www.theanswerb...rch/?q1=truck+drivers

[TWR]

Toureman, tIME & experience makes a HGV driver not a school, some of these so-called drivers do a weeks course on an Empty Trailor pass their test on a Frid & at times, jump into a 44 tonne on a Mon, what do you think about that?

[SpikeyBush]

HGV drivers are under a lot of pressure with deadlines and depots in large docks and terminals acting the bo11ocks. But there are some rogues in the business. One in particular I dealt with about 15 years ago. They were T H Transport of Wythenshawe. I called them Tuppence Ha'penny Transport. One night the regular driver for our 40' to London Heathrow was on holiday so TH's boss got an agency driver. This 'agency' driver took the articulated truck half a mile, parked it up and went home. Apparently he didn't even have a licence to drive a car let alone an articulated wagon, and he just joined an agency for the fun of it to see how far he could get before his lack of qualification was discovered.

Tuppence Ha'penny indeed.

[TWR]

Has anyone changed a clutch fork on this 4x4? I've got details off their owners club but just wondering, has anyone on here done this with the box in place? they do say it's poss in 2hours. tia.

[friedgreentomato]

I hate it when they drive up my arse but apart from that I don't really have an opinion.