Pulling out from the side of the road .

[Mick themungrel]

If you are stopped on the side of the road, in a parking bay, coming out of a truck stop on the highway etc and you see a truck coming 200, 300, 400 or even 500 metres or longer away please wait the extra few seconds to let him pass, rather than just pulling out then meandering along up the road. He is more than likely going to want to travel faster than you anyway. A truck doing 100kph travels approximately 28 metres per second (correct me if I'm wrong here guys) so you don't have to be Einstein to work out it will take him only about 10 seconds to reach you if he is 300 metres away when you pull out. You just don't pick up that much speed in 10 seconds.

I've got to say this is one of the things that used to get up my nose, you'd be wandering along minding your own business at 100kph then seemingly out of the bushes pops a car and caravan about 100 metres or so away. Try pulling up a B-Double grossing over 62 ton, then try to get past the caravanner because he wants to sit on 85kph. Even with 500+ hp it is a chore most truck drivers can do without.
Another thing caravans are known as tomato cases because of the way they fly apart when hit by a truck

[frankandbrenda]

Sept 19, 2012 21:14:55 GMT 9.5 Mick themungrel said:

If you are stopped on the side of the road, you see a BUS coming 200 metres away please wait the extra few seconds to let him pass,

Unlike the D!@$HEAD delivery driver in a ute with a tray full of empty cardboard boxes, who pull out THEN proceeded to travel at 45KPH in a 80 zone when I came up behind him, luckily I had finished the school run, even the truckie coming the other way was shaking his head.
So please think of all heavy vehicles and how other peoples driving affects heavy transport drivers AND their cargo.
Frank

[goinsoon]

Thank's Mick for that advice, a lot of car drivers and vanners do not realise how long the stopping distance is for semi's and B Doubles

[MOU537]

This one has gotten a lot worse since mobile phones people just stop any where so they dont get gaught talking on the phone then bingo when they hang up indactor on and out they come oblivouis to the traffic around them

[flyoz]

Agree more and more drivers are just plain oblivious.

[noggins]

Just done a run from Melb to Mandurah (W A )
The most ignorant drivers of all I encountered on the way , I'm sorry to say, were all caravan Drivers.
From pulling out just in front of you as you bear down on them doing the legal 110 Kph and then crawl along doing the max before the whole rig begins to wobble at 65 Kph to the suicidal idiots that come at you on the wrong side of the road , because it just wasn't a wide enough curve,then not to mention a certain group of toyota club members from WA that could be used as a demo video of How Not to Travel in a Convoy.
For fecks sake if you so frightened of the distances never leave the suburbs , or get used to using the CB , a safe distance for slow Toyotas in convoy is at least 1 Km apart( and try to keep off the white line , very hard to see past !.
There is plenty more , but my patience tonight is very tired .


Ron