Binmen and impatient drivers
Discussion
Is this another North/South divide thing? Never have I been bothered by a bin wagon, even when I have been held up by one. They are there to take away my rubbish, as well as other people's, so I'm inclined to give them a little slack.
When it comes to divvying up the council tax money I am sure that bin man's wages is not at the forefront of anybody's mind, but I have respect for the work that they do.
It's not like they turn up at random, is it?
When it comes to divvying up the council tax money I am sure that bin man's wages is not at the forefront of anybody's mind, but I have respect for the work that they do.
It's not like they turn up at random, is it?
I cant believe there are some people blaming the bin men. It is laughable that some think the council delibrately schedule bin collections at rush hour. If they are on your street/road at rush hour, you can be rest assured that they have been collecting bins from other streets before you woke up and will still be collecting when you are sat in your warm office with your starbucks coffee.
This guys do a job majority of people wouldnt want to do so please give them a little respect and dont make their lives/jobs any harder.
This guys do a job majority of people wouldnt want to do so please give them a little respect and dont make their lives/jobs any harder.
Good and bad on all crews I expect. Our crew has a few decent blokes and a couple of utter knobs. The other week one of them saw my other half start slowly reversing out of the drive and abandoned the bin behind the car on the pavement so he had to stop, move the bin then get back in the car. All the while bin man was smiling smugly.
I don't get why they have to do it in the morning, specifically between 7 and 9am.
Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
I quite regularly come across 10+ cars stuck behind the bin lorry on a Tuesday morning. Luckily, I'm on my bike, so can just hop off and walk around it on the pavement. And no, I wouldn't ride on the pavement as I don't want to hit one of them wheeling a bin across to the lorry.
Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
I quite regularly come across 10+ cars stuck behind the bin lorry on a Tuesday morning. Luckily, I'm on my bike, so can just hop off and walk around it on the pavement. And no, I wouldn't ride on the pavement as I don't want to hit one of them wheeling a bin across to the lorry.
HereBeMonsters said:
I don't get why they have to do it in the morning, specifically between 7 and 9am.
Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
Are you serious? Do you think the bin lorry turns up to empty bins on just your street, then buggers off home again, job done? As it happens, it was our bin day today. I passed them setting out towards our road at 7am this morning on my way to the station, and again (albeit probably a different lorry) heading towards the landfill site at 4:15pm this afternoon. Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
Whatever time they start they're going to get in someone's way. If waiting a couple of minutes to pass a bin lorry is really the bit of your week worth complaining about, then you have things amazingly easy. Man up.
MrTrilby said:
HereBeMonsters said:
I don't get why they have to do it in the morning, specifically between 7 and 9am.
Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
Are you serious? Do you think the bin lorry turns up to empty bins on just your street, then buggers off home again, job done? As it happens, it was our bin day today. I passed them setting out towards our road at 7am this morning on my way to the station, and again (albeit probably a different lorry) heading towards the landfill site at 4:15pm this afternoon. Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
Whatever time they start they're going to get in someone's way. If waiting a couple of minutes to pass a bin lorry is really the bit of your week worth complaining about, then you have things amazingly easy. Man up.
Years back if the binmen complained - resources permitting - we'd have had a cop there every morning knocking them off for driving on the path - would have been like shooting fish in a barrel
MrTrilby said:
HereBeMonsters said:
I don't get why they have to do it in the morning, specifically between 7 and 9am.
Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
Are you serious? Do you think the bin lorry turns up to empty bins on just your street, then buggers off home again, job done? As it happens, it was our bin day today. I passed them setting out towards our road at 7am this morning on my way to the station, and again (albeit probably a different lorry) heading towards the landfill site at 4:15pm this afternoon. Surely this can be done during the day when the vast majority of the traffic is safely parked up in the work car park?
Whatever time they start they're going to get in someone's way. If waiting a couple of minutes to pass a bin lorry is really the bit of your week worth complaining about, then you have things amazingly easy. Man up.
My experience of binmen is that they have little or no regard for other road users. They have a job to do so f
k everyone else. I at least expect them to indicate their intentions whenever they manoever their wagon, but not around here. Your car's paintwork is in their hands if you overtake them while they are stationary.
A few years ago in my drop-top days, I was following one through our village. Without indication he just stopped as I'd expect. But is he going to go again?? Who knows! So I pulled out to go past just as he also decided to pull across the other side of the toad, again no indicators. He stopped when he saw me. As I went past, i just waved both hands in the air ( no beans or fingers, but the roof was down ) as to say wtf are you doing. Driver just shouts f u c k off t o s s e r. Nice.
And don't get me started at how they leave the bins spawled across my drive meaning I then have to block the narrow road while I move them, so I can get my car in.
k everyone else. I at least expect them to indicate their intentions whenever they manoever their wagon, but not around here. Your car's paintwork is in their hands if you overtake them while they are stationary. A few years ago in my drop-top days, I was following one through our village. Without indication he just stopped as I'd expect. But is he going to go again?? Who knows! So I pulled out to go past just as he also decided to pull across the other side of the toad, again no indicators. He stopped when he saw me. As I went past, i just waved both hands in the air ( no beans or fingers, but the roof was down ) as to say wtf are you doing. Driver just shouts f u c k off t o s s e r. Nice.
And don't get me started at how they leave the bins spawled across my drive meaning I then have to block the narrow road while I move them, so I can get my car in.
Edited by fatboy b on Friday 26th September 19:41
Binmen here in Wellington deliberately park to cause maximum inconvenience. I've seen it happen time and time again. There will be very obvious areas where they could reduce the obstruction they cause, but they ignore them.
Don't get me wrong, I know they have a job to, but there is absolutely no question that they act as stated above.
Don't get me wrong, I know they have a job to, but there is absolutely no question that they act as stated above.
If getting stuck behind a bin wagon is becoming a regular problem, get out of bed 10 minutes earlier surely?
Problem is they only have a limited amount of time to make the collections and are bound to inconvenience somebody.
In Taiwan the bin wagon plays a little tune and people have to run up and throw their bags in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xKkB_JxgL4
Problem is they only have a limited amount of time to make the collections and are bound to inconvenience somebody.
In Taiwan the bin wagon plays a little tune and people have to run up and throw their bags in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xKkB_JxgL4
Edited by V8Ford on Saturday 27th September 13:36
Edited by V8Ford on Saturday 27th September 13:37
I pick up two sisters on the school run every day,every tuesday i arrive at there house but before i park on there drive i have to get out and move the bins. Every drive or access road that i see on the estate have the bins left in the middle of the drives/roads. Now we are not talking council estate here, most houses are over half million. The girls mum normally gets a whip round from the other houses for the bin men as a xmas tip, this year it'll be fk all, whilst were on the subject, sludge gulper/road sweepers, i phoned Canterbury council to ask why it was necessary for these bds to drive on one of the busiest roads into Canterbury at 7;30 in the morning,the answer was thats the route that they have to take, he couldn't see sense that this was a bloody stupid time of day to be driving at 5ish mph.
k all, whilst were on the subject, sludge gulper/road sweepers, i phoned Canterbury council to ask why it was necessary for these bds to drive on one of the busiest roads into Canterbury at 7;30 in the morning,the answer was thats the route that they have to take, he couldn't see sense that this was a bloody stupid time of day to be driving at 5ish mph.When I was running a small business in my local town a few years back, my route involved going through some small back-streets to access the city centre. As this was at rush-hour, the main roads were chocka, so this little route saved me loads of time.
Unless it was a Wednesday! That was the day when the binmen used to drive down emptying all the commercial bins from all the other shops. After a while I thought I had got wise to the time they would be down these roads, but not always - the time they were down there varied within the space of an hour.
Problem was, these are all one-way streets, so backing up or turning round was out. The other problem was, at the time (ah, the good old days!) I was fortunate enough to be driving my lovely 911 to the shop. Which also had expensively refurbished GT3 split-rim alloys.
The bin men were pretty good though, however the issue was me NOT WANTING to overtake! I'd pull up behind, and often one of them would look over and gesticulate to me to mount the kerb and overtake on the pavement. To which I would open the window, and shout thanks but no thanks - I don't want to knacker these wheels and tyres!
Oh yeah, and I also sometimes got attitude from cars behind me - they would sometimes beep and gesticulate that I should do that. They got well annoyed when I didn't
Unless it was a Wednesday! That was the day when the binmen used to drive down emptying all the commercial bins from all the other shops. After a while I thought I had got wise to the time they would be down these roads, but not always - the time they were down there varied within the space of an hour.
Problem was, these are all one-way streets, so backing up or turning round was out. The other problem was, at the time (ah, the good old days!) I was fortunate enough to be driving my lovely 911 to the shop. Which also had expensively refurbished GT3 split-rim alloys.
The bin men were pretty good though, however the issue was me NOT WANTING to overtake! I'd pull up behind, and often one of them would look over and gesticulate to me to mount the kerb and overtake on the pavement. To which I would open the window, and shout thanks but no thanks - I don't want to knacker these wheels and tyres!
Oh yeah, and I also sometimes got attitude from cars behind me - they would sometimes beep and gesticulate that I should do that. They got well annoyed when I didn't
Never really had any problems with binmen around here. Im guessing the videos are of southern mad drivers?
The assumption round here is that the lorry drivers and operators all get fairly decent wages for what they do and as such, most of them just get on with it, never seen bins put infront of my drive, or anyone elses and if you catch them in the morning they might say alright over the drone of the wagon.
The assumption round here is that the lorry drivers and operators all get fairly decent wages for what they do and as such, most of them just get on with it, never seen bins put infront of my drive, or anyone elses and if you catch them in the morning they might say alright over the drone of the wagon.
Back when I worked on the bins the area was at the start of the move from bags to wheelie bins.
Each house was "allowed" two bags to be taken away - although we took everything - I remember one house had 25 bags!
They're not doing it to piss you off, they're doing it because they're taking your st away and they've got hundreds of other people's st to take away.
Each house was "allowed" two bags to be taken away - although we took everything - I remember one house had 25 bags!
They're not doing it to piss you off, they're doing it because they're taking your s
t away and they've got hundreds of other people's st to take away.Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff