One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
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57Ford said:
Even before reading your comment, I saw your username and knew it contained a thinly veiled insult. You seem to have an angry point to make with everyone mate.
Actually, I'm well able to avoid slow vehicles or must have been really lucky these past 25 years of often 'driving like I stole it'. There are many others on the road though, whom I'd rather weren't forced to change lanes and jockey for position around some rolling roadblock in early morning gloom.
Maybe the vehicle had problems earlier?? Possibly, but I rather suspect it's a business decision based on a standard working day or overtime. Either way, it's still an unnecessary increased risk.
So now I'm changing my mind about the thing that makes me think knob from BT's post to yours. Just please cool it down because it just pisses everyone off when folk are only on here for a dig.
I'm pretty sure traffic jams aren't cited as a major cause of road deaths, they are just annoying. So yes a minor insult for you being a bit of a drama queen felt appropriate.Actually, I'm well able to avoid slow vehicles or must have been really lucky these past 25 years of often 'driving like I stole it'. There are many others on the road though, whom I'd rather weren't forced to change lanes and jockey for position around some rolling roadblock in early morning gloom.
Maybe the vehicle had problems earlier?? Possibly, but I rather suspect it's a business decision based on a standard working day or overtime. Either way, it's still an unnecessary increased risk.
So now I'm changing my mind about the thing that makes me think knob from BT's post to yours. Just please cool it down because it just pisses everyone off when folk are only on here for a dig.
It's getting tiring in this thread that people are jumping to conclusions on things that aren't always under the perpetrators control. Especially in this case I'm sure the crane driver didn't set out thinking "I can't wait to slow down traffic" and instead got told by their boss they had to go somewhere, or had been delayed.
Situation. Approaching a 3-way mini roundabout on a rural road. the straight line is the original road the mini was built for access to a housing estate. I am driving up the main drag, and hear, sirens, then see a plod car coming down towards me on the straight, and there is some 
with st for brains waiting to turn out from the estate. The police car has the right of way. fktard doesnt understand this nor a plod car bearing down on him at warp speed, so this just pulls out in front of him as he enters the roundabout and acceleratess up to walking pace causing plod to resurface the road with a thick layer of of Pirelli, how there was not a collision is down to plod. I hope he got the guys number and will book him in retrospect. for once i would certainly pal up with plod.
with st for brains waiting to turn out from the estate. The police car has the right of way. fktard doesnt understand this nor a plod car bearing down on him at warp speed, so this just pulls out in front of him as he enters the roundabout and acceleratess up to walking pace causing plod to resurface the road with a thick layer of of Pirelli, how there was not a collision is down to plod. I hope he got the guys number and will book him in retrospect. for once i would certainly pal up with plod.doogz said:
smithyithy said:
Before or after rush hour? Anything of a limited speed like that should follow similar procedures to wide loads IMO.
What procedures? Notifying the authorities providing the relevant amount of notice?What difference is that going to make?
If the crane driver is driving to a job, working, then driving back, he can't very well leave before rush hour in the morning, work, then leave after rush hour to go back home. People are only allowed to work so many hours.
It's an inconvenience, yes, but so are all the other idiots on the road, people that drive such vehicles tend to know what they're doing, and bother me less than the silly girl doing her makeup whilst driving, and doesn't have a spare hand to work her indicator.
The t
t in the Megane who's rear ended the 5 Series in stop/start traffic because she was on her mobile will cause far more delay than a crane trundling along at 40mph. Having had a few Ainscough cranes on my sites, we ask them not to arrive before a certain time because there is nowhere for them to park/the working platform isn't ready/the rest of the plant needs to move around. If they turn up at 3am, when the roads are dead, then they'll more often than not have to park on the road, or outside someone's house, or in a bus stop or something until the site is ready - which would garner just as many complaints). And at £10k/day (roads schemes, so public money), we won't have them just sitting around doing nothing, we will get them in for the time we need them, then f
k 'em off again once we're finished. doogz said:
What procedures? Notifying the authorities providing the relevant amount of notice?
What difference is that going to make?
If the crane driver is driving to a job, working, then driving back, he can't very well leave before rush hour in the morning, work, then leave after rush hour to go back home. People are only allowed to work so many hours.
It's an inconvenience, yes, but so are all the other idiots on the road, people that drive such vehicles tend to know what they're doing, and bother me less than the silly girl doing her makeup whilst driving, and doesn't have a spare hand to work her indicator.
Procedures such as communicating with the Highways Agency as to the best time to move the vehicle. Those big cranes are an exceptional vehicle, from my experience of working on the highways it's often not suitable for them to travel in normal traffic and rush hours.What difference is that going to make?
If the crane driver is driving to a job, working, then driving back, he can't very well leave before rush hour in the morning, work, then leave after rush hour to go back home. People are only allowed to work so many hours.
It's an inconvenience, yes, but so are all the other idiots on the road, people that drive such vehicles tend to know what they're doing, and bother me less than the silly girl doing her makeup whilst driving, and doesn't have a spare hand to work her indicator.
Whether it's the publics fault for not being able to see it, slow down or avoid it is irrelevant. It's not an ideal situation, so it has to be treated as a hazard and co-ordinated as such.
Wide loads aren't allowed to travel during certain hours, and they have to arrange and agree an escort and set route. I think vehicles of a certain size / weight / speed such as those cranes should follow a procedure similar to that, such as travelling outside of certain hours.
Maybe a controversial one here, but imo a knob.
My wife, her mother and friend all went out for a meal last night. Restaurant car park is often full so parking spills out onto nearby roads. My wife parked up at the side of the road and off they went for a meal. Upon returning to the car she found a note on the windscreen which said, "CAN YOU NOT READ, DISABLED PARKING ONLY!!!!". So my wife looked around, found no designated bay marked on the road, nor any road signs indicating disabled parking. As she was getting in the car, out comes an angry man from a house my wifes car was parked outside of. He started ranting an raving at her, then pointed to a disabled notice he had printed himself on A4 paper and stuck to his fence. My wife ignored him and drove off, only for him to start running after the car!!! Not sure how he thinks printing his own disabled sign enables him to own a section of road outside his house.
Absolute knob on 3 points:
1. Printing own disabled sign
2. Verbally abusing and swearing at 3 women
3. Running after the car
My wife, her mother and friend all went out for a meal last night. Restaurant car park is often full so parking spills out onto nearby roads. My wife parked up at the side of the road and off they went for a meal. Upon returning to the car she found a note on the windscreen which said, "CAN YOU NOT READ, DISABLED PARKING ONLY!!!!". So my wife looked around, found no designated bay marked on the road, nor any road signs indicating disabled parking. As she was getting in the car, out comes an angry man from a house my wifes car was parked outside of. He started ranting an raving at her, then pointed to a disabled notice he had printed himself on A4 paper and stuck to his fence. My wife ignored him and drove off, only for him to start running after the car!!! Not sure how he thinks printing his own disabled sign enables him to own a section of road outside his house.
Absolute knob on 3 points:
1. Printing own disabled sign
2. Verbally abusing and swearing at 3 women
3. Running after the car
zedx19 said:
Maybe a controversial one here, but imo a knob.
My wife, her mother and friend all went out for a meal last night. Restaurant car park is often full so parking spills out onto nearby roads. My wife parked up at the side of the road and off they went for a meal. Upon returning to the car she found a note on the windscreen which said, "CAN YOU NOT READ, DISABLED PARKING ONLY!!!!". So my wife looked around, found no designated bay marked on the road, nor any road signs indicating disabled parking. As she was getting in the car, out comes an angry man from a house my wifes car was parked outside of. He started ranting an raving at her, then pointed to a disabled notice he had printed himself on A4 paper and stuck to his fence. My wife ignored him and drove off, only for him to start running after the car!!! Not sure how he thinks printing his own disabled sign enables him to own a section of road outside his house.
Absolute knob on 3 points:
1. Printing own disabled sign
2. Verbally abusing and swearing at 3 women
3. Running after the car
Irrespective of that fact that a disabled person 'might' be living there, and it 'might' be awaiting an official sign - Its not currently an official designated bay, so no foul on her part if she did not notice any handwritten signs.My wife, her mother and friend all went out for a meal last night. Restaurant car park is often full so parking spills out onto nearby roads. My wife parked up at the side of the road and off they went for a meal. Upon returning to the car she found a note on the windscreen which said, "CAN YOU NOT READ, DISABLED PARKING ONLY!!!!". So my wife looked around, found no designated bay marked on the road, nor any road signs indicating disabled parking. As she was getting in the car, out comes an angry man from a house my wifes car was parked outside of. He started ranting an raving at her, then pointed to a disabled notice he had printed himself on A4 paper and stuck to his fence. My wife ignored him and drove off, only for him to start running after the car!!! Not sure how he thinks printing his own disabled sign enables him to own a section of road outside his house.
Absolute knob on 3 points:
1. Printing own disabled sign
2. Verbally abusing and swearing at 3 women
3. Running after the car
Now, we can either assume the guy is a complete unhinged loon who is just a plain moron- or somebody normal with enough emotional baggage relating to a disabled person being the household, that his current situation has unhinged him.
Press your buttons and vote now.....
Edited by Hol on Wednesday 26th November 16:14
Both drivers of the sh*tboxes involved in a road rage incident in Edinburgh's Royal Mile today at lunchtime. Lots of tyre screeching and some tailgating, followed by both drivers blocking the road and getting out of their cars to remonstrate briefly with each other.
Shame for them that there was a police van two cars back who promptly pulled one of the cars over.
Knobs
Shame for them that there was a police van two cars back who promptly pulled one of the cars over.
Knobs
LY54 DVO High Wycombe
If anyone knows the driver of this Tonka, please urge him to seek the psychiatric help he needs.
This still from the videos seems mild - except that GPS shows I am travelling at 30 mph (= 44 feet a second!!!) at that point.
Video follows (unless I decide instead to pass it to the Police) although 10 minutes of idiocy is a lot to sit through . . . !
Edited by Cliftonite on Wednesday 26th November 18:22
doogz said:
What procedures? Notifying the authorities providing the relevant amount of notice?
What difference is that going to make?
If the crane driver is driving to a job, working, then driving back, he can't very well leave before rush hour in the morning, work, then leave after rush hour to go back home. People are only allowed to work so many hours.
I still can't work out if you're a troll or just dense.What difference is that going to make?
If the crane driver is driving to a job, working, then driving back, he can't very well leave before rush hour in the morning, work, then leave after rush hour to go back home. People are only allowed to work so many hours.
The crane driver could go to his job before rush hour.. and return [b]before[/i] rush hour or leave after rush hour and return after rush hour
So doing a normal 8 hour shift.. but.. shifted. Every other f
ker involved can get their st together so they're ready for the crane when the crane gets there, not the other way round. As for breakfast, there's a 24 hour Tescos just about fking everywhere, there's your fking breakfast, it may not be a full English but you fat fks can make do with a banana and a milk shake like the rest of us do when we need to work odd hours, or I don't know, eat it at fking home?Jesus wept some people are f
king nannied in their jobs aren't they?Even more crazy, they could.. idk, work over time if it'll take more than 8 hours to drive out, do the job and drive back? Sleep somewhere like a regular HGV driver does? Take a long brake?
Or work extra every f
king day despite not getting overtime like some mugs do 
It would of course hit the employer's profit but idgaf, all the people held up are all on their way to do something more important than lift some f
king yachts out of a fking harbour or put the star on some bullsit f Christmas tree.Either way there ought to be a law against taking things like that on the motorway during rush hour, same for wide loads, why the f
k anyone absolutely has to move a frickin house down the M1 at exactly 8:30 in the morning is beyond me and it causes utter chaos. There should probably be a law against doing your makeup and selfieing it to your instabook while sat in lane 2 because the other lanes are too scary but apparently that's ok too because no fker ever gets done for it.Edited by scarble on Wednesday 26th November 19:32
scarble said:
doogz said:
What procedures? Notifying the authorities providing the relevant amount of notice?
What difference is that going to make?
If the crane driver is driving to a job, working, then driving back, he can't very well leave before rush hour in the morning, work, then leave after rush hour to go back home. People are only allowed to work so many hours.
I still can't work out if you're a troll or just dense.What difference is that going to make?
If the crane driver is driving to a job, working, then driving back, he can't very well leave before rush hour in the morning, work, then leave after rush hour to go back home. People are only allowed to work so many hours.
The crane driver could go to his job before rush hour.. and return [b]before[/i] rush hour or leave after rush hour and return after rush hour
So doing a normal 8 hour shift.. but.. shifted. Every other f
ker involved can get their st together so they're ready for the crane when the crane gets there, not the other way round. As for breakfast, there's a 24 hour Tescos just about fking everywhere, there's your fking breakfast, it may not be a full English but you fat fks can make do with a banana and a milk shake like the rest of us do when we need to work odd hours, or I don't know, eat it at fking home?Jesus wept some people are f
king nannied in their jobs aren't they?Even more crazy, they could.. idk, work over time if it'll take more than 8 hours to drive out, do the job and drive back? Sleep somewhere like a regular HGV driver does? Take a long brake?
Or work extra every f
king day despite not getting overtime like some mugs do It would of course hit the employer's profit but idgaf, all the people held up are all on their way to do something more important than lift some f
king yachts out of a fking harbour or put the star on some bullsit f Christmas tree.Either way there ought to be a law against taking things like that on the motorway during rush hour, same for wide loads, why the f
k anyone absolutely has to move a frickin house down the M1 at exactly 8:30 in the morning is beyond me and it causes utter chaos. There should probably be a law against doing your makeup and selfieing it to your instabook while sat in lane 2 because the other lanes are too scary but apparently that's ok too because no fker ever gets done for it.Edited by scarble on Wednesday 26th November 19:32
That's a QUALITY rant.
It's almost entirely wrong and I could quite easily negate most of it, but I think for the rage shown, you should have the glory...
Knob: The angry cyclist that decided to bang on the windows of the bus (I know, I know) I was on this morning as he squeezed past. From what I could tell from his angry gesturing the bus was too close to the kerb, although we had just pulled away from a stop. I think he was just a very angry little man.
3 things spring to mind...
1) BMW drivers with 'non-M' (1M/M3/M4/M5/M6) cars who plaster it with 'M' badges.
2) Assume just because of driving a 'sports car' - the driver who for some reason tried to overtake on a bend yesterday and proceed to beep me after i gave the throttle a quick blip..thus going a fair bit ahead. Only for him to then turn into a car park no more than 10 metres further down the road...tit.
3) Middle lane hoggers
EDIT: actually 4 things:
4) people who stick daytime running lights on their car. Factory fitted ones on modern cars i dont mind, but not when its some 15year old car now looking like an x-mas tree covered in wonky LEDs
1) BMW drivers with 'non-M' (1M/M3/M4/M5/M6) cars who plaster it with 'M' badges.
2) Assume just because of driving a 'sports car' - the driver who for some reason tried to overtake on a bend yesterday and proceed to beep me after i gave the throttle a quick blip..thus going a fair bit ahead. Only for him to then turn into a car park no more than 10 metres further down the road...tit.
3) Middle lane hoggers
EDIT: actually 4 things:
4) people who stick daytime running lights on their car. Factory fitted ones on modern cars i dont mind, but not when its some 15year old car now looking like an x-mas tree covered in wonky LEDs
Edited by Stevoox on Thursday 27th November 10:35
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