HGV, inside lane and wandering all over the place

[skeggysteve]

I'm currently driving on a lot of motorways/big A roads and I've had several incidents of HGVs wandering out of the inside lane into lane 2 and then wandering back into the inside lane or the hard shoulder.

Obviously when I'm in lane 2 and a 40 ton truck is about to squash me I'm a little bit concerned!

Is it just the driver doing something apart from driving or is it something else?

BTW it's not foreign trucks I'm talking about as I'm very cautious around them!

[scdan4]

They're just making a cup of tea.

[badboyburt]

could be watching tv or maybe playing angry birds on their ipad, the ipad one is quite common, often seen in traffic.

[NickM450]

There is a lot to think about when driving these lorries you know. You ever tried to steer with your knees, eat a sloppy bacon butty and making a coffee while trying to convince the office girl on the phone that you did deliver everything at the last drop

[skeggysteve]

NickM450 said:

.... You ever tried to steer with your knees...

Yes, but only in cars or 7.5 ton trucks and I don't wander all over the place!

I'll check back tomorrow for more posts, I don't have a tacho, so after a long day I'm off to bed.

[NickM450]

skeggysteve said:

NickM450 said:

.... You ever tried to steer with your knees...

Yes, but only in cars or 7.5 ton trucks and I don't wander all over the place!

I'll check back tomorrow for more posts, I don't have a tacho, so after a long day I'm off to bed.

Just to be clear, I was joking, hence the at the end of my post.

I have no idea why people wonder all over the road, cars manage it too. Lack of concentration I guess.

[anonymous-user]

Blame the tramlines in L1 everyone else does

[Humper]

Was it windy? If not, its pish drivers.

[anonymous-user]

Errrrr....

Struggling prostitute,
Dropped a DVD
Finding another biscuit to dip
Get a better signal on the tv
Found a ladder in stockings so trying to change
Swapping drivers when double manned
Finding a fresh tacho chart ( Irish V8 Scania only )

[GC8]

Wandering onto the hard shoulder worries me a great deal more than wandering into lane two, but theyre both caused either by the driver being fatigued (dangerous) or distracted (fking stupid).

At can be a difficult job and even a driver who has taken all of his compulsory breaks can be too tired to drive, even where they have had a proper nights sleep.

Don't rule out the driver being st-faced either: I recently saw a police traffic programme where they found someone drinking special brew as he drove along and he was 3x over the drink drive limit! Obviously an alcoholic, so it isn't as bad as if it was one of us, but it still beggars belief.

[shovelheadrob]

I nearly got hit by a Polish truck once, I had slipped up the inside on to an exit slip road when he drifted across, he had a porn mag balanced on the steering wheel, I thought what a wker!

[dowahdiddyman]

It`s not easy to keep in one lane when you have a fag in one hand,a brew on the go and trying to roll a joint while changing the tv channel all at once.

[GC8]

Just making the brew can be tricky!

[Super Slo Mo]

Could just be wind, I've had the unpleasant experience of trying to hold a truck in lane one in high winds. Trucks that are unladen or big for their weight are more susceptible to bring pushed around by the wind.

[anonymous-user]

Super Slo Mo said:

Could just be wind, I've had the unpleasant experience of trying to hold a truck in lane one in high winds. Trucks that are unladen or big for their weight are more susceptible to bring pushed around by the wind.

Change your diet then ?

I've had it bad after crap beer last night