Is this lorry driver a bully or intoxicated?

[bob6600]

Most HGV drivers really annoy me as they have no or very little consideration for other road users. This car driver called the police 6 times and had to wait 3 hours for a response.

M1 lorry shunts: Police failed to attend call for three hours - BBC News

 

[renault12ts]

He was frustrated because someone travelling slower than 56mph was hogging the middle lane and thus to legally overtake him the lorry was forced to use the third lane...which aint allowed.

Stupid to hit the car though...he'll suffer for that.

 

[jotter22]

And in reflection looked like he had his hazard warning lights on too!....Cmon how many of us have wanted to do that to a lane hogger?...But it is not right.

Tony.

 

[jotter22]

Most HGV drivers really annoy me as they have no or very little consideration for other road users. This car driver called the police 6 times and had to wait 3 hours for a response.

M1 lorry shunts: Police failed to attend call for three hours - BBC News

I take it you have never driven a lorry!

Tony.

 

[c63chris]

Messy all round. Use that road a lot and some people just sit in the middle lane at 40-50mph like they are asleep. Doesn't justify what the lorry did though. As usual not showing the footage leading up to the incident so hard to say his more wrong.

 

[flango]

I have to agree with the OP to a certain extent HGV driving used to be a profession with courteous and professional drivers, now because of incidents like this they get tarred with the same brush as white van man. There is no doubt that HGV driving, particularly Class 1 has deteriorated and again this is probably due to the lack of relevance the current test has to real life conditions.

Using the third lane and swiping a car on more than one occasion is going to earn him a lengthy ban

 

[NDFR]

Putting another person life at risk no matter the circumstances is never acceptable. How much time was lost? Not a lot I'm betting. Lorry driver deserves to lose his license for a spell, he's dangerous.

 

[cb1965]

There's something that doesn't add up in that footage.

The lorry driver is clearly in the wrong, but there is a section of the video where the truck is coming across into the middle lane and there is nothing on the inside lane yet it's ages before the car driver moves over (to where he should be anyway)!

Any sane normal level headed driver would have been over there like a shot as against a truck it could be very nasty.

My guess is he was trying to prove a point by then. He should have pulled the truck driver over and had a word with him ItalianTunedUp stylee

 

[nick mercedes]

I had a nutter in an artic do the same to me on that section of the M1 last week, but my man missed, after tailgating me in the roadworks mm of my rear bumper for miles.

My sympathy for news story man has now evaporated though:

"Mr Stockdale, who runs a dashcam company, followed the lorry to a depot in Dunstable where an ambulance took him to hospital with neck and shoulder pain."

Why a scrape to his wheel arch would see him needing to be rushed to hospital??

 

[cb1965]

I had a nutter in an artic do the same to me on that section of the M1 last week, but my man missed, after tailgating me in the roadworks mm of my rear bumper for miles.

My sympathy for news story man has now evaporated though:

"Mr Stockdale, who runs a dashcam company, followed the lorry to a depot in Dunstable where an ambulance took him to hospital with neck and shoulder pain."

Why a scrape to his wheel arch would see him needing to be rushed to hospital??

He probably had a bad case of compensation!

 

[neilrr]

"Mr Stockdale, who runs a dashcam company......."

Meeting at the dashcam co. that afty.

Stockdale: "Right, we need to maximise our advertising budget. Any suggestions how we can get the best bang for our buck & get some exposure?"

 

[AMGeed]

^ Spot on.

I won't say the car driver deserved to be rammed (hardly a mark so it wasn't a hard collision) but why the hell stay in the centre lane when the inside one was empty.
Poor driving from both.
Oh, and nothing wrong with his neck either. A scammer as well as a poor driver.

 

[renault12ts]

There's something that doesn't add up in that footage.

The lorry driver is clearly in the wrong, but there is a section of the video where the truck is coming across into the middle lane and there is nothing on the inside lane yet it's ages before the car driver moves over (to where he should be anyway)!

Any sane normal level headed driver would have been over there like a shot as against a truck it could be very nasty.

My guess is he was trying to prove a point by then. He should have pulled the truck driver over and had a word with him ItalianTunedUp stylee

I think that's the point...chappy in the car is a moron, and he met another one that day. He clearly should have been on the left, not holding up the lorry which had just overtaken another lorry.

 

[motodrb]

Not only car driver should not be in the middle lane when not overtaking but also if lorry needed to overtake him he was going too slow. Looks like for a reason...

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I wonder if he was dawdling along in the middle lane because he was on the phone and lost concentration?

You can imagine the conversation:

'Yeah mate, on my way to a marketing meeting, gonna give them a bollocking because of the poor exposure we're getting, it seems that people see dashcams in a poor light because of the Youtube stuff. I know - whoa, hold on I'm being tailgated by a ****ing big lorry this'll make good footage. Bang, the *******s rammed me, I'm calling the police then the media then my insurance company - I feel some great exposure and a nice little bit of compo coming up'.

 

[MB-BTurbo]

Yes you can be fined for middle lane hogging but this turnip was inciting the dangerous actions of the lorry driver and therefore should be held to account. Ban them both (the lorry driver for longer).

 

[219]

Most HGV drivers really annoy me as they have no or very little consideration for other road users. This car driver called the police 6 times and had to wait 3 hours for a response.

M1 lorry shunts: Police failed to attend call for three hours - BBC News

Au contraire , the vast majority of HGV drivers are highly skilled professionals who spend many times more hours behind the wheel and cover considerably greater mileages than the majority of car drivers who are mere amateurs behind the wheel .

Given that the car in the video above was blatantly obstructing the lorry by remaining in lane two , HGV's and towing vehicles cannot use the rightmost lane of three or more , then he was the architect of his own misfortune .

Whilst I can't condone the lorry driver side swiping the car , I can understand his frustrations .

The issue of the police response is a separate matter , best exemplified by the incident near Stirling where both occupants of a crashed car eventually died after the police failed to respond to a 999 call ; this is not in any way a slight on police officers who do a very difficult job under next to impossible conditions , but is a severe criticism of government cuts which leave all the emergency services seriously under resourced .

 

[219]

I wonder if he was dawdling along in the middle lane because he was on the phone and lost concentration?

You can imagine the conversation:

'Yeah mate, on my way to a marketing meeting, gonna give them a bollocking because of the poor exposure we're getting, it seems that people see dashcams in a poor light because of the Youtube stuff. I know - whoa, hold on I'm being tailgated by a ****ing big lorry this'll make good footage. Bang, the *******s rammed me, I'm calling the police then the media then my insurance company - I feel some great exposure and a nice little bit of compo coming up'.

How interesting it would be , if the lorry driver also had a dash cam , to see that footage .

 

[92Adam]

there's something that doesn't add up in that footage.

The lorry driver is clearly in the wrong, but there is a section of the video where the truck is coming across into the middle lane and there is nothing on the inside lane yet it's ages before the car driver moves over (to where he should be anyway)!

Any sane normal level headed driver would have been over there like a shot as against a truck it could be very nasty.

My guess is he was trying to prove a point by then. He should have pulled the truck driver over and had a word with him italiantunedup stylee

+1

Only one winner against a wagon

 

[Amjenn]

"Au contraire , the vast majority of HGV drivers are highly skilled professionals"

So highly skilled that it takes them 20 mins to overtake each other on a Dual carriageway !!