zilspeed
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Give trucks a wide berth
'kinell !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPmw3OVQMo
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 06:35 PM |
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Iv heard that when driving those trucks, if you have an accident you cant actually feel in in the cab
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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r1_pete
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 06:37 PM |
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Thats rediculous, no way he couldn't know hed picked that up, the noise must have been deafening.....
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UncleFista
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 06:37 PM |
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I just rubbed my eyes like in the cartoons, I can't quite believe that......
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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JoelP
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 06:37 PM |
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how on earth did that happen?
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coozer
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 06:47 PM |
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Nothing to do with truck drivers, its just lack of observation.
I've seen left hand drivers switch lane flick the back of a car and turn in front of the truck.. TWICE!
However I must say that when I'm driving a LGV I can see a lot more around me than in my car. More mirrors, higher seat etc.
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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zilspeed
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 06:52 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Nothing to do with truck drivers, its just lack of observation.
I've seen left hand drivers switch lane flick the back of a car and turn in front of the truck.. TWICE!
However I must say that when I'm driving a LGV I can see a lot more around me than in my car. More mirrors, higher seat etc.
I don't question you in any way.
I'm not a truck driver, so won't comment.
All I meant was what the title said.
give trucks a wide berth.
I'm sure the drivers want their space.
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turbodisplay
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 06:55 PM |
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My friends wife was hit by a truck changing lanes, hit the barrier, bounced off then got hit by the front of the truck.
First thing truck driver new of the accident was hitting the car with the front of the truck. Ie the seccond time he hit her!
Darren
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deanwelch
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 07:14 PM |
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i wonder what the truck driver was doing not to notice ffs.......now what did clarkson say about truck drivers....
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NigeEss
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 07:21 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
Iv heard that when driving those trucks, if you have an accident you cant actually feel in in the cab
True, depending on the severity of the impact obviously.
An artic is typically 15-20 tonnes unladen with a very well insulated cab independently
sprung from the chassis.
I wrote off a Mondeo whilst doing a u-turn in a shop loading area. He tried to squeeze
past and I didn't see or feel a thing. Once you turn you have one mirror full of trailer
and the other in free space. I caught his rear quarter and took out B and C pillars, back
door and tailgate.
Having said that, I'm sure you would fell hitting a car with the front bumper and hear
the squeel of tyres
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clairetoo
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 07:27 PM |
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Please try to keep up at the back 
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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zilspeed
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 07:46 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
Please try to keep up at the back
Baahhhh humbug, or something......
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 07:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Nothing to do with truck drivers, its just lack of observation.
I've seen left hand drivers switch lane flick the back of a car and turn in front of the truck.. TWICE!
However I must say that when I'm driving a LGV I can see a lot more around me than in my car. More mirrors, higher seat etc.
Happened to
me a few years back on the M25. Hit me, T-boned me and spun me across the M3 on-slip and into the armco. It's not nice looking out of the
passenger window and seeing VOLVO in huge letters! The Xantia hire car was about the width of a motorbike when I finally stopped but no great loss
(and it was green!). According to the coppers, it's a daily occurrence in the south east with LHD trucks coming off the ferries. Even with their
curb mirrors above the window, they still have a big blind-spot in the front RH corner.
From that point on, I have always had one eye out for curb mirrors (the horzontal ones above the side window) on the RH side. You can't even go
by number plates now as there are so many PL and LI tractors pulling GB trailers without changing the plates. If coming up to one inside of me in
traffic, I tend to hang back a bit when passing so as to allow a gap to grow in my lane to the front of the truck and then pass swiftly so that I am
well in front as soon as possible.
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pewe
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 08:46 PM |
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Have to agree with RQ's point about hanging back then properly overtaking a big wheeler, partic. on Motorways but especially in narrow lanes in
roadworks.
One lapse by the truck driver and you & the tin-top are for it.
Cheers, Pewe 
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ashg
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 10:18 PM |
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my dad is a qualified class1 hgv mechanic/driver and he taught me a very important thing when i learnt to drive on the motorway. if you cant see the
lorry driver looking at you in the mirror then he cant see you.
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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MakeEverything
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 10:49 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ashg
my dad is a qualified class1 hgv mechanic/driver and he taught me a very important thing when i learnt to drive on the motorway. if you cant see the
lorry driver looking at you in the mirror then he cant see you.
Same on a motorbike. Plenty of room, and cautious of blind spots - same as on Cars as well. NEver change lanes inside a blind spot.
Kindest Regards,
Richard.
...You can make it foolProof, but youll never make it Idiot Proof!...
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iscmatt
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| posted on 17/3/10 at 11:02 PM |
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Ah yes i saw that earlier.
WTF 
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jeffw
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| posted on 18/3/10 at 06:34 AM |
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The video has to be fake. If you pushed a car sideways at 55mph for any distance the tyres & wheels (at the very least) would be destroyed, with
huge amount of smoke and sparks coming off them. There would also be a tendency for the vehicle on the front to be pushed one side or the other and
it certainly wouldn't site there on the front of the cab.
Very clever editing but it is fake.
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Breaker
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| posted on 18/3/10 at 08:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
'kinell !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPmw3OVQMo
Must be a new way of car-pooling! This way you can save lots of petrol, but it will cost you a new set of tires every day. 
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jeffw
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| posted on 18/3/10 at 01:24 PM |
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Looks like I'm wrong and it is real ....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8574600.stm
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Liam
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| posted on 18/3/10 at 01:42 PM |
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Glad you've come to your senses, cos you were about to get a good mocking I love all these youtube comment FAAAKE! proclaimers, who then
provide their 'expert' analysis as to why it's definately fake. Usually along the lines of 'I can see teh pixels'. But
of course the video isn't fake, so the 'expert' analysis is humourously shown up to be a load of, well...
I mean take this one - it could well have just happenned and the road is soaking wet. Why must the tyres and wheels be destroyed. And the front of a
truck is flat, as is the side of the car - why would there be a a tendency for it to be shoved off to one side? But more to the point the video is
utterly convincing and you get to see the car from just about every angle as it passes. Wouldn't be trivial for Hollywood to pull it off, but
youtube hero? No chance.
What would be really funny now is if the police investigation finds it's a faked youtube video .
Liam
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jeffw
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| posted on 18/3/10 at 09:14 PM |
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With all these armchair experts claiming it is real you mean ?
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