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Give trucks a wide berth
zilspeed - 17/3/10 at 06:33 PM

'kinell !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPmw3OVQMo

speedyxjs - 17/3/10 at 06:35 PM



Iv heard that when driving those trucks, if you have an accident you cant actually feel in in the cab

r1_pete - 17/3/10 at 06:37 PM

Thats rediculous, no way he couldn't know hed picked that up, the noise must have been deafening.....

UncleFista - 17/3/10 at 06:37 PM

I just rubbed my eyes like in the cartoons, I can't quite believe that......

JoelP - 17/3/10 at 06:37 PM

how on earth did that happen?

coozer - 17/3/10 at 06:47 PM

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.

zilspeed - 17/3/10 at 06:52 PM

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.

turbodisplay - 17/3/10 at 06:55 PM

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

deanwelch - 17/3/10 at 07:14 PM

i wonder what the truck driver was doing not to notice ffs.......now what did clarkson say about truck drivers....

NigeEss - 17/3/10 at 07:21 PM

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

clairetoo - 17/3/10 at 07:27 PM

Please try to keep up at the back

zilspeed - 17/3/10 at 07:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
Please try to keep up at the back


Baahhhh humbug, or something......

Richard Quinn - 17/3/10 at 07:55 PM

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.

pewe - 17/3/10 at 08:46 PM

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

ashg - 17/3/10 at 10:18 PM

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.

MakeEverything - 17/3/10 at 10:49 PM

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.

iscmatt - 17/3/10 at 11:02 PM

Ah yes i saw that earlier.

WTF

jeffw - 18/3/10 at 06:34 AM

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.

Breaker - 18/3/10 at 08:30 AM

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.

jeffw - 18/3/10 at 01:24 PM

Looks like I'm wrong and it is real ....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8574600.stm

Liam - 18/3/10 at 01:42 PM

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

jeffw - 18/3/10 at 09:14 PM

With all these armchair experts claiming it is real you mean ?