so what drove the tudor driver to do what he did! he was certainly rather p**sed at the truck, I bet he considered it to be at least a major 'inconsiderate driving' incident
kingfisher21,
Feb 28, 8:29pm
No, he was your typical average asshole who thinks he owns the road and trucks have no place on them.
pdc1,
Feb 28, 8:31pm
skin - you are right on the money here.
skin1235,
Feb 28, 8:33pm
or is that the trucker who thought he owned the whole damn hill and be bugged if anyone was gonna get through before him speaking of assholes, I bet the truckers was quiverin for a while
rob_man,
Feb 28, 8:34pm
I don't think he did. What law did he break!
skin1235,
Feb 28, 8:47pm
I think it may be the unwritten law about how big trucks are the king of the road and scare the sh*ts out of a lot of dreamers so therefore must be givem rightofway, and free reign of all tarmac they can gobble, thus it is illegal to get pi***ed of with a wanki** steerer or caste aspersions about his kingship status of owning the road
or something like that
pge,
Feb 28, 8:47pm
I posted in General:
The location: Pohuehue Viaduct, about 6Km north of Puhoi, between Schedewys Hill and Perry rd, just north of Moirs Hill Rd.
There was more than one example of bad driving in that clip.
Firstly; the truckie contributed, by overtaking when he obviously had a long line behind him.
Secondly; the rodder's chopping of the truck was crazy.
Thirdly; the vehicles overtaking both the truck AND the rod gave themselves no margin for error, one going over the yellow line.
Allround; general, typical, numb-nut stupidity.
Stuff that I have to clean-up after, on a quite regular basis.
kingfisher21,
Feb 28, 8:48pm
Using the video he could easily be prosecuted for careless or reckless driving.
pdc1,
Feb 28, 8:51pm
You're onto it too pge.
pollymay,
Feb 28, 8:56pm
That truck has to get past BEFORE the passing lane runs out. To do something that stupid and have it caught on cam you could be liable for damages. I fail to comprehend how the brake check achieves anything if he is now stuck behind other traffic rather than leading them.
I don't mind sharing the road with trucks, lots of them will let you out at intersections and what not cause they are slow to get underway. You'd last a week letting people past before you realize how many are just too stupid to let go past, they sandbag and pace the truck, slooooooowly overtaking it then the opportunity is gone and granny in her starlet just quietly slips away blissfully unaware she is the 99% of horrible inconsiderate drivers. I've helped bend straight bumpers from people that have merged into the truck on lanes like that cause they are in la-la land rather than quickly scooting past.
Damn the motorists, "we're" collectively retarded as far as the truck sees.
skin1235,
Feb 28, 8:56pm
you mean the truck for pulling out before the passing lane began, or was that for not letting the other traffic go through before pulling out, oh no, that would be inconsiderate driving not careless driving I doubt you will ever any fault on the trucks behalf, your childhood god must be right Its a 45t truck and trailer, they will kill if they're in the wrong place at the wrong time, dreaming about what you'd do or how you'd handle such a situation is quite possibly the best reason you'll never get the chance to drive a truck being the aggressive winner means others can die, legal or not, the truck should never have been in that situation
i-n-horz,
Feb 28, 9:00pm
If the slower truck wasn't in front I'm damn sure that 2nd trucker would've quite easily kept to the posted limit judging by the pace he took the 1st unit on the climb (which he has a right to) and when those impatient R's wipes behind him caught the next passing lanes they would've had plenty of road ahead of them.trucker #2 would be long gone.your a long time dead so what's the rush!
andrea_w,
Feb 28, 9:04pm
The really, really retarded thing is. no more than 200ish meters further up that hill is ANOTHER passing lane! So the Tudor and all other cars COULD have passed safely within the next minute. .and only a few more kms down the road is another passing lane.
morrisman1,
Feb 28, 9:04pm
I do wonder how this thread would have turned out if that was a honda in the place of the Tudor
pollymay,
Feb 28, 9:06pm
Honda would of overshot the truck when vtec kicked in yo
skull,
Feb 28, 9:07pm
Scottie would have found a way to post in spite of the ban
i-n-horz,
Feb 28, 9:10pm
If your talk'n bikes.hell! he'd be at home,feet up sink'n an ale.
skin1235,
Feb 28, 9:12pm
now don't go introducing rice now morrisman, andrea you've just confirmed the 'no patience left in the world' comment I made earlier the truckie would have known of the other passing lanes too, wonder why when his limit is 90 he pulled out in front of vehicles that are legally posted at 100 k, knowing he would not be able to even maintain his posted 90k up there loaded to 45t as he claims
could it be he thought he had big balls, and didn't like it when someone showed him their true size
skin1235,
Feb 28, 9:14pm
anyway, from 7.35 to 11.15, another night filled in
skull,
Feb 28, 9:22pm
So from 7.35 to 11.15 you have been on this MB letting everyone know you're a dickhead, most of us knew that at 7.35, off you go to bed old timer, you can come back in the morning and reinforce it again.
i-n-horz,
Feb 28, 9:32pm
I can see it now.Clive Falconer waving frantically his fat,foolish finger out the Tudor window as the trucker just keeps on a truck'n ;) http://youtu.be/NoFQGXVVRv0
whqqsh,
Feb 29, 3:37am
normally im not keen on trucks taking up passing lanes turtling past each other but that guy had a good run on & moved left as soon as he could, the hot rod guy just gave us all a bad name. Bad driving & in such an obvious car, he may as well been driving a company car with his ph number signwritten on it.
andrew241,
Feb 29, 5:24am
The truck was right,He wasnt hard up the other truck until 150 meters before the start of the passing lane unlike what skin said (have another look at the video)By the way skin you have lost my respect.
Didn't the Rodder brake cause of a couple of cyclists riding 2 abreast lol. Like a few people have said, rodder is a **** and nearly caused an accident by braking & his lame ars#d attempt at merging back into the traffic. We are all a long time dead
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