You tube (shunt) lorry driver keeps his HGV licence
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From: GT on 27 May 2010 05:53 "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:svqdndiShcXdqGPWnZ2dnUVZ8m6dnZ2d(a)bt.com... > "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message > news:4bfe331f$0$17498$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >> "Conor" <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:865t7kFr7cU9(a)mid.individual.net... >>> On 26/05/2010 17:33, GT wrote: > >>>> - How come lorries can stop within 6 inches of my rear bumper at >>>> traffic >>>> lights then? >>>> >>> Because they don't. Get out and look next time. You'll find its a lot >>> further than 6 inches. >> > At traffic lights or road junction with a "Give Way" or "Stop" line, do > you stop when the white line is about to disappear from your view or do > you pull up so that the front of your vehicle is on the line? If the > latter, how do you know where to stop? Simple - I stop at the line. The reason I know where to stop is that I can see the line out of my side 'A' window. Being able to see something enables me to know where it is.
From: boltar2003 on 27 May 2010 05:54 On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:34:27 +0100 "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote: >> Then I wouldn't have heard the initial bang. But I'd still have heard the >> scraping sound coming from under the car. > >What - do you mean you could hear the scraping noise even if you are above >the source of the noise and can't see it. Don't forget that you are sitting I know, incredible isn't it? These things called ears , amazing what you can do with em.... ;) >behind a pane of glass and have an engine running (diesel or v6/8 I would >guess for that torque)? V6 diesel. I don't know how I manage to hear scaping cones or ambulence sirens or car horns with , as you say , a pane of glass and engine noise between me and the outside world. And thats without the radio on! B2003
From: Conor on 27 May 2010 05:56 On 27/05/2010 09:35, GT wrote: > "Conor"<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message > news:865spaFr7cU2(a)mid.individual.net... >> On 26/05/2010 14:25, boltar2003(a)boltar.world wrote: >>> On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:05:32 +0100 >>> "GT"<a(a)b.c> wrote: >>>> How can any lorry driver possibly fail to notice a car that drives >>>> across >>>> his path on a motorway and with which he subsequently collides, then >>>> pushes >>>> along the road for ages. I don't get that one at all - a mobile phone >>>> microphone clearly picks up the screaching of the car's tyres and horns >>>> from >>>> other drivers from inside another vehicle 2 lanes away, so the driver >>>> not >>>> noticing is beyond comprehension. >>> >>> I was wondering the same. Either the guy is deaf , in which case he >>> should >>> have a re-test to make sure he's not a danger on the road or he's a liar >>> and some sucker believed him. >>> >> Get in an artic and you'll see why it could be invisible. > > No - we were talking about hearing. Invisiblity is irrelevant to the ears! > > Again, go in an artic. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 27 May 2010 05:57 On 27/05/2010 09:35, GT wrote: > "Stephen Bagwell"<stephenb1963uk(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:a2eed347-06d2-4eb0-ab41-e2f7efcb6f11(a)f14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com... >> On 26 May, 14:53, boltar2...(a)boltar.world wrote: >>> On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:44:26 +0100 >>> >>> "Brimstone"<brimst...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> You too would benefit from sitting a lorry's driving seat. >>> >>> I might not have ridden in a lorry but I've ridden in enough noisy buses >>> in my time and you can still hear whats going on outside perfectly well. >>> You'd certainly be able to hear squeeling tyres. >>> >>> B2003 >> >> The rain would have lessened the noise and smell from the car's tyres. > > Well the insensitive mobile phone microphone clearly picked it up from 2 > lanes away and from behind glass, so the noise wasn't lessened much! > > The window was open. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Ian Jackson on 27 May 2010 05:57
In message <htlcf3$562$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, boltar2003(a)boltar.world writes >On Thu, 27 May 2010 01:36:26 +0100 >Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: >>On 26/05/2010 17:05, boltar2003(a)boltar.world wrote: >>> On Wed, 26 May 2010 08:41:32 -0700 (PDT) >>> McKevvy<vicko_zoomba(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Wouldn't the lorry driver feel some sort of immediate resistance, >>>>> especially as the car was being pushed sideways and thought "hello, >>>>> there's something wrong here"? >>>>> >>>> No because trucks are designed and geared to overcome resistance. The >>>> amount of resistance offered by the car is negligable to say the >>>> least. >>> >>> The amount of resistence offered by a traffic cone is miniscule but I >>> still noticed when one got stuck under my car a few years back. >>> >>Because its a poxy car with 100lb/ft of torque at best. > >Well mine has about 350 but thats beside the point. The noise of hitting the >cone and the scraping sound would have been a giveaway if I hadn't seen it >already (cone knocked over by another vehicle in roadworks , going to fast to >swerve , not an interesting tale). > Were the truck and the car were intimately locked together? In practice, there would probably have been quite a lot of 'bumping and grinding' between metalwork of the two vehicles. If so, this should have alerted the truck driver that there was a chance that, maybe, something was possibly amiss. -- Ian |