Ok so first and foremost a massive thank you to everyone who has watched and commented on this video over the last few days. There are far to many comments for me to reply to everyone at the moment. There are some mixed views on here now in the comments section with regards to this video. Anyhow this video was just a short clip taken from a much longer video called The Forth road bridge ( here is a link to the full video yeah ) kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHxq2cxmYMraodY.html I am no expert with regards to truck driving, and I have never claimed to be. Every day is still a school day for me. Cheers many thanx yeah

@Optikification

9 ай бұрын

Well as well has being a biker i have my HGV to and to be honest other drivers just do not understand trucks at all, they dont realize the blind spots you have or how wide you need to take corners etc. One of my pet hates is when a car just about to enter traffic lights slams on their breaks at amber not realizing the truck behind cannot stop on a dime. Defensive driving in a truck is a must yet other drivers need to be taught these things to.

@BeardieD

9 ай бұрын

Completely agree with everyone on the road being complete twats... including lorry drivers! My annoyance is when HGV's use the 'Coaches only' parking at services and my passengers have to walk from a dangerous part of the services area!

@martinsims1273

9 ай бұрын

My dad often used to say "You have to drive as though everyone's an idiot - everyone's not an idiot, but that's how you've got to drive".

@stephenbailey2761

9 ай бұрын

stop waving your arm everywhere, both hands should be on the wheel

@ChattingWithMeHGV

9 ай бұрын

@@stephenbailey2761 Says what law ?

"And they are probably good people...once they turn the ignition off".. You made my day 🤣🤣

The "Everybody is a twat" rule is my mantra when I'm riding my motorbike. Assume they'll do the most stupid manoeuvre, prep and position yourself accordingly and you get to live a bit longer. And give HGV's space and respect their limited visibility.

@mayfairblue

10 ай бұрын

thankyou as an hgv driver i am always looking out for everything' bikes even more' its nice to know people like you understand blind spots' enjoy you're bike mate

@simonthomas5367

10 ай бұрын

@@mayfairblue Thanks bud. Happy trails!

When I rode motorbikes I assumed that 50% of drivers hadn't seen me and the other 50% had seen me and wanted to knock me off.

As a hgv driver myself we read the road way before it happens because you have to plan ahead

@MorganLali

6 ай бұрын

Hello how are you

I've been driving since 1983 (cars, motorbikes and vans) and I've noticed a deterioration in the standard of driving across the board. No one wants to wait, give way, slow down or offer someone the road in a 50/50 situation. Unfortunately this includes truckers.

When I was riding motorbikes I used to think "what's the worst thing that driver could do and how do I avoid being squidged". Saved my life a few times thinking like that. They call it defensive driving.

I’m a trucker and I’ve noticed a deterioration in driving standards, no one indicates especially at roundabouts or keeps a safe following distance…

Typical HGV driver. As a rule of thumb, whatever a HGV driver tells you he earns, knock a third off and then you're closer to the true amount. Drivers like boasting about £50k earnings but very few actually ever earn anywhere near that. The ones that do earn 50k are doing 70-80 hrs per week and alternating 5/6 shifts pw and 4/5 nights away pw to get that money, no life balance whatsoever. I've worked in the industry for over 20 years and over 15 of those years have been spent on petrol/chemical and bitumen tankers, I've only touched £50k on a couple of occasions and it made me miserable, depressed and stressed because I was giving up my entire life to do it, not worth it at all, better off with £35k and an actual home, family and social life IMO. Most HGV drivers talk a lot of BS when It comes to money.

I'm cracking on in years, and recently decided to surrender my driving licence. The DVLA - clearly incapable of grasping that my action might simply be a question of choice and responsibility, demanded to know what medical condition had led to my decision. I simply replied that I'd come to my senses! There were some medical issues involved - none bad enough to seriously affect my driving. But the hard truth was - one day, out on the roads - I simply decided I'd finally HAD IT with the bad tempers and stupid behaviour of so many other drivers. Just sick enough of it all to decide I needed to live what's left of my life without the stress and aggravation of even a 10 mile trip to the supermarket. People seem concerned and nervous about the advent of driverless cars. Bring them on, I say. Hopefully they can be programmed not to be as selfish and bad tempered as human drivers.

@keithwright8045

9 ай бұрын

Imagine a dricerless truck, no thanks

That wobble box would have got my full Horns & light show! Best investment I made was a dash camera, stops any arguments then.

The reason most get anywhere near 50k is employers taking piss with hours and nights out. Money aint great if you've got to work all the hours god sends

My Dad gave me the same advice when I passed my car test. “Treat ever other driver as an idiot and you’ll never be disappointed “

The main reason they earn 50K is because they do 60+ hours per week. (At that hourly rate the salary for normal hours is approx 28K)

It's when they try to overtake another truck going 2 MPH slower than they are talking 2 miles to do so at 57 MPH.

I'm a very long van driver and kind of know how he feels. It's madness how people will fly in front of you to save 20 seconds but won't set off just 1 min earlier.

My Dad said to me when i was a young man, “Son” he said “Son, if you presume everyone else on th road is an idiot, you won’t go far wrong” and do you know what, best advice ever!! 🤣

@williamgardner2739

9 ай бұрын

Yes that`s true as long as you don`t put yourself on the idiot list.

@slideybackfast

9 ай бұрын

@@williamgardner2739 And furthermore, accept that you never know everything and that every day is a learning opportunity on the road. Also, if you are a better driver, then use your additional skills to think for those less fortunate and avoid situations. :)

That was the family friendly version of what I was taught as a student motorcyclist. When I got my HGV the only difference was they were a little more reluctant to drive themselves into you. I enjoyed your video, mate. It's nice to see there's still someone out there who knows what "lane discipline" is.

Great to hear that Fred Dibnah has in fact not passed on, and is seeing out his days as a trucker, however, his language has entered a downward spiral since becoming regular greasy spoon visitor, but good to see he still displays the common sense and no nonsense attitude we all know and love him for. 😊

I apply the exact same advice on my motorbike. In a hgv assume everyone is a twat so you don't kill them. On a motorbike assume that everyone is a twat so you don't get killed by them.

Thank you for being a considerate motorway lorry driver 😊 There are SO many whk tailgate and deliberately bully 😢

An you wonder why there is a shortage who an why would you won’t to do this job 🤔 Full credit to this Hgv driver an his mannerisms well done you there’s not many of us left

@truthseeker7794

10 ай бұрын

There's no shortage and many of them are terrible drivers but many are good. I think they've improved lately mainly because of better driver training.

Well said Barry. My father 50 years ago god rest his soul. " 50% of driving is anticipation, anticipate what the other twat might do"

Nothing but respect for the people driving these rigs. World would come to a halt without you.

I had a Polish driver tailgating me with his HGV truck in an average 50mph roadworks at the bottom of the M3 Chandlers Ford and Eastleigh when I needed the middle lane for Portsmouth and Southampton East. Right up the boot of the car repeatedly flashing the headlamps instructing me to move out of his way. I was already in the split of the lanes when he did this. So there was no way I was going to the M27 Bournemouth and the M271 for Southampton docks to please him. I stayed in the lane so he cut around me on the right hand lane in lane 3 then deliberately cut me up with the length of the trailer almost taking the front wing off by cutting in close on me. As he was doing that an Audi A3 decided to swing from the left to the right across the M3 junction where it divides the two M27 directions up and the pair nearly clapped in the middle. I held back and watched the fun. Swearing, middle fingers, brake testing, air horns, the Audi did me a favour. Not many times I wish bad things upon my fellow DigiTacho users but he deserved it. The Polish truck driver treated me as if I am an average worthless little 'Car' but didn't realise I am also a professional CPC holder and driver. He was also towing a trailer with Polish plates on the tractor and UK plates on the trailer.

I was always taught to treat everyone on the road as a total idiot until they prove otherwise!

It always makes me laff when people think truckers are on big money,those that are generally work nearly twice as many hours as a person with a 9 to 5 job, and away all week so when you actually break it down most are on piss poor wages sorry to say and yes i drive an artic for a living 😐

I totally agree with you, every other vehicle is a potential hazard, and they don’t realise you can’t stop or react as quick as they can. £50k isn’t enough for the responsibility that you have. Stay safe 👍🏼.

And lorry drivers think that indicators gives them the right to change lanes. Wrong. It is signalling your intention, so wait until a gap appears instead of trying to force a car off the road that is overtaking you. Simples.

@michaeledwards427

9 ай бұрын

And car and van drivers that think it's perfectly acceptable that when they overtake a hgv to cut in front of it drastically reducing the hgvs stopping distance, instead of staying in the lane they were in, or cutting across at the very last second to come off at a motorway junction, invariably not just one car doing this on a motorway but lots of them following each other, despite having warning signs a mile back. Alot of car drivers have no idea of their atrocious driving because they've never seen it from our view point. Whereas truck drivers obviously drive cars as well, so we get the car drivers view point as well. Please don't think I'm looking at truck drivers with rose tinted specs either, as I'm fully aware there are some right dick heads out there, who don't care about any other drivers, in cars or trucks. This is either down to bad training and/or being overworked by an uncaring and unknowing management.

@gistus123

9 ай бұрын

You’ve never sat behind the wheel of a 44 tonne truck, so sit down. Simples.

@MrAth69

9 ай бұрын

I drive coaches, completely concur with all that's been said! I'd just like to mention to the car drivers, blind spots! On both trucks and coaches, they're huge! You may think the driver is being a bully when, in fact, they probably haven't even seen you!!!!

@WetLettuce-kc2qm

9 ай бұрын

@@MrAth69 It's a truck driver's responsibility to monitor his blind spots at all times. It's not anyone else's responsibility. If you check your mirrors continually you won't have a problem. If it's too difficult for you, you need a new career.

I found learning how to ride motorbikes made me a far better car driver.

50k in a dream when asleep after an 80 hour week.

Absolutely cracking mate, keep the great trucking going 🚚👍

Treating everyone else on the road as a twat has done me no harm for 30 years on the road - in fact its an increasingly accurate statement. I have never driven a HGV but like yourself I'm always looking several hundred yards ahead of me so if a situation is developing i have time to react in a way that doesn't end in the inattentive driver behind smashing into the back of me.

Excellent. I agree with your philosophy! I’m always considerate of hgv drivers. I do see many though, that drive too close behind others, overtake and don’t have the speed or momentum then hold up the number two lane for miles. A couple of days ago I had to hold back in the number three lane to wait for a a wide load with a small house on its back, that didn’t have speed of momentum to pass (in high winds!) the hgv in number one lane. For ages he held in number 2 with his load overhanging number three. Shocking.

Interesting to see how the other side lives! Motorcyclists are taught to consider all car drivers incompetent, resentful and distracted fools. Interesting that HGV drivers agree!

As an HGV1 thirty years ago I got £15.50p per hour for 40 hours. O/T time and a half. Sunday double time. Now? £13.00 per hour. The living standards of working people have destroyed over the last 30 years

I took my driving test in the 70s in West Germany in a LWB Land Rover. My examiner said, "You've passed but , you're a little bit cautious. You drive as though everyone else on the road is out to kill you." I replied; "Are you saying they're not?" His response? "Fair point."

Unfortunately not all HGV drivers are so considerate, experienced and mindful. I was run off the road on a roundabout by a HGV who decided that he was going to have the inside lane (cut me up) regardless of the fact that my car was already in that lane (correctly). Luckily I could mount the grassy area of the roundabout just before the bridge holding the flyover in place, managed to stop my car in time and I was being followed by my partner who witnessed the event.

@cornishalps9870

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like the hgv didn't have enough space to make the turn. They should have waited.

When my dad taught me to drive over fifty years ago he said there are only two rules in driving ,treat everyone else as an idiot and don’t drive where you can’t see ,it’s done me well!

NA63 GZP must have forgotten he was towing a caravan!!

I use the motorways all day every day. I’m amazed at how close trucks drive to the vehicles in front. And truck drivers on phones? I see so many…..

@martinsims1273

9 ай бұрын

Truck drivers on phones. I second that! Only a couple of days ago I was a passenger on a long distance bus, and as we drew alongside a big truck (on the motorway, at speed), I was sat at about the same level as the truck driver, and I watched him as he regularly took 1hand off the wheel to type messages on his phone in it's dashboard holder, and kept turning to look at his phone.

@lowcostfish

9 ай бұрын

​@@martinsims1273I'm always tempted to take a picture and send it to the police when i see that. They don't take lorry drivers on their phones lightly.

That skip driver must have been on a promise

Clearly the rates have gone up then. Drove artics for 15 years for £10 per hour. Its why I dont drive them now

@jacobs3031

10 ай бұрын

£10 per hour 😂 I'm paid more emptying bins.

@stevendavis7079

10 ай бұрын

@@jacobs3031 Disgraceful isnt it. Haven't driven one for 8 years and never will again.

@jacobs3031

10 ай бұрын

@@stevendavis7079 I was offered training to get my class 2 but couldn't be arsed. Doesn't really interest me now looking back I should of done a trade as these jobs are all dead end regardless.

@jacobs3031

10 ай бұрын

All the rules and regulations put me off as well seen a lot bending the rules don't want to be in that situation.

I was a HGV driver for 35yrs and in all that time I never meet a driver that was on 50k a Yr.

@justliveandletlive

10 ай бұрын

He's talking about now. There are a few on that money (I know some). They certainly won't be working for Stobarts (Culina). You don't get that sort of money for 40 hours but what truck driver works only 40 hours nowadays? Truck drivers contracts are at best 45 hours. Most are 50 hours or even 55 hours. The WTD was designed to stop drivers working too many hours but transport companies immediately jumped on the 13 hour maximum day, 11 hour minimum daily break and 45 minute driving break and made it the norm. It's called free market capitalism. More profit at the expense of workers.

50K a year. I don't know any truck driver getting anywhere near that. The only ones that come close are fuel tanker drivers.

@fluggaenkoecchicebolsen

9 ай бұрын

Film and TV tech trucks - £52k a year, car transporters - £60k, STGO cat 1/2 £55k and STGO cat 3 - £70k. There’s a few that pay high but they’re not your normal home every day jobs. Fuel tankers maybe £18-£20 on agency per hour but employed ones aren’t that much - Hoyer were advertising £37k last time I looked which is high for day shift.

@ehboutdoors6820

9 ай бұрын

Bulk powder tanker 53k. They're about.

@OtisSollinger

9 ай бұрын

U aint asked many then

@johnthelwell3244

9 ай бұрын

@@fluggaenkoecchicebolsen I am a retired fuel tanker driver. 5 years ago most jobs were 40k plus. You can't just work days for Hoyer. You have to follow their shift pattern. Their drivers are on a lot more than 37k.

@polsick

9 ай бұрын

Bitumen drivers 50k plus

50k a year!?, yeah right

@honours1980

10 ай бұрын

Yeah l was thinking that!

@Nickbaldeagle02

10 ай бұрын

Yes. I'm getting that. £20.72 an hour plus £54 per day Saturday and Sunday premium. 45 hours a week. Do the maths.

@mrt3976

10 ай бұрын

@@Nickbaldeagle02 good for you

Fifty grand a year?! Who the hell you working for? HGV driving is not the good earner it used to be and I don't know any trucker earning that much, 30- 35 grand if they're lucky and doing stupid hours with no social or family life, poor physical and mental health

Came across this randomly, what a video mate. had me in stitches!

Love it! I drive a car thinking exactly the same about everyone else. 😂 There are those of us car drivers that absolutely appreciate what you do for the rest of us, especially over the past few years when things have been hectic. So thank you, and mad respect.

@H8me_

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, I like many other HGV drivers appreciate it. 🤝

@DylRicho

10 ай бұрын

@@H8me_ No problem my friend!

50k a year to talk shit for 4 mins? ill take it, where do i apply?

If we all drove as if we were trying to be as nice as possible that’d be great, but instead it’s like some kind of secret race that everyone is in on.

27 years driving class one and last 10 years doing mainland europe and if I'm honest i actually hate coming back into the UK as the standard of driving is atrocious

I have always had respect for truck drivers to the point that I will always give way to them, no matter how far I am along the road to them. My dad was an artic driver in the days before computers, power steering, and trucks became miniature computers on 18 wheels. I used to drive a Bedford TK in the 80s and I loved it. I salute all artic drivers.

@numbnutz7832

10 ай бұрын

Needed spinach pop eye styleeee to push and pull. And double de clutch on some serious gearboxes. Best box, Eaton twin splitter. Most steering wheel attendants wouldn’t know what a clutch and a gearstick is in a lorry, never mind seen one. £50k a year. No chance. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ChattingWithMeHGV

10 ай бұрын

@numbnutz7832 I've driven a Scania 112 with full clutch and manual gear box, and to be perfect honest with I would much rather have a modern truck with full automatic gearbox and all mod com technology............ And if your being really honest so would all of you boring old back in the day brigage, with your outdated views and comments regarding the younger generation of drivers. Given the choice you would all have a modern day truck any day of the week. Work smarter not harder !.

@wightangel

10 ай бұрын

@@ChattingWithMeHGV Yes I agree. Although I do miss doing the double clutch, I always thought that was so cool, in the same way As I love listening to air brakes. I know! I am sad.😂

@John-ob7dh

8 ай бұрын

@@numbnutz7832 I trained and passed my class 1 way way back in 73 on a Eaton twin speed .loved that box .Last one I had was a range change with 18 diff speeds. Was not too keen on that as still got a bit of a lump on my left thumb from years of lifting the gear change knob .

Good video, good driving, good chat. thanks mate

I drove buses in Manchester for nearly 8 years. I love your video.

@ChattingWithMeHGV

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@noelwilde

9 ай бұрын

@@ChattingWithMeHGV it was drummed into us to keep in lane. I’m retired and still drive my car like a bus 😜

Plot twist: they don’t get paid £50k

@leehammond203

9 ай бұрын

I drive fuel tankers, 4 day week, no weekends or bank holidays, my basic is £57k

@davidray2529

6 ай бұрын

Yeah we do 😅

As an ex class 1 ADR driver I absolutely 100% completely agree with you, my old instructor when I first started learning to drive cars said something that stuck with me forever, he said, “when you’re driving just remember that everyone else is complete and utter dickhead that will do whatever it takes to ruin your day, so that means you have to anticipate what drivers could possibly do 10 vehicles away in every direction and be ready to avoid them safely”. That’s stayed with me through my entire military driving career and saved my life once or twice too, when you see some of the people on the roads today you wonder how the hell they have a license in most cases. I’m no longer on the roads but, I don’t envy you heavy hauler boy having to deal with these idiots nowadays. Stay safe driver and keep ya head on a swivel 👍🇬🇧

@stephensmith799

9 ай бұрын

I’d love to be able to thank my car and m/cycle instructors and let them know they saved my life many times over. Thank you Mr Starbuck of Nottingham. So thorough I can still hear his voice as I drive through hazards. One thing that he said that stays with me is ‘He’s forgotten that he was a learner driver once!’ He’d say this whenever another driver got impatient. It comes back to me whenever I’m following a learners and I just hang back a good distance so they don’t get freaked.

My dad taught me that if you go driving with the thought that every driver could hit you well it’s makes you look out for potential problems/ accidents. We should have retesting every 5-10 years to get rid of really bad drivers. Great video mate Mandy southwest UK

Same as riding a bike, assume everyone wants to kill you! 😉

Bloody brilliant love your crack and videos . From wills and Catherine from alness in the Scottish Highlands. Keep making them 😂Great

Nice to have you back borathea missed your vlogs and that lancastrian twang !!

Driving standards are absolutely shocking these days even though the Test has got a lot harder since I passed in the 1980's. The amount of times I see roundabouts used incorrectly for instance.

“You’ve just gotta have that mindset that, everybody else around ya, is a complete twat.” Good advice.

Brilliant. . Well done Driver . . I believe. . Everyone taking a car exam should ride on a motorcycle and sit in the cab of a HGV . . . 👍👍

@ChattingWithMeHGV

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@johnjinn599

10 ай бұрын

Dont know about putting some morons in a wagon .But have said for years ,if you want a driving licence you should have to do 1000 miles on a motorcycle .It makes you so much aware of the road situations .

@Th3_Gael

10 ай бұрын

Said this for years

@a320nick

10 ай бұрын

Excellent idea

Great commentary drive, sensible sense of humour and my 100% agreement to the statements.

No idea where I could earn 50k driving HGV1 you must be working all the hours possible to achieve that figure! In 39 years HGV1 driving never been anywhere near that. It’s not rocket science driving articulated vehicles I’d go as far as to say once a person becomes experienced it’s no harder than driving a car

@cameronmcrae9768

9 ай бұрын

These days it’s near impossible. As soon as u get your hgv licence there’s only 1% of companies willing to hire

@bobbycrispy5459

9 ай бұрын

Agreed , most tradesmen don’t even get that and they really do have to work for there money , something far wrong if your getting 50 k a year driving lorries

It's amazing how many clueless car and van drivers get wound up when you split lanes thinking that your hogging the road when you're actually trying to prevent an accident because your trailer will swing out and catch them or they will end up on your front bumper

The Peter Kay of HGV 😂😂😂❤

Its nice to see an HGV driver driving with a bit of commen sence .90 % of so called professional drivers are worse than anything you have just highlighted .They are always in a rush ,and bully anything in there way .

@ChattingWithMeHGV

10 ай бұрын

That's a good point. There are a few BAD truck drivers out there.

@aquanick2001

10 ай бұрын

90% are bad according to you? Oh please stop talking out your arse, the majority have more driving ability in their little finger than you posses in your entire body.

This is quality. Way better attitude than most dash cam channels. One example I use is that one day someone in front of you will stop for no apparent reason. It’s up to you how close you are to them. I think most people just think “well they shouldn’t be stopping”. I’ve used that roundabout a lot and generally everyone is usually good but you’ve got to be ready just incase.

I have a substantial history of driving, though not artics. Total respect for you guys, I'm certainly to old to have the patience to do it now. My neighbour got her 1st car the other day and said her teacher told her to consider everyone else to be stupid. I answered that I have never done that, I always consider everyone, including myself, to be about to make a mistake. That way for one, if you make a mistake yourself you're more ready for it, and two, if someone else makes a mistake it doesn't annoy you so much, and it's easier to keep smiling.

I recognize the roundabout at Hermiston Gait and going onto the bypass on Edinburgh South ,its a trickey roundabout and the driver did really well ,well driven my man 😀😀😀

Brilliant posting! excellent advice, I agree 100%. I always have huge respect for LGV / HGV drivers. I doubt if I could drive something as long / heavy/ potentially dangerous as that. Respect guys!

@deadpoet62

10 ай бұрын

With training you probably could do it, it’s not for everyone as it’s a totally different way of driving compared to a car but with practice & experience you would be amazed how accomplished you would be. Trucks are so much safer now & mostly auto boxes i think?

Yes, the standard of driving on UK roads is LITERALLY SHOCKING (especially in relation to tailgating)!!! It's as though the masses have a death-wish - not just for themselves, but for others around them too!!! It's mind-boggling!!! They should NOT BE ALLOWED anywhere near a vehicle unless they can stop their CRAP driving and behave like responsible adults!!!

@lolitapitpong3826

10 ай бұрын

Yeah they should make the test way harder, there’s too many idiots on the road

@trevorm1799

10 ай бұрын

@@lolitapitpong3826 AGREED!!

Totally agree with everything you said.... StaySafe

I get paid the same to look busy in an office

£50k is not enough. And I totally agree, you have to assume everyone is a twat 😂

When I learned to drive more than 50 years ago, I was told that everyone else on the road is an idiot, and that served me driving all sorts of vehicles until my health stopped me driving.

Rules of driving safely by a self taught learner. 1, Assume nobody knows what they are doing ( be as obvious as possible!) 2, Always command your space and then keep twice the amount of space. 3, let people do their thing. If they intrude on you, create space again and carry on. 4, if you can't see them, assume they havent seen you.

@ChattingWithMeHGV

9 ай бұрын

Indeed.

Not all hgv drivers earn 50k. My husband earns a lot less and with the hours he works it most probably works out below minimum wage.

@Ggbdhbijber

9 ай бұрын

He needs to change job then

@MrLPetronis

9 ай бұрын

He either is a absolute mug or you guys live up the sticks.. 😂

Just classic, you gotta laugh at the running commentary.

I do a few things, but the thing I do best is drive. I don't drive a HGV, just a small van, but I am really good at it. I stick to the law, the limits, and have really good anticipation skills. I've been driving 47 years, and the one thing that people remark on is that I never get road rage. There's a reason for this... I think 95% of all the people I meet in life are complete twats, so when I am on the road, I expect that to remain the same - hence I'm never surprised at what they do.

I'm glad someone actually acknowledges the state of our roads. I work in Birmingham.. accessing the M6 toward Coventry (Lane 2 exit) is a pig, every car uses lane 3 to cut in at the last second (signs for over a mile), all lanes come to a stop at that point...selfish people who cause mayhem every day

Great stuff - really enjoy - nothing but respect for HGV drivers.

I do not understand how people can drive that close to another car or lorry, especially a lorry. Maybe I'm odd but I like to hang further back from lorries so I can see down the side of the lorry and see ahead.

I must say i found this ironic considering the way most HGV's travel in convoy a few feet apart.

@ChattingWithMeHGV

9 ай бұрын

Rodger dodger rubber ducky 10 4

@ChattingWithMeHGV

9 ай бұрын

@stevenyoung1999 The only horn I have is a hard on for 5th wheel grease

Great video and respect ! Does help being higher up to get a good view of what’s going on.

@cypeman8037

10 ай бұрын

No, why should it? I’ve also never understood the military thinking that during battles they need to capture the high ground, why? 🙄

@AdamGoodman4U

10 ай бұрын

@@cypeman8037 IF you capture the high ground, you can oversee the enemy, and they have to fight UPHILL to attack you.

50K a year for HGV drivers is shit… the long hours, the appalling services on motorways, the way you get treated at places, the list is endless! I did 30 years of international driving, started with GH then went on to Porsche supercup based in Germany, then F1 with Willys, RB & finished at the FIA…. Loved driving the fantastic race transporters but as for driving here in the UK in a truck for 50K a year I wouldn’t bother getting out of bed!

@Nickbaldeagle02

10 ай бұрын

The hours aren't long. They're 60 minutes just like for everyone else. Plus motorway services are lovely places these days.

Well said barry, I remember my driving instructor telling me that years ago

Thank you for the video. I approach driving the same way and I drive a car. I always try to anticipate stupidity and am never disappointed! Have a good day from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

Now let's talk about the genius truck drivers who drive 90.5 km/h and take over other trucks driving 90 km/h, blocking two-lane highways for 20 minutes for everyone else. Just to arrive at the next truck stop 45 seconds earlier. Happens all the time in Germany, for example. I think this behavior has a measurable impact on the gdp in terms of wasting everyone's time and causing traffic jams for no feckin reason

@ChattingWithMeHGV

9 ай бұрын

I have done in this short clip kzread.info/dash/bejne/qHpmxtino8uem84.html

Bus/coach driver (retired), 45yrs behind the wheel and agree with your thinking, you have to constantly think what is this clown about to do.

Luv ya pal. Great drivin n great commentary. Keep going mate

@ChattingWithMeHGV

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

Spot on. Have been driving HGVs 40 years next year. This is our daily experiece on the roads of the UK. The standard of driving is getting worse. Treating others like twats is the only way i am sorry to say

My Dad used to tell me that when he was teaching me to drive, but he used a stronger word than that! My son is a long-time driver of double-decker artics too and the stoties he tells of other road users make my hair stand on end! Keep posting the vids my friend, you are carrying out a public service!

Spot on my son - I do wonder just how many have never taken a test!!!

I had a hgv for 30 years, I finally had enough 2 years ago, too much road rage, road works, congestion, and in cab technology beeping and buzzing at you...

@stevedawson256

9 ай бұрын

Me and you both Richard I've had over 40 years of it , glad I'm out of now , used to be a good crack but not any more

I never knew Paddy McGuiness could drive a truck.

50 grand a year lmfao class 1 in London area from £13 per hour, if you want to work 15 hour days and live in a cab all week and have no quality of life, save up 5 grand do your hgv and try to get a decent job with no experience, don’t take my word for it look at indeed and find the reality

I only drive rigids, but definitely agree. Amazing how much people are willing to risk just for being a few seconds ahead. The number of times I've had people in a town or city using the wrong lane just to squeeze in-front of me, then for quite a distance afterwards, I've just been right behind them, so what they gained equates to sweet naff all! They probably are the greatest folks anyway, out of their vehicle, but in it I think your description sums them up pretty well!