Anyone who thinks they are a perfect driver, clearly isn’t. The perfect driver does not exist. Every driver is a human being (although some I’ve seen I’m not too convinced are human). Human beings make mistakes. There are exceptionally good drivers, but no such thing as a perfect one.

What about one of the local air museums?

All of which makes bad LGV and HGV driving inexcusable and worthy of severe criticism.

I’m sorry, I never realised the perfect driver existed until I read from you. 😀

Most numpties in cars pass a test and then never have any extra tuition, assessment etc of their driving. That is one of the main problems with car drivers generally. They pick up bad habits and these are never corrected. LGV drivers now have to pass a rigid and then an artic practical as well as a theory test too and the penalties for lorry drivers can be severe. VOSA pick on lorry drivers more than car drivers. A car driver using a mobile phone gets a small fine and a fgew points. A lorry driver, for example, doing the same in a lorry can have the Traffic Commisioner remove his LGV licence altogether. LGV drivers in general are highly trained, highly competant, plan further ahead, read the road better and have more skills than the averge driver, especially the mum on the school run.

exactly the same as p**s poor british drivers blaming foreign truckers for the large amount of accidents here

Have you ever seen a forign lorry driver at a roundabout though? Where a UK trucker can look out of his window and see traffic, in a forieign lorry the area behind the right hand side window is a blind spot. So they just keep creaping and creaping out and hope people will let them go. If you don’t have clear visibliity, you shouldn’t be driving the vehicle.

Load of foreign (non-English) speaking drivers stop their lorries in the middle of a busy roundabout to ask UK truckers for directions. Yeah, like that’s safe! There are also loads of foreign truckers now driving UK registered trucks (where I worl there are 6 or 7) and some of them drive like nutters.

In certain other countries, if you can drive a tractor and trailer in a straight line forwards and backwards, you get a licence then just come to the Uk and cause chaos.
Forign truckers (until VERY recently) just jump red lights, speed etc knowing that the DVLA is exclusive to the UK and therefore by the time a ticket is produced they are back in their own country. It’s like a licence to make spped cameras flash with no punishment.

If foreign truckers can speak NO English, how can they read road warnings etc? In Grantham there are low bridges regularly hit by foreign truckers. The solution? I seems that the council think writing LOW BRIDGE in 6ft high yellow letters will stop it happening. NO it doesn’t, it wouldn’t matter if there was a 100ft neon sign cos if you can’t speak the language then you canlt read the sign!

I have been a white van man in London, a motorcyclist, a taxi driver, and an LGV driver trained to excellent standards by the IAM. I have been driving for 22 years all over the world, as far away as Australia, have driven upto 100,000 a year and have never had an accident where I was deemed to be at fault. I have however, lost count of the number of car drivers I have pulled out of burning or ditched cars and feel I am therefore in a position as a professional driver to comment on the driving attitudes of others. As regards statistics, they can be misread or manipulated. Like the police love the message SPEED KILLS. No it doesn’t. Inappropriate speed kills. Outside a school at 3am in a 30MPH limit, a speed camera will catch you driving at 35. However, a gereatric in a Morris Minor driving past a school at 3pm on a school day, in driving rain, head in the glovebox is considerably more danger. Statistics are not always right.

Speed cameras are just a money making scam, nothing more. The reason there are less accidents where there a cameras is because drivers LOOK where they are going, to look for cameras rather than looking in the glovebox, changing CD’s etc.

There are also several police class 1 (Volvo) drivers in my town who have smashed up cars through bad driving and then blamed road conditions for it. I trust the police less than solicitors……………and I don’t trust solicitors one bit.

If speed kills, how come motorways are safer roads than any other?

What happened to the old rule that if you run into the back of the vehicle in front you’re to blame? Or does merely pushing that vehicle for several miles not count?

HGV drivers are getting worse these days – they hog the outside lanes for far too long on the A14 indulging in a little bit of, what the Germans call, “Elefantrennen” (elephant racing) for miles because they are trying to overtake with only a couple of MPH advantage! They are using mobile phones, eating their lunch, reading ‘delivery notes’ all while steering several tons of vehicle along crowded routes (I have seen all of these examples first hand on the few miles of A14 around Cambridge)…

How the hell he didn’t notice something or take heed of other drivers warning him is beyond me. Maybe it is a case of DWA!! Driving without due care and attention should have been considered for the tanker driver, and the car driver if she was considered to have carried out an “ill-advised manoeuvre”…

Ridiculous……

Try driving a lorry and you will see loads more bad car drivers than lorry drivers. As a lorry driver myself I assure you we are highly trained. I am a memebr of the IAM, have taken driving tests for rigid (class c) and artic (class c+e) and have regular assessments. My opinion is that he was in her blind spot, which only occurs when someone does not look in their mirrors properly. All those who constantly slag off lorry drivers (who are highly trained and highly skilled) should spend the day with one and see the numpies we have to deal with all the time. If you are so sure lorry drivers have it easy, how about you climb inot an artic now, with a 44ft trailer, weighing over 40 tonnes that is 16 ft high and show us how it’s done. I can reverse a large artic where most old car drivers cannot stick a car. If all us lorry drivers took two weeks holiday off together the country would stop. No food, no petrol, nothing to buy in shops, no clothes, drinks, fags, petrol, nothing. There are loads of lorry drivers in this country and the law of averages says that there wil be a certain amount who are not very good, as with everything in life. The lorry driver was exonerated from crashing into a woman who pulled out into his path, without checking it was clear, without concentrating. If he was a motorbike rider instead, he wouldn’t be around to be on trial anyway. So all you lot who constantly slag us off, keep a lookout for an HGV taster day, and go to an old airfield, jump in a large goods vehicle and show us that we are all doing it wrong and you can do it better!!!!!!!!!!

It seemed Gordon and David just acted like children blaming each other’s parties previous failings. Nick Clegg came across as ok, but he’s married to a solicitor (like Tony Blair was). Lib Dems are all for the Eu so they lose my vote immediately. I’ll be voting for a party who puts British People first, brings back capital punishment for paedophiles, brings back the cane in schools and spends OUR money on us, not some ethnically diverse pathetic project.
Labour and Tories are both the same, they’ve done nothing for me in the past and seem to give loads of benefits to lazy people, Lib Dems are Eu lovers, Gennes want to put MORE tax on fuel etc.
Mr Griffin, you have my vote!