Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 11:41
On the matter of enforcement.
Yes I agree that there should be more done about enforceing other than speeding, red lights and drink driving.
MMM...YEESSS.....and in QLD it does happen from time to time.
There is one location in a working class suburb I travel thru, where the police and transport inspectors regularly mount operations.
Ive seen the car pack packed with vehicles that have to be towed or fixed before they move any further.
Blokes with car trailer, tow trucks and even groups of
young fellas wheeling tyres down the street.
QLD transport and the coppers have mounted regular oppertions at the QLD NSW border turning back over weight caravans and illegal 4wds.
A year or two ago they mounted an operation comming off the beach at Teewar ( lot of the
fraser island traffic comes thru Teewar when the tides are right) at the end of a long week end.
They had heaps of 4wds parked up and having to be towed home...some of them as far as the NSW border...and that was on top of the hunderds of drive away offecneces they wrote.
My sister and her husband drive Tville-Bris-Tville fairly regularly....there are a coupe of transprt & police teams that make regular appaerances complete with mobile scales.
Far from unusual for there to be a mobil scale and transport inspection near the Witsunday turnoff...specifically trageting caravans during "turtle migration season".
As far as the tail gating cowboy truckers.....there seem to be less and less of those ......I've heard other heavy vehicle drivers give the cowboys a big ear full.
As far as the self righteous that try to enfrorce their own rules on truckies...like slowing down till they back off....fellas you are very likley to get ye heads punched in, or get ye self rear ended.
some of those agressive guys are still using marijuhuji, yippe beans or high doses of caffene and combined with their personal mental instability can not be relied upon to to behave anything like reasonably.
All it would take is for a gentile tap on your rear bumper and you are in the ditch and they are gone.
If they pass you then block the road...you have nowhere to go...they don't care if you have their number plate..its your word against theirs.
While there are less and less of the coyboy truckers out there...weeded out by company polocy, police checks and regular drug testing......there are still a small amount of people driving trucks you realy don't want to be on the bad side off.
Marijuana usage is still high in the transport industry, particularly outside the big companies.
One bloke I was doing some service work for, pulled in for his sheduled slot at Mt Isa in his road train...there was abloke there who had arrived way early for his slot ...he had driven Toowomba to Mt Isa direct with no breaks and looked real twichy.
For Gods sake...if one of these blokes is up your tail.....get out of the way, when it is safe to do so.....that is the safest thing you can do..
cheers
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Follow Up By: Tony H15 - Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:12
Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:12
So by your logic we should just let the bullish tactics of the cowboys go unchecked. IMO totally irresponsible. Fancy that, a different opinion that must be wrong - correct? For God's sake, be responsible, stand up, be a man!
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Follow Up By: The Bantam - Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:13
Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:13
A good example of how good enforcement has improved things the the Mulbrough stretch, between Rockampton & Mackay.
In times past it was a free for all with very little police enforcement.
You could be sitting on 120Kmh in the 110 zone ( the speed most traffic traveled at) and be passed like you where standing still.
Back before speed limiting was compulsory in heavy vehicles some of the trucks and busses traveled very quickly along there indeed.
Its 3 1/2 hours between towns.
These days there is a constant police presence on the Mulbrough stretch.
The general speed is just a shade over 110 in the 110 zone, and the amount of over taking is dramatially reduced.
Last trip I sat pretty well on the speed limit, didn't get held up by anything to be concerned about and only got passed twice in 3 1/2 hours.
The police presence is very visable.....commonly a prado and a bike......and they aren't being picky......but they seem to have plenty of work to do.
BTW they both carry UHF CB and they will speak to you if they feel the need.
cheers
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Follow Up By: The Bantam - Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:29
Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:29
Tony mate.
If you are doing those sort of things YOU are as gulity of a traffic offence as they are .....you can be booked for obstructing traffic or for dangerous driving.
All you are doing is making the problem worse.
You are not the police and you have no rights of enforcement.
Remember these guys have their opinion too....and they will be every bit as strong in their conviction.
The thing is they are bigger & ugglier than you and they probably care less about the consequences.
They could swat you with their back trailer, put you in the ditch and not feel a thing.....good luck getting a number plate.
Remember, you don't know who they are, what they are thinking or what drugs they have been on.
If they where reasonable people they would not be tail gateing you.
Get out their #$@!% way...they are dangerous.
The best place for em is disapearing into the distance.
cheers
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Follow Up By: Hairy (NT) - Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:47
Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 12:47
"Stand up and be a man"
Yeah wind the idiot up even more until he does something really stupid and kills you, and some poor family coming the other way oblivious to the whole situation.....Mmm real manly?
If you want to be manly ask him to pull over and sort it out off the road and don't involve everyone else.
Cheers
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